The opportunity (Assistant Director)
As we roll out All In across our firms the PBFA function becomes even more critical to help maintain/improve profitability and provide strategic insights. The support role will be instrumental in helping the ASU PBFA Lead to carry out this role.
This role requires a finance professional offering support to the MENA ASU PBFA Lead on P&L analysis and other KPIs. The role will establish best in class support functional expertise and reporting solutions with a particular focus on analytics and financial modelling.
Your key responsibilities:
- Develop a good understanding of the PBFA cycle in a year along with SL performance KPIs.
- Conduct data analysis on large sets of data to give leadership insights on performance and profitability to drive business decisions.
- Lead in development of financial models for different scenarios to assess impacts of changing levers.
- Support Operations lead in the root cause analysis of variances and identification of possible solutions to resolve issues.
- With time develop effective working relationships with the extended Finance team and ASU leadership team.
- Participate in various improvement initiatives and information gathering activities within PBFA space.
- Be the Go To Person for all analysis and financial modelling.
Skills and attributes for success:
- Keen to solve problems and provide a credible solution.
- Ensure delivery of exceptional client service to all stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and numeracy skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good time management skills and able to balance multiple priorities by considering risk importance and level of urgency.
- Eagerness to learn quickly be proactive and ask questions.
- Well-developed listening skills.
To qualify for the role you must be:
- Willing to working in a fast-paced environment with a strong work ethic.
- Able to interact well with people at all levels within the firm and build strong relationships.
- Having strong knowledge of MS Office Packages. Excel PowerPoint Outlook Power BI and Word in particular.
- Having excellent communications and organizational skills.
- Detail oriented and eager to analyze and solve complex cases
- Have a finance related degree or qualified accountant
- Have 5-7 years of relevant work experience
- Be innovative confident and creative thinker with ability to make quick decisions.
- Willing to work in a flexible working pattern
Required Experience:
Manager