Financial Reporting and Analytics Senior Associate

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ABOUT DALBERG

We are a global group working to build a more sustainable planet and inclusive societies where all people can thrive. As a diverse purpose-driven community of professionals it works in collaboration with local communities and global networks to create bold and equitable solutions and develop the next generation of impact leaders. Dalberg brings together strategy and management consulting equity-centered community design data research implementation and communications to achieve its mission of solving the most pressing challenges of our time through systemic change. We are from everywhere at home anywhere - an African and American company as much as an Asian Latin American Middle Eastern and European one.

Dalberg is a place where a diverse mix of talented individuals are able to practice transparency and openness while maintaining independence of thought whether its how you identify where you come from the languages you speak the person you love or the way you worship. Dalberg is a home where people feel safe understood nurtured and encouraged to grow.

As a team of 610 people from 55 countries speaking over 90 languages collectively with 48% female leadership team Dalberg places diversity equity and inclusion principles at the heart of our organization and the work we do alongside our clients partners and communities.

Established in 2001 by experienced private sector consultants Dalberg operates from 25 worldwide locations. For more information please visitDalberg.

ABOUT DALBERG ADVISORS

Dalberg Advisors is a global professional services firm that puts impact at the center of decision-making. With over 430 full-time staff spread across 27 locations Dalberg Advisors has brought global perspectives to hyper-local solutions for over 1200 clients from across governments philanthropies companies and local and international NGOs.

This includes designing a USD 5 billion strategy to create 25 million jobs for youth in Africa helping shape a platform to support Indias cleantech manufacturing ambitions supporting a major restructuring of the United Nations system across eight countries and leading a 35-country effort to close childhood immunity gaps caused by COVID-19.

Dalbergs mission is to help clients solve the most pressing social economic and environmental challenges of our time through systemic changeserving those who serve the world.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Much of the reporting that drives leadership decisions at Dalberg is produced through manual processes: data extracted from the ERP reconciled and transformed in Excel assembled into PowerPoint each month.

This role exists to change that. We are looking for a Finance Data & Reporting Senior Associate someone who thinks first in systems and pipelines and who sees the current manual workflow not as a job to do but as a problem to solve. The Finance Director and regional leadership will review the analysis and identify implications. Your job is to build the infrastructure that makes producing it faster more reliable and less dependent on individual effort.

The Finance Data & Reporting Senior Associate combines accounting expertise with advanced reporting and data automation capabilities. The role is responsible for producing and continuously improving regular reports and finance deep-dives that support regional leadership decision-making and for transitioning the team from manual ad hoc outputs to more streamlined reliable and scalable financial reporting. This role supports the continued evolution of the finance function by improving the quality and reliability of reporting and forecasting enhancing outputs across finance and further developing financial planning and analysis capabilities.

The individual would start out serving the Europe and Africa regions primarily. These regions finance functions support entities across Africa (Kenya Rwanda and South Africa) and Europe (UK Switzerland and France) operating across multiple legal entities and currencies in a complex and fast-growing organisation. However the reports that are developed will become a template for other regions and over time we would expect that this individual take on a more global remit as well.

The role reports to the Regional Finance Director and works closely with the GSS finance team and finance and operations colleagues across Europe and Africa. The wider team includes specialists in financial systems reporting Power BI and data analytics and this role is expected to collaborate closely to align efforts and leverage shared expertise.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

The role is structured around three areas with infrastructure-building as the primary focus from day one.

1. Build scalable reporting infrastructure

This is the core of the role. The goal is to replace one-off manually assembled outputs with structured replicable pipelines.

• Design and build automated data pipelines that pull from ERP extracts ODBC connections and other sources into a clean structured layer that can feed reporting tools and models.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and self-serve reporting tools that allow finance and operations colleagues to access key metrics without submitting ad hoc requests.
• Standardise and document data models transformation logic and reporting templates creating replicable processes that are not dependent on any one persons knowledge.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities for recurring manual steps using Power Query Power Automate Python scripts and AI-assisted tools especially agentic AI opportunities.

2. Support financial reporting and analytical output

While the Finance Director and regional leads own the analysis this role provides the data foundation that makes it possible.

• Own the underlying data architecture for monthly reporting packs ensuring inputs are clean reconciled and ready.
• Build and maintain the reforecast model drawing on ERP actuals pipeline data and headcount inputs with clear data lineage that finance colleagues can interrogate and trust.
• Produce structured data outputs and bespoke analyses when the Finance Director or regional leadership need inputs for a specific decision or deep-dive.
• Improve revenue reconciliation across project budgets recognised revenue pipeline and GL data making it more systematic and less error-prone.

3. Data quality integrity and systems improvement

Good infrastructure depends on clean data. This role owns the quality and reliability of the data layer.

• Validate and reconcile data across multiple sources identifying root causes of discrepancies and building systematic fixes rather than manual workarounds.
• Apply appropriate controls and documentation to ensure reporting outputs are grounded in accurate financials in partnership with the Finance Director who owns the accounting judgement.
• Support month-end and quarter-end processes by ensuring data infrastructure is reliable and outputs can be produced with minimal manual intervention.
• Collaborate with the global reporting team and data specialists to align on shared infrastructure rather than building in silos.
• Develop training materials and documentation that enable finance colleagues to use self-serve tools confidently.
  

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Essential experience and skills

Data engineering and systems

• 36 years experience in a data analytics or reporting engineering role building pipelines dashboards or automated reporting workflows rather than just consuming them.
• Strong Power BI skills: able to build maintain and optimise dashboards and data models independently including DAX and data source configuration.
• Advanced Excel including Power Query pivot tables dynamic arrays and automation via macros or VBA.
• Experience working with ERP or financial system data understanding how it is structured extracted and transformed downstream.
• Ability to work across multi-source datasets: structuring joining reconciling and cleaning data from disparate systems.
• Experience with AI tools for finance including agentic AI with some experience building agentic tools that can improve productivity

Financial Fluency

• Strong understanding of financial statements P&L balance sheet cash flow to build data models that reflect how the business works and flag when numbers dont make sense.
• Familiarity with management reporting concepts: utilisation project profitability pipeline revenue recognition.
• Experience working with or within finance teams with an understanding of close processes reporting cycles and the consequences of data error.

Working style

• Strong problem diagnosis: able to identify why a process is broken and design a fix not just execute a workaround.
• Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences able to explain data model logic to a Finance Director and query logic to a developer.
• Ability to switch between technical skills in data engineering and systems and in finance as well
• Comfortable in ambiguous systems-constrained environments where the brief is often this isnt working rather than a clear specification.

WHO WILL THRIVE IN THIS ROLE

• You see broken processes as problems worth solving not background noise. When the numbers dont reconcile and no one knows why youre the one who figures it out.
• You move comfortably between the detail and the so-what. You can spend a morning in a reconciliation and an afternoon explaining your findings clearly to a non-finance colleague and you know how to adjust your language for both.
• You dont wait to be told what the problem an environment where the brief is often this isnt working can you fix it you define the problem propose the approach and own the output.
• You bring genuine curiosity about how technology can make finance work better not as a side interest but as part of how you think about every process you touch.
• You are energised by ambiguity rather than paralysed by it. Shifting priorities incomplete briefs and moving deadlines are the environment not the exception and you have the resilience and adaptability to deliver anyway.

JOIN OUR TEAM

This hybrid role can be based in Delhi Mumbai London Johannesburg or Nairobi and requires on-site presence in the office at least two days per week.
Please submit your application at our Career Centre prior to the closing date of Sunday 19th July.
Your application should include a resume and a cover letter.
Qualified and interested candidates irrespective of age gender race religion background or ethnic affiliation are encouraged to apply for the vacancy.
Owing to the large number of applications we receive unfortunately only successful candidates will be contacted.