The Global Technology Finance & Business Management team is seeking a senior associate to support the Billing Services and Transformation team.  This is a high-exposure opportunity as our Finance & Business Management teams ensure senior management across the firm have visibility into the significant budgets and forecasts that makeup global technology.

As a Senior Associate on the Billing Services and Transformation team you will partner across the firm providing financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting with a specific focus on Infrastructure Platforms product costing. The team is responsible for a wide range of activities including maintaining the Product P&L Cost Model; analyzing, preparing, and reconciling financial and technical data along with creating reports while also devising ways to streamline and minimize cycle times through automated applications and process improvement. 

You will also help develop recommendations effecting business procedures and operations as well as advising the line of business and technology Chief Financial Officers on how to increase profitability and efficiencies.

 

Job responsibilities:

Partner with the technology teams in all areas of financial management with a focus on internal allocations including: budget planning, monthly forecasting and reporting, productivity tracking, run rate analysis, monitoring allocations, and cost recovery Manage annual/continual financial planning activities for product area allocations, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting, conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports Manage month-end total cost of ownership product calculation (Product P&Ls), product margin, and unit costs through use of industry standard tool sets Deliver annual product and pricing changes end-to-end including introduction/retirement of products and analyzing the impact to customers Engage with product owners on the cost modeling / creation of new products and providing annual pricing guidance for all products in the product area Report on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and help define future needs of the product area Develop and track performance metrics, create presentations, and provide financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management Help design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible

 

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature 4+ years of relevant work experience Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets Experience maintaining Financial tools (preferred) Ability and desire to operate in multiple financial tools to track/analyze data Curious, enthusiastic and diligent, capable of challenging peers, and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments with often little lead time or information Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and Financial Planning & Analysis teams Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

Cost modeling or activity based costing experience Alteryx experience