Senior Finance Analyst

Technical Skills

• Should be well versed in MS Office
• Should have Advance MS Excel skills (including power query)
• Experience of Workday and Adaptive preferred

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication skills (should be able to communicate well with UK, US or APAC counterparts)
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Willing to be flexible with shift work
• Should be a self-starter
• Good team player

Education Qualification

• Commerce graduate with intermediate pass of CA/CWA or MBA (Finance)

Person specification

• Must be comfortable working in UK or APAC working hours
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced team environment to meet deadlines
• Must be able to analyze, communicate, facilitate, prioritize, escalate, and resolve issues
• Strong written and verbal communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Analytical and creative bent of mind with proactive approach to business problem solving

Responsibilities

• Month-End Support: Assist the Finance Manager with month-end overhead results, maintaining daily reporting files, and preparing various journals to finalise the monthly P&L.
• Compliance and Accuracy: Ensure transactions comply with audit requirements, maintain accurate documentation, and manage cost center mappings.
• Invoice Tracking: Keep a monthly tracker for third-party costs and resolve issues with purchase orders and invoicing errors.
• Purchase Orders: Request purchase orders for finance and group overheads, and maintain a relevant tracker.
• Reporting and Analysis: Support monthly functional reporting, variance analysis, and assist with budget/forecast preparation.
• Periodic Finance Activities: Handle tasks like worker costing allocation corrections, cost center creations, work closely with Shared service center on variety of activities
• Documentation and Process Improvement: Document processes, update them when improvements are made, and provide support for year-end audits.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Meet stakeholder expectations, participate in decision-making meetings, and manage purchase orders for finance and group overheads.
• Support the Finance Manager in the delivery of month end overhead results within the timeline requested.
• Maintaining Daily Reporting file for month end
• Prepare and post various prepayment, accrual and reclass journals in order to finalise the monthly P&L
• Ensure accuracy and compliance of the transactions with regard to audit compliance, back up calculations/documentation, cost centre/service line mappings, chart of accounts etc.
• Maintain a monthly invoice tracker of the overhead function third party costs
• Follow up with PTP and business partners to resolve any issues with incomplete purchase orders and invoicing errors identified as part of the monthly review.
• Support the Finance Manager with monthly functional reporting and variance analysis of staff costs and third party spend levels against budget/forecast.
• Process various periodic finance activities for example, capitalization, Worker costing allocation corrections, Cost Center creations etc.
• Assist Finance Manager in the preparation of budget/forecast, loading and maintaining accurate data in Adaptive Insights tool.
• Ensure process are documented and updated when improvements are implemented.
• Meet the stakeholder expectations and participate in all decision making/review meetings.
• Provide supporting documents for year-end audit as required.
• Request Purchase Orders (for Finance and Group Overheads) and maintain relevant tracker.

Responsibilities

• 5+ years’ experience in Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis
• A bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• Experience and expertise in effectively using financial accounting tools such as Workday, Adaptive Insights is a plus.
• Knowledge & awareness of statutory compliances and updates
• Must have extremely strong MS Excel skills.
• Strong understanding of strategic business processes
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving aptitude
• Financial modelling expertise is a plus.
• Analyze current and past financial data and performance.
• Identify trends in financial performance and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Provide financial models and Budgeting & Forecasting
• Preparation of monthly Forecast report and Variance analysis report
• Coordinate with other members of the finance team to review financial information and forecasts.
• Prepare or deliver monthly client related operational P&L account and Balance sheet activity.
• Support Stakeholder by giving required information regarding business and other updates.
• Meet the stakeholder expectations and participate to all decision making/review meetings.
• Design templates and data collection to prepare the ad-hoc management reporting requirements.
• Prepare summary presentations to support the management decision making process.