Job Purpose:
- The Senior Analyst will be the lead analyst responsible for analyzing Global ETFs financial and business results
- This role incorporates several key areas; responsible for Global ETFs financial reporting (across all regions, businesses, channels; across all scenarios, actuals, budget, forecast, prior year), and advancement of key analytics for executive management.
Your Responsibilities:
- Senior FP&A’s principal role will be the development, production and oversight of the financial reporting process and the related analysis
- Lead all reporting efforts supporting North America, EMEA and APAC, and other groups
- Development of financial analytics models and standard commentary platforms for BU teams
- Prepare monthly forecast, independently assess feasibility of financial results and collaborate on the optimal projection
- Supervise and train India Team (Bangalore) in consolidation and production of majority of analytics
- Market competitiveness metrics included where appropriate
- Developing process controls and checks to ensure accuracy of model results, and maintain hierarchy
- Support internal governing group that determines and approves all non-standard pricing agreements
- This would entail developing customized IRR-type tools for proper business and economic evaluation
- Leverage cognos finance owned data warehouse (revenue, sales, AUM), etc) application in development of superior analysis and reporting to drive business opportunities
- Contribute in development of data visualization (i.e. Tableau, Spotfire) tools for BU and Senior Management
- Prepare annual operating plan coordination and development of targets by region, channel, and product
- Play a leading role in SSGA Global ETFs Finance efforts to develop multi-year financial model, critical for strategic decision making
- Collaboration with Finance product profitability unit (CAPS), in order to fully maximize channel and client profitability tool
- Compiles ad-hoc reporting and completes special projects as assigned
- Assists SSGA Finance in building a culture of continuous improvement – critically examines and assesses reporting practices and suggests improvements wherever necessary.
Skills and Qualifications:
- 7 – 10 years of experience in accounting, finance or business analysis, preferably in financial services
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
- Progress towards completing an MBA or CFA preferred
- Background in financial controls and processes preferred
- Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to interact with senior levels
- Advanced model development and application of financial metrics (i.e. NPV, IRR, etc)
- Exhibits an exceptional standard of quality which includes attention to detail, organization, superior analysis and problem solving and accountability for excellent results
- Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity, change and a dynamic business environment
- Candidate needs to be a strong team player, self-starter who approaches work enthusiastically, demonstrates initiative and has the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Experience operating in an offshore/onshore team a plus
- Experience with Khalix, Cognos, Oracle and Essbase a plus
- Proficient with MS Office Suite; advanced Excel analysis skills (i.e. Vlookup, Pivot Tables, advanced graphing etc.), ACCESS and PowerPoint skills are required to succeed in the role.
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