Senior Analyst

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Ownership of the yearly budget exercise, liaising with business stakeholders to ensure an accurate, a timely and a sufficiently granular submission of (Client) agreed upon spend
• Validate the month-end accrual submissions to ensure that gaps in terms of fixed (i.e. monthly recurring) costs versus budget and / or forecast are duly accounted for, and liaise with business stakeholders as required
• Submit consolidated accruals to the corporate team in an accurate and timely fashion
• Upload monthly actual and accrual figures to forecast files, and reconcile for completeness
• Ensure that the monthly rolling forecast is duly updated to reflect future months' spend expectations
• Create the monthly regional management reporting packs (including a comparison of actuals versus budget and / or forecast, as well as appropriate and insightful commentary on variances)
• Guide junior members of the team as to how draft meaningful variance explanations, and retain oversight of what they put forth for capturing in the regional management reporting packs
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis, and reporting, as required by the business
• Document and keep up-to-date relevant training materials as well as budgeting / forecasting walk-throughs
• Responsible for maintaining the monthly FP&A and CEE / SE finance calendars, and ensuring that all relevant parties are aware of FP&A (and billing)-related tasks as well as their completion dates
• Train business stakeholders on the FP&A process as well as the tools in use, as and when required

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