Financial Analysis - Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial analysis. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Analysis Associate in our Finance team, you will be responsible for expense and headcount budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, and variance analysis, delivering actionable insights against targets. You will own MBR/EMR management reporting and executive storytelling, build business cases, and support ad-hoc analytics to drive efficiency, with strong understanding of allocation/indirect tech cost methodologies. Leverage Excel/PowerPoint and advanced analytics tools (Alteryx, Tableau, SQL, Databricks; Python) and contributes to Data Lake/Data Mesh initiatives to improve governed, self-service reporting for stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities:

• Handle expense and headcount budgeting, reporting, forecasting and analysis.
• Analyze variances, trends, risks, opportunities, and performance against budget, forecast, and targets; identify key business drivers and sensitivities.
• Deliver month-end results, the forecast for the remainder of the year, and the budget for future years.
• Accountable in developing management reporting (MBR / EMR) and enhancing the financial reporting and business analysis framework; Understand the key drivers of the results and accordingly presenting commentary.
• Support ad-hoc financial analysis for key functional areas and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Create financial business cases supporting business initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Allocation methodology and Indirect technology expenses allocated to technology and business units.
• Translate financial data into clear executive-ready storylines, highlighting drivers, risks, and actions.
• Building and maintaining advanced workflows and dashboards using Alteryx, Tableau, SQL and Databricks.
   

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Chartered Accountant/ MBA (Finance) (or similar educational background) with 5+ years of post-qualification experience
• Strong financial analytical skills – Fusion of Finance and Data Capabilities
• Excellent partnering skills, Ability to multi-task and work autonomously within team environment
• Ability to research issues/problems and provide a ‘solution-based’ approach
• Experienced partnering in either a Finance and/or Business Management capacity and providing insights/recommendations to senior management
• Confident and personable attitude with the ability to face off with senior management at all levels, influence/handle difficult messages, problem solve, and resolve conflicts
   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, Alteryx, Python, SQL will be added advantage 
• Improved user experience for reporting and analysis by helping onboard domains to the Data Mesh and publishing well-governed datasets from the Data Lake.