MI AND PLANNING ANALYST
The main responsibilities of this role are to provide MI and Planning support across European jurisdictions, delivering accurate, timely and meaningful reporting and analysis of performance for the Company. As support to the Head of Europe Finance and Country Finance Controllers, to contribute to the wider management of the Europe business.
Core Responsibilities:
- Prepare and deliver Flash and Final reporting results for the European jurisdictions.
- Preparation of comprehensive monthly MI reporting packs for the Europe jurisdictions, ensuring that MI processes and procedures are continuously improved.
- Work with wider Finance teams to deliver new initiatives and implement new and robust MI processes, systems and procedures to provide consistent, timely and focussed MI across Europe.
- To support the Europe finance teams by providing accurate, timely and meaningful planning, forecasting and analysis of business performance. A key element of this role will be to demonstrate the effective co-ordination of Forecasting and Planning across Europe.
- Work closely with Europe sites to complete the annual planning process, including pulling together detailed forecast inputs, and submitting forecast data into the TM1 finance planning system.
- Preparation of quarterly client and product profitability reporting for the Europe sites.
- Participate in profit improvement initiatives and development of new and improved methods for capturing and reporting client profitability.
- Provide appropriate ongoing support and client profitability analysis to Country Relationship managers to assist with pricing and planning decisions, and follow up action tracking on clients with less than satisfactory cost income ratios.
- Provision of monthly client profitability reporting as required to meet local business requirements.
- Production and delivery of assets reporting across the traditional and alternative product range, tracking changes in valuation from month to month and analysing the key reasons for changes in AUA.
- Deliver appropriate headcount reporting for the Europe sites in an appropriate level of detail to meet the business needs, covering both on and offshore positions including capacity reporting and relevant productivity ratios.
- Manage a tracking mechanism for Europe sites to understand the movement in headcount from period to period.
- Preparation of debtors reports and controllable cost reporting for Europe jurisdictions.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge of the securities market and the associated market infrastructure, with related MI implications.
- Respond to adhoc MI requests as required to meet Europe business requirements.
- Represent Europe Finance with authority in all MI dealings within the company.
- Participate in market infrastructure change initiatives, providing input from a MI perspective.
- Contribute to the achievement of target KPI's relating to the Fee Billing service.
Core Skills:
- Able to work in a pressurised environment, manage priorities effectively and see issues through to resolution.
- Strategic and creative thinker with excellent problem solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple Workstreams at the same time across different geographic locations.
- Personal qualities of stability, maturity and authority and an ability to work with staff at all levels.
- Relationship management and networking skills.
- Team player and people motivator and track record in delivering to demanding timescales.
- Excellent 360 degree communication skills and interpersonal skills both verbally and in writing.
Core Requirements:
- Experience and track record of successful delivery in an MI and planning environment.
- Strong academic and professional track record working toward or ideally having a relevant CCAB qualification.
- Advanced MS Office skills in particular Excel
- Experience of working in a global environment
- Proven experience in identifying and managing the risks, issues and dependencies related to complex projects.
- Sound knowledge of the securities industry and global market infrastructure.
Core-Asset Consulting offer specialist recruitment services to the Investment Banking, Financial Services, Secretarial Support, and Human Resources markets across Scotland.
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May 22, 2009
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