Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:
1. Support Financial management, control and analysis of respective business managers
2. Provide Financial analysis and spend management for new and existing projects & Funding Requests (FR)
3. Initiate Financial management oversight and co-ordination of capital provisioning
4. Gather documentation, analysis, budget confirmation in collaboration with Project Managers, Sourcing Managers, Business Managers and IT Finance to handle FR execution and approval for Consulting, Software and Telecommunication services
5. Reconcile project related financials across the project portfolio including derivation of rates, monitoring actuals vs budget and determining project related corrective action where necessary
6. Execute monthly accrual analysis on regular and aging items, provide invoice approvals where necessary
7. Provide support to department managers for communication of technology agenda
8. Carry out tasks related to the job in accordance with the instructions of the supervisor
9. Improve current processes around financial analysis and tracking tasks

Must-have skills:
1. Strong analytical skills
2. Strong communication / interpersonal skills to be able to interact at all levels & be effective as part of a broader team of business managers
3. Accuracy and pay attention to details
4. Be available to answer questions and queries from local and remote team members and users in a timely fashion
5. Understand and adhere to the organization’s values
6. Minimum of 3+ Years working experience in a similar position
7. Organizational skills – work with a vast array of information from solicitation to analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information, able to manage multiple tasks as well as multiple clients, ability to work independently, occasionally under pressure and, be highly organized
8. Be a team player and have the ability to work individually
9. Escalate issues and risks to the supervisor in a timely fashion
10. Be able to effectively and actively ensure upward, downward peer communication of information and issues and risks
11. Excellent working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and Powerpoint

You might also have: (nice to have skills)
1. Experience in working in financial services / project management / technology
2. Project management background
3. Reporting background

Organization:
Technology works as a strategic partner with our Company’s business units and the world’s leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Our Company’s sizeable investment in technology results in cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients’ businesses and to our own.

The Technology & Operations COO (TOCOO) organization’s primary responsibility is to provide overall operational management services to our Technology & Operations division. It manages multiyear workforce strategies, responsible for budgeting and financial control, supervises product and service portfolios as well as spearheading large, firm-wide transformations. The Technology Resource Management (TRM) team is part of the Technology Business Management within TOCOO. It provides control and advisory services to support the life-cycle management and governance of over 15,000 external consultants.

We offer:
* To work with some of the best professionals in the business – for a firm that values individual intellect as much as teamwork
* State-of-the-art offices in the City Centre that are designed to maximize collaboration
* Flexible working arrangements (core hours and opportunity to work from home)
* Enriching challenges that provide opportunity for constant learning and advancement
* An environment which is leveraging technology to its highest potential