Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Responsible for financial modelling, peer benchmarking and executive reporting thru various FP&A corporate development reports.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

• Support delivery of strategic initiatives reviewing team financial analysis, evaluating gaps and communicating feedback to ensure accurate research
• Align knowledge strategy with business needs
• Assist in process design, development, implementation related to corporate development tasks

Policy, Process and Procedures

• Establish and implement business unit policies and procedures to enhance shared services transactions assigned to the operating function
• Ensure compliance to industry and company guidelines and policies
• Identify improvement areas in current processes in place to improve efficiency
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of financial systems, including general ledger systems, to effectively complete job functions

Environmental Awareness/Customer Focus

• Maintain a good internal stakeholder relationship
• Manage stakeholders in line of business unit
• Increase GSSC’s credibility within the QBE community through participation in committees, task forces and events
• Provide communication updates in regard to expense-related processes – annual budgeting, forecasting, expense inquiries
• Work with stakeholders to maximize opportunities, minimize expenses and achieve operational and service targets

Technical Performance

• Implement assigned policies and procedures
• Serve as the secondary thought leadership resource for internal customers of the operating unit for all matters related to operational excellence
• Perform data preparation and basic data management on monthly expense analysis process including design, development, implementation and process improvement activities
• Timely and accurate delivery of operating expense related management reports and analysis, including preparing the pre-allocated, post-allocated and annual expense budget report packages
• Support the communication of recommendations to senior stakeholders in an engaging manger
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of stakeholder presentations and facilitating meetings and workshops
• Support ad hoc requests in addition to primary responsibilities
• Serves as a single point of contact for client teams, product development teams, and/or sales teams
• Manage budgeted resources by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs/costs and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility
• Deliver accurate financial reporting metrics by analyzing financial data, performing complex data entry, verifying accuracy and collaborating with senior leadership as needed
• Support development and preparation of financial models, including earnings, capital and liquidity, to develop proforma analysis of key growth scenarios
• Conduct extensive research to identify business and economic trends, understand competitive landscape though peer benchmarking and market screening, and uncover opportunities for business expansion
• Support preparation of case studies of peers who have expanded into the identified areas of growth
• Support reports on proposed executive-level projects by analyzing profitability and developing growth projections to recommend and build business case for projects that meet organizational objectives
• Support key executive level presentations to relevant stakeholders

People Management

• “Can do” attitude and willingness to help the team reach a deadline
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships within the department

Required Education

• University degree in Business, Finance and/or Accounting
• CPA, CFA charter holder (or passed at least the Level I examination), preferred but not required

Required Experience

• At least 2 years of work experience involving management reporting and/or financial analysis
• At least 4 years relevant working experience

Preferred Competencies/Skills

• Excellent Microsoft Office Skills, particularly Excel and Powerpoint,  including financial modelling
• Advanced PowerBI and Market Intelligence skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with ability to use multiple resources to gather and analyze information and use logic to address work-related issues and problems
• Ability to collaborate with people at different levels within the organization to accomplish a common goal
• Effective planning skills and time managemen