Senior Finance Analyst - London, United Kingdom - IFS

Description

A Senior Finance Analyst thrives in an end-to-end role, from number-crunching to reward program support and who can analyze, create, communicate, constructively challenge & problem-solve.

To be successful, you will have to enjoy working in a business-facing advisory role

Duties will include but not be limited to:

• Develop and maintain excel models to manually calculate bonus accruals and payments for our variable pay employees globally, ensuring full audit trail is in place.
• Continually review the integrity of source data and follow up on corrective actions with colleagues in human resources, payroll and across the finance functions
• Issue month-end accrual values to Finance across multiple legal entities.
• Answer ad hoc queries from the global organization on bonus related issues.
• Ability to gain in depth knowledge of complex plan components and calculations
• Maintain plan records including key milestone activity and participation data and the issue and review/maintenance of plan documentation.
• Comprehend various Bonus plan structures and own calculations for payments
• Support the preparation of reports & audits
• Provide strategic advice and guidance including year-end remuneration processes.

• Professional Qualification (CIMA or ACCA)
• Advanced level Excel skills with the ability to build complex formula & create user-friendly data templates
• Strong Financial modelling experience
• Knowledge of database systems would be highly advantageous
• Previous experience within global and multicultural environment

• Able to communicate at all level and especially to C-level stakeholders
• Good understanding of Business Operations and Sales Compensation Plans
• Able to prioritize and manage the workload
• Ability to manage unstructured data and create Order from scratch
• excellent organizational skills.
• Problem-solving skills and commercial approach whilst maintaining high standards of client service.
• Confidence to think differently, open to learn in a fast paced and changing environment