Job Description

The Senior Financial Analyst has the responsibility of providing intermediate and advanced support through all phases of the financial planning and analysis processes, including business partnering and working on cross functional projects. The SFA is a detail-oriented and strategically minded individual of the finance team able to perform a variety of financial activities including planning, analysis, budgeting, and reporting. The SFA should also have strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills and be able to present financial information and models in a concise and easily comprehensible manner.

Support the execution of financial planning and analysis processes, projects, and ad-hoc requests as required by the Finance organization by embracing the following responsibilities: Provide support on the analytical, forecasting, month end and variance analysis reporting and Ad Hoc projects based on business needs
Provide intermediate/advance support to the preparation of the monthly reports and variance analysis that will help identify key focus areas for management, in a timely manner
Provide intermediate/advance support to the input of forecast and budget projections and adjustments into Moody’s financial reporting system
Provide intermediate/advance support to business planning processes and deliverables: forecast, budget, 5 year strategic plan, etc. Deliver driver based presentational outputs for discussion with senior management.
Partner with the local, regional and global contacts and communicate effectively with the business to foster good working relationships with the rest of the organization
Provide support on the development of new reporting solutions and identifying key focus areas for management
Recommend and implement best practices for enhancements to current processes and reporting, including identifying area’s for productivity and driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies
Conduct financial KPIs analysis, compare anticipated and actual results, conduct thorough research of historical financial data and trends to identify and recommend areas of improvement to offer value added insights into drivers
Develop and update financial models to assist in strategic initiatives and support critical decisions through financial projections and KPIs
Provide informal guidance or on the job training to other team members
Collaborate in special projects as assigned by Finance management

 

Qualifications

Studying towards post-graduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, Statistics or other quantitative field (e.g. MBA, CPA/CA, CIMA, ACCA)
3 – 5 years of relevant experience in Financial Planning or equivalent. Analysis processes, modelling, business intelligence tools, and data science experience is a plus
Excellent verbal & written English skills
Preferable with exposure to multidimensional reporting applications is essential (e.g. Hyperion Planning and Essbase)
Detail and data quality oriented and capable to summarize and effectively communicate findings/analysis to senior stakeholder management
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (preferably: Office 365), financial modeling and related financial systems
Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
Intermediate knowledge of basic accounting concepts
Key Competencies:
Desire to learn new skills with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges
Great attention to detail and able to cross check outputs with other data sources, complete recurring processes avoiding error
Able to work both independently and as a member of a team by interacting and collaborating with members of other teams across the organization
Demonstrates flexibility with last minute changes in commitments, deadlines, and meetings attendance
Applies knowledge and intermediate problem solving techniques to define and resolve problem
Able to handle large volumes of data while ensuring data accuracy, including the ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to draw conclusions and assist on decision making
Able to provide intermediate/advanced support to the business planning processes and deliverables