Assoc Mgr, Finance

• You will work with business leaders, their teams, and their various stakeholders to help discover, deliver, monitor, and enhance various reporting and analytics initiatives. The ideal candidate is a natural self-starter who is comfortable working within a cross functional environment, supporting multiple stakeholders and initiatives. You will have a true hands-on approach, strong analytical skills, including the ability to gain true insights from data, and be an effective communicator. Business acumen is a must have and will be most required for this position.
• Responsible for end-to-end service delivery including design, build and maintain automated reports and dashboards leading to self-service analytics and/or improved business decisions.
• Manage the delivery of comprehensive management reporting packages for all financial statements, including preparation of accounting processes KPI's for GBS Finance & FP&A.
• Manage and execute entire projects from start to finish including project management, data gathering and manipulation, estimation, synthesis, and dashboard modeling.
• Lead a team of 1-2 analysts regarding daily activities, career development and long-term goals.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, comfortable navigating conflicting priorities and ambiguous problems.
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement financial dashboards, models and monitor outcomes.
• Should have the ability to understand and analyze data for the purpose of identifying trends and providing insights to the various stakeholders to unlock potential value for business.
• Evaluate and drive continuous improvements/ innovation in reporting/ advanced analytics
• Continuously focus on building competency in new/future technologies and solutions pertaining to data, reporting and analytics
• Develop strong functional knowledge and business stakeholder relationship
• Liaise with Reporting & Analytics and Global/ Regional FP&A organization to develop develop standard set of tools that meet business needs and help imporve data quality and assoicated governance
• Liaise with the SMEs and Advanced Analytics team to support the creation of budgets, forecasts and management reports, while ensuring compliance with all quality / control requirements.
• Update process flows, operating manuals, training guides, and standard operating procedures as needed
• Guarantee global standard and alignment in all reports, processes, and communication.

Key Competencies:

• Expertise in data visualization and analytical tools such as Power BI and/ or Tableau or/and Alteryx, etc, how to optimize performance and customer experience. Certification on PowerBI/ Tableau/Alteryx is added advantage
• Advanced & relevant experience in Business Intelligence techniques (ETL development, data modelling, data mining, data warehousing & data visualization & reporting) with relevant domain experience in finance
• A solid experience and understanding of architecting, designing and operationalization of large-scale data and analytics solutions on Cloud Data Warehouse/Snowflake/AWS S3.
• Translate requirements for BI and Reporting to Database design and reporting design
• Understanding data transformation and translation requirements and which tools to leverage to get the job done
• Understanding data pipelines and modern ways of automating data pipeline
• Experience querying databases and using statistical computer languages (Python, PySpark, Lambda function, Scala, SQL, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets
• Experience in AWS services like AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS Redshift & QuickSight, is a plus
• Excellent analytical skills with familiarity with accounting, financial analysis, and reporting
• Expert with advanced excel formulas and experience with Excel VBA
• Excellent financial modelling skills preferred, experience in statistical modelling techniques is a plus
• Experience with JD Edwards (JDE), Hyperion Planning, Cognos, Tableau, Alteryx preferred
• Support finance leadership with process improvement, policy development, and / or strategic initiatives (e.g., business systems, processes, and / or policies)
• Perform financial management reporting to help track business performance to facilitate decision making and business support
• Digitally savvy, able to navigate easily in a virtual world

Key Professional Competencies:

• Self-driven with excellent analytical skills and decision-making capabilities
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in agile environment by effectively prioritizing and managing tasks concurrently; owns career and is accountable for managing own development
• Ability to work in a team-oriented inter-dependent environment, often cross-functionally and influence

Additional Requirements:

• Flexibility is required to work in global time zones, hybrid model 
• Ability and willingness to travel both domestically and internationally as required
• English: Native or bilingual proficiency required
• Professional proficiency in other languages a plus

Qualification/Experiences:

• 8+ years of overall experience working with a Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Finance, Math, Statistics, or a related discipline.
• Strong business acumen in corporate functions (such as finance/ FP&A, procurement, human resource & technology) and/ or integrated supply chain (manufacturing, R&D, etc.) is preferred 
• 6+ years of relevant experience working with data visualization and analytical tools such as Tableau/Power BI/Alteryx (ETL development, data modeling, data mining, data warehousing & data visualization & reporting).
• Certifications in Tableau/Power BI/Alteryx/AWS Services/Agile is preferred