Business Analyst - Markets Finance

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst to join the Markets Finance team for EY Oceania on a flexible, full-time permanent basis. 

This role will work with leadership to drive our overall growth strategy for EY’s Market Segmentation & Industry structure. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will help navigate the business through the complexities of managing & reviewing monthly performance and translating financial data into commercial terms, providing insight into the account/engagement’s financial performance as well as forward thinking modelling and advice to support future financial decisions. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Commercial/Senior Commercial Analyst who is looking to take the next step up in their career.

Your key responsibilities

Reporting

• Responsible for monthly & weekly key performance reports to various stakeholders
• Monthly review of actuals with plan movements and provide explanation regarding the variances to leaders
• Provide key insights & analysis on the results and the commercial drivers behind it.
• Discussing & presenting the analysis with the respective stakeholders and providing advice.
• Simplification and streamlining of reporting through leveraging technology

Planning

• Manage the Global integrated planning processes for the Region, working with markets leaders to establish and embed appropriate stretch targets. Including aligning partner accountabilities with markets metrics; Identify potential risks and challenges in achieving revenue plan and advice on strategies to address these.

Commercial

• Providing key analysis on various drivers i.e., growth, margin & pricing
• Provide commercial analysis support for strategies & presentation and advise on commercial outcomes.
• Reviewing sales & pipeline and provide analysis when required to highlight key trends in the market for the firm’s footprint.
• The ability to perform modelling for predictive commercial outcomes.

Analysis

• Provide insights into performance by analysing data throughout the year on revenue, sales & pipeline, margin, trends, and annualized impacts, to support forward looking commercial insights and recommendations on how to achieve optimal financial performance.
• Creating and delivering insightful and impactful messaging to markets leaders, in support of decision making including placing financial metrics.
• Work with markets leadership / operations to identify reporting needs and strategy to respond including maximising usage of global reporting tool and library.
• Financial analysis related to engagement metrics and drivers (including margin improvement and resource/inventory management) to understand what is impacting performance.
• Build & maintain leverage modelling of staffing mix and how it impacts various KPI’s for a Client & Sector
• Provide decision support back to Service Lines & Markets respective stakeholders on various projects that provides valuable insights & clear direction for decisions to be made.
• Play an integral part in key strategies from leaders to provide thought provoking analytics to shed key information for the agenda at hand.
• Performing regular predictive modelling to drive the month outlook with our respective leaders
• Playing with big data and genuinely demonstrates the inquisitiveness of its nature.

Business Partnering

• Partnering with key stakeholders to act as the business advisor on various financial matters.
• Team closely with the Segment Operational Leaders & Market Operational Leaders to agree their priorities and focus which are aligned with the business needs and agreed oversight approach.

Technology

• Utilise & become a subject matter expert for all the technology at hand to provide digital based solutions to drive data visualisation & story telling.
• Become advocate on relevant technology and tools & provide where necessary training back to the wider team.
• Attend key meetings to discuss best practice on visualisation & analytics to drive decision making with varying level of audience.

Qualifications, knowledge & experience

• Minimum 3 years experience in a business analyst role
• Experience in a professional services environment preferred
• Experience in dealing with senior stakeholders
• Responds well under pressure
• Proven analytical skills
• Good skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI, Alteryx
• Excellent communication skills; the ability to negotiate and influence decision-making, and communicate effectively with senior management on progress, issues and resolutions