Payments Planning & Analysis (P&A) are a part of the Strategic Finance team that supports the Payments organization. You could be a part of a team that is engaged in both supporting day-to-day business objectives, as well as shaping the strategic vision of the business, working with a wide range of product teams (Payments & Commerce Solutions, Liquidity & Account Solutions, and Trade Finance), lines of business (Corporate & Investment Bank, Commercial Bank) and functional partners (Business Managers, Controllers, Technology, Operations) globally. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with other highly motivated individuals in transforming the finance function into a connected, forward looking organization that promotes strategic decision making of the business.
The team believes in a collaborative approach, so relationship building will be key to success in this role. We are looking for a candidate that can collaborate globally across a diverse set of stakeholders in a dynamic environment. This is a highly visible role across the Payments organization with exposure to the Chief Financial Office (CFO) of the business, as well as offers the ability to work closely with a wide variety of stakeholders and senior business leads.
Job responsibilities:
- Managing annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rational and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting, conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports
- Efficiency reporting, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics
- Creating financial business cases supporting business initiatives
- Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
- Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
- Performing variance analysis to understand the key factors of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
- Helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management
- Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- 4+ years of work experience, preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background
- Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
- Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Inquisitive, enthusiastic, diligent, and capable of challenging peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
- Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments with often little lead time or information
- Highly motivated, able to thrive and think clearly under tight deadlines, excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and Financial Planning & Analysis Teams
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
