Financial Analyst, Senior

The European Services FP&A team is a team of 10 positions located around Europe and Manila supporting a Professional Services organization with turnover exceeding $450M. As a Senior Analyst within this team, you will provide FP&A support to a professional services business unit, with a primary focus on the professional services part of Benelux and Emerging Markets countries.

You will support those regions’ Management teams to ensure the financial performance goals of each of the Business Units and Company are met. The position will support the FP&A Senior Director and business management with business planning, financial reporting, forecasting and P&L analysis.

The position reports to the FP&A Senior Director supporting the EMEA theatre for professional services.

Key Responsibilities

• Personally responsible for all financial reporting and performance analyses for assigned businesses :

• Revenue complete and accurate, with a focus on Project revenue (T&M, FF, Managed Services)

• Understanding personnel and bonus costs

• Headcount is correctly reported (HCM up to date)

• Managing the month end financial reconciliation process and explanation of variances against expectations for the supported Business Unit

• Provide High quality, timely and accurate analysis for the supported Business unit by month/quarter/year monitoring performance against key business KPIs.

• Support reporting on various P&L line items and accuracy of underlying data such as headcount, with a focus on subcontractor costs and accruals (reconciliation with time-sheets and vendor invoices)

• Ensure accuracy and proper allocation of cost to the appropriate cost centers

• Help prepare a high quality, accurate, forecast by running regular forecast reports as per the global process, review/challenge and submit to the practice leader for management review, submit as per the agreed deadline

• Working closely with the operations team and use the global standardized operational reports (SMART reports) when available, giving more details/context to understand the services business performance

• Support the annual business planning process ensuring compliance with corporate guideline

• Strong team player and able to work in a collaborative team environment

• Ad-hoc projects and reporting

 Key Requirements/Experience

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Accurate, with good attention to detail. Able to spot and rectify errors

• Excellent communication, organizational and planning skills

• Good Customer Service attitude

• Good written and spoken English skills any other language seen as plus

• Intermediate financial systems and use of MS Office applications (particularly Excel)

• Large software of services company experience

• Background in Finance or Accounting + recognized Professional Accounting Qualification

• Several years post qualification experience in FP&A roles