Associate, Reporting - London, United Kingdom - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Requisition ID Office Country- United Kingdom- Office City- London- Division- Finance - Strategy, Planning & Control- Contract Type- Short Term- Contract Length- 06 months- Posting End Date- 05/04/2024
Purpose of Job
The role is part of the FP&A team within the Finance - Strategy, Planning and Control department.


The Associate, Reporting and Analysis role is part of the FP&A team responsible for all reporting and analysis of all aspects of resource management across the Bank: income, overall expenditure - staff, non-staff, profit, capital and financial and non-financial KPIs across the Bank.

The incumbent will deliver specific, allocated areas of the team's work.


The position is responsible for the production and distribution of meaningful financial and headcount reporting and insightful commentary to budget holders, senior management, board and external stakeholders.

Given the small size of the team, the role involves work across a number of responsibilities.

The role provides direct support to the Principal, Reporting and Analysis to implement enhancements to reporting, enabling decision support to senior management and the Board.

The role also supports and contributes to the preparation of specific sections of documents issued to senior management and to the Board such as the Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP).


The reporting infrastructure currently includes SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), SAP Business Warehouse (BW), IBM Cognos reports that reference the Bank's Datamart, the information presentation layers, Bank information portals - and the newly acquired data visualisation tool, Tableau.

Resource plans (staff positions and costs) are modelled within SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).

The Associate will also project manage the Finance-led prioritisation of the system enhancements and change requests.


Accountabilities & Responsibilities

  • Accountabilities and responsibilities for this handson role are to be carried out with a degree of independence under management of the Principal, Reporting and Analysis.
Under the direction of the Principal, this role takes the lead in developing and implementing specific areas of the team's work including:


  • Create staff models and volume forecasts to establish budget headroom
  • Embed monthly management reporting covering KPIs, P&L and insight / commentary to be presented to CFO and Executive Committee for business performance
  • Embed Segmented P&L reporting covering KPIs, and insight / Commentary to be presented to Banking / Client Service Group
  • Embed quarterly performance review (QPR) process to ensure that it meets the requirements of CFO, Executive Committee and Board
  • Responsible for producing SIP (annual budgets/ plans), Strategic Capital framework (5 year plans) and forecast presentations and documents
  • Assist in preparation of forwardlooking financial data, including forecasting and scenario analysis
  • Deliver and maintain new visual reporting analytics and dashboards on staffing and expenditure, liaising with HR and IT where necessary
  • Liaise with Operational Strategy and Planning to embed non financial metrics KPIs within reporting
  • Active engagement with business areas across the Bank to establish reporting requirements, work with IT to define data sources required and design reporting solutions promoting selfservice that include integration of data visualisations to the Bank's reporting architecture and portals
  • Act as first point of contact for any queries on data, system issues and is the liaison with the IT department
  • Make recommendations for internal process and system improvements, supporting the wider team with delivering efficiency and performance improvements
  • Influence staff involved in other departments to reduce the timing to close the financial period through process improvements and automation
  • Implement, document and maintain reporting procedures and timelines
  • Advise the Principal, Reporting and Analysis and senior team members on industry best practice in use of system capabilities
  • This job description is not limited to the responsibilities and the incumbent may be requested to performance other relevant duties as required by the business needs.
  • Constantly identifies ways for increasing efficiency and effectiveness namely by automating processes, improving data quality and adopting market best practices, hence freeing up resources for more added value activities such as business partnering and analytics

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

  • Qualified accountant/CFA qualified and relevant practical experience in Finance preferred
  • Demonstrable experience in developing client driven financial reporting and dashboards
  • Advanced Excel (Pivots, Formulas) and PowerPoint skills coupled with the ability to manage large amounts of data and data modelling
  • Experience as a systems administrator or superuser with SAP BPC 10.0 NW and good understanding of
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