Financial Analyst-Lease Accounting

Responsibilities:

• Provide Business Finance support for the Integrated Leasing business, including account-level P&L analysis, revenue, cost, margin, profitability reporting, and identification of key financial drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Support deal-level forecasting, financial analysis, and profitability assessment, ensuring accurate business and operational inputs are reflected in forecasts, and perform forecast-versus-actual analysis to identify variances and improve forecast accuracy.
• Prepare financial reporting, dashboards, management analysis, scenario modelling, and business insights to support planning, budgeting, forecasting, business reviews, and operational decision-making.
• Partner with Customer Delivery Managers and Contract Management Operations to monitor deal and account profitability and support the end-to-end leasing lifecycle, including lease initiation, asset installation, billing, and revenue realization.
• Monitor and support timely and accurate customer billing, identifying potential delays or process gaps following lease initiation and asset installation and coordinating with relevant teams to resolve issues.
• Collaborate with Business Finance, Compliance, Analytics, and Operations to resolve financial issues, improve data quality, maintain financial controls, and provide accurate inputs to the Services business unit.
• Support process improvements, reporting enhancements, automation, and standardization within finance processes, while developing a strong understanding of the Leasing Ecosystem, business processes, systems, and financial drivers.
• Maintain high standards of financial accuracy, compliance, data integrity, and operational rigor, while building strong relationships with business and operational stakeholders and continuously developing commercial and financial expertise.
• Support high-impact business initiatives, coordinating finance activities and collaborating with analysts and finance teams across functions and geographies to deliver business outcomes.

Education and Experience Required:

• First level university degree with a focus in business or economics; advanced degree or accounting certification (e.g., CA, CPA) preferred.
• Typically 8+ years of experience as a financial analyst.
• Typically experienced in more than one finance function.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent understanding of accounting principles focused on leasing and financial analysis, with advanced knowledge in one area.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent business application skills (e.g., Microsoft Excel).
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Superior teamwork skills
• Strong business acumen.
• Good project management skills.