Purpose of Job
The role is part of the FP&A team within the Finance – Strategy, Planning and Control department.
The Associate, Reporting and Analysis role is part of the FP&A team responsible for all reporting and analysis of all aspects of resource management across the Bank: income, overall expenditure – staff, non-staff, profit, capital and financial and non-financial KPIs across the Bank. The incumbent will deliver specific, allocated areas of the team’s work.
The position is responsible for the production and distribution of meaningful financial and headcount reporting and insightful commentary to budget holders, senior management, board and external stakeholders. Given the small size of the team, the role involves work across a number of responsibilities. The role provides direct support to the Principal, Reporting and Analysis to implement enhancements to reporting, enabling decision support to senior management and the Board. The role also supports and contributes to the preparation of specific sections of documents issued to senior management and to the Board such as the Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP).
The reporting infrastructure currently includes SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), SAP Business Warehouse (BW), IBM Cognos reports that reference the Bank’s Datamart, the information presentation layers, Bank information portals - and the newly acquired data visualisation tool, Tableau. Resource plans (staff positions and costs) are modelled within SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).
The Associate will also project manage the Finance-led prioritisation of the system enhancements and change requests.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Accountabilities and responsibilities for this hands-on role are to be carried out with a degree of independence under management of the Principal, Reporting and Analysis. Under the direction of the Principal, this role takes the lead in developing and implementing specific areas of the team’s work including:
- Create staff models and volume forecasts to establish budget headroom
- Embed monthly management reporting covering KPIs, P&L and insight / commentary to be presented to CFO and Executive Committee for business performance
- Embed Segmented P&L reporting covering KPIs, and insight / Commentary to be presented to Banking / Client Service Group
- Embed quarterly performance review (QPR) process to ensure that it meets the requirements of CFO, Executive Committee and Board
- Responsible for producing SIP (annual budgets/ plans), Strategic Capital framework (5 year plans) and forecast presentations and documents
- Assist in preparation of forward-looking financial data, including forecasting and scenario analysis
- Deliver and maintain new visual reporting analytics and dashboards on staffing and expenditure, liaising with HR and IT where necessary
- Liaise with Operational Strategy and Planning to embed non – financial metrics KPIs within reporting
- Active engagement with business areas across the Bank to establish reporting requirements, work with IT to define data sources required and design reporting solutions promoting self-service that include integration of data visualisations to the Bank’s reporting architecture and portals
- Maintain the SAP BPC system functionality, data integrity and maintaining static financial data in SAP BPC and upstream source system SAP Financial. Maintain the SAP BPC application components (applications sets, packages, dimensions, reports, script logic etc.) to support management reporting needs for the group.
- Act as first point of contact for any queries on data, system issues and is the liaison with the IT department
- Review and monitor security and controls functionality to support application security and data integrity
- Make recommendations for internal process and system improvements, supporting the wider team with delivering efficiency and performance improvements
- Influence staff involved in other departments to reduce the timing to close the financial period through process improvements and automation
- Implement, document and maintain reporting procedures and timelines
- Act as the subject matter expert for planning, reporting and analysis in SAP BPC and/or for reporting dashboards
- Advise the Principal, Reporting and Analysis and senior team members on industry best practice in use of system capabilities
- This job description is not limited to the responsibilities and the incumbent may be requested to performance other relevant duties as required by the business needs.
- Constantly identifies ways for increasing efficiency and effectiveness namely by automating processes, improving data quality and adopting market best practices, hence freeing up resources for more added value activities such as business partnering and analytics
Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- Qualified accountant/CFA qualified and relevant practical experience in Finance preferred
- Demonstrable experience in developing client driven financial reporting and dashboards
- Advanced Excel (Pivots, Formulas) and PowerPoint skills coupled with the ability to manage large amounts of data and data modelling
- Experience as a systems administrator or super-user with SAP BPC 10.0 NW and good understanding of SAP/BW backbone architecture
- Extensive knowledge of management information reporting and solid understanding of data governance principles
- Extensive knowledge and demonstrable experience of data visualisation and reporting tools including IBM Cognos, Tableau and Power BI.
- Demonstrable and extensive experience of management information and reporting within ‘blue chip’ organisations
- Experience of data mining, relational and multi-dimensional databases
- Excellent numeric and analytical skills
- Ability to respond to ad-hoc urgent requests from senior stakeholders which requires the ability to quickly get the pieces aligned to deliver
- High attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy under tight deadlines, with good organisation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a service mentality and ability to work effectively in a team, liaising with an extensive number of counterparties internally often dealing with competing priorities and deadlines
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
What is it like to work at the EBRD?
Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.
The EBRD environment provides you with:
- Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
- A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
- An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.
Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities. As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.
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