Functional Job Title : Finance FP&A Specialist, Team Lead
Reports to : AVP
Department/ Division : Expense Insights Center
Basic Purpose of Job:
The Expense Insight Center specialist provides subject matter knowledge in the assigned area of Financial Planning & Analysis, develops a thorough understanding of State Street's business practices to effectively perform independent, complex reporting or analytics to support the add-hoc needs of the businesses. Reporting to the Expense Insight Center AVP, the specialist will be performing a multitude of activities associated with reporting and analytics of Compensation & Benefit costs across Business Units.
The candidate should have a background in financial analysis, typically acquired through related experience in the financial services industry. The position requires excellent analytical, research and financial modeling ability coupled with strong communication, and time management skills.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist in the preparation of monthly management information reports that provide senior management with an understanding of the Headcount, Salaries and Benefits costs to facilitate decision making, including monthly variance analysis, key driver / metric analysis, and measurement of performance trends.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert for Headcount and Salary costs across the countries and for Organization as a whole
- Assist/ Own Budget and Forecast related to Headcount and its related costs at country level and as a whole
- Ad-hoc support to CFO group on Salary related queries
- Assist in building a culture of continuous improvement - critically examine and assess existing financial analysis practices and suggest improvements wherever necessary.
- Work closely with accounting team to identify and implement process improvements and monitor spend.
- Required to participate in or conduct a wide range of accounting and financial analyses on critical and complex issues which may include variance analysis, forecasts, budgeting, cost control and accounting transactions.
- Perform annual operational planning process (budget) along with variance analysis for management review.
Education and Experience:
- MBA (Finance)/ CA with 5-7 years of experience, ideally covering multiple of the following:
- Financial and business analysis, preferably with assessing people related costing in a global setting
- Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to interact with executive management.
- Exhibits an exceptional standard of quality which includes attention to detail, organization, thoughtful analysis and problem solving and accountability for excellent results.
- Should have strong hands-on expertise with Excel & Power BI
- Direct support to business or product line management / executives
- Experience with preparation of budgets, variance analysis and insights
- Willingness to take challenges and drive issues/queries to resolution independently.
Skills/ Knowledge:
- Must possess strong communication skills with ability to participate in or lead conference calls and present financial results to financial and non-financial audiences at various levels of seniority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Access, Power BI), advanced levels of excel (pivot tables, formulas, excel workbook maintenance best practices)
- Knowledge of Hyperion Essbase andSmartView.
- Knowledge of Oracle a plus
- Strong Analytical skill set
- Self-motivated, self-assured, self-managed & a team player
- Proactive and ability to build relationship with BU and Cross Functional Teams.
- Ability to analyze and summarize complex financial matters and their impact to the bank
- Ability to multi-task and work under high pressure deadlines
