Finance Reporting Analyst – (Finance, Reports, PowerBi)

Finance Reporting Analyst – Banking Client (Finance, Reports, PowerBi) – Brussels

Duration: 6 months + extension

Rate: €700 per day

UK candidates must use an Umbrella Company

4 day onsite in Brussels per month – the rest is remote working

You will be joining the Financial Data, Reporting and Analytics Department as part of the Management Reporting & Budgeting Team.

As analyst, your main responsibilities will include: budgeting cycle, production of reports, enhancement of existing reports, creation of new reports, transformation.

Management Reporting Analyst

You will be joining the Financial Data, Reporting and Analytics Department as part of the Management Reporting & Budgeting Team. As analyst, your main responsibilities will include:

Budgeting cycle

• Translate the business strategy into operational plans, hence setting the budget baseline for all departments in line with their specific needs and constraints
• Monthly closing activities: analysing monthly variances between actual and planned expenses, working closely with business owners
• Organize meeting to collect information, solve issue, organize your activity trans department
• Story telling approach, able to combine and present different source of data in a comprehensive way by all stakeholders
• Prepare and present monthly meeting on actuals vs budget/forecast to business owners and monitor the monthly spending to ensure it remains within the forecast & budget baselines
• Participate in the Finance Chargeback service review and allocation flow
• Deliver high quality data analyses and reporting, identify, communicate and solve complex issues
• Supporting on key projects or initiative
• Propose and drive improvements to systems and methods of work and analysis, and contributes to ensuring that they are continuously adapted to business requirements
• Develop and maintain financial models that support forecasting and budgeting processes
• Build management presentations, which contain the required information to support the business decision-taking process

2. Production of Reports

• Manage the preparation processes of financial reports directed to, Bank and the clients SA Finance divisional representatives.
• Provide analyses on results to help Management take sound financial decisions. Identify, investigate and report on anomalies/trends/variances for each output produced in the team. Pay specific attention to the cost and chargeback aspects.
• Ensure that the standard financial reports are available on time.
• Assist our Budget team with the update and maintenance of budget files.
• Seek for feedback on quality and relevance of the output delivered.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders (clients and data providers) to produce reports in the most timely way (linking clients’ needs with the right source of info at the right level of details).

3. Enhancement of existing reports

• Identify and implement rationalization of the reporting offering.
• Look for productivity gains thanks to further automation of the reporting.
• Adapt current reporting to better match our clients’ needs (new views, additional info).
• Identify and remove the redundant and/or useless information provided.
• Improve reporting format to ease readiness for clients and to highlight the key messages.
• Challenge the current sourcing of information to streamline the data flow and ensure the most efficient way to produce the reports.

4. Creation of new reports

• Help build new Management reports in line with management decision and client’s needs.
• Transform and industrialize some pilot reports in collaboration with data owners.
• Build Power BI reports/dashboards out of current data sources (mainly MS-Excel).

5. Transformation

• Automation, streamlining, modernization of existing/future processes and reports; look for productivity gains thanks to further automation of the reporting (integration in PowerBI).
• Transform and industrialize some pilot reports in collaboration with the clients and the data owners.
• Actively participate productivity and efficiency efforts of the team as per annual objectives.
• Set up budget as a service for new clients within the Euroclear Group.
• Be a main contributor to Transfer Pricing (POC costing model finance)
• Russian data collection

Your profile:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in a professional environment.
• Finance or Accounting degree.
• Understanding of costing mechanisms ( ) is an asset.
• Experience in Management Reporting as expertise domain is a plus.
• Advanced experience in Power BI for budgeting and management reporting purposes.
• Proficiency in Excel (formulas, pivot table, macros).
• Rigorous and able to translate financial data into business messages.
• Very good knowledge of English both written and spoken.
• Pro-active attitude, initiative taker, team player, client-minded.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Knowledge of the roadmap, project accounting and capitalization principles is a plus.
• Continuous improvement mindset.

Please do send across an up to date CV if you are available to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements