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Business Analyst - Markets Finance

Location:  Taguig
Other locations:  Primary Location Only
Salary: Competitive
Date:  21 Oct 2024

Job description

Requisition ID:  1540512

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

 

 

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