EY Senior Financial Analyst 

India, Kerala, Kochi 

123606981

Senior Finance Analyst

We provide reporting solutions or requirements through finance, markets and operations reporting along with cyclical and critical controlling processes such as Forecasting, Financial Planning, Revenue Planning, Markets Leadership Planning and Cash Reporting to help you take better business decisions. With projects like Mercury, we also support business transformation, and we are continuing to expand our services to support all Regions with their reporting and analytics needs.

We provide reporting solutions or requirements through finance, markets and operations reporting along with cyclical and critical controlling processes such as Forecasting, Financial Planning, Revenue Planning, Markets Leadership Planning and Cash Reporting to help you take better business decisions. With projects like Mercury, we also support business transformation, and we are continuing to expand our services to support all Regions with their reporting and analytics needs.

As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will collaborate with business, reporting, and other teams to understand business requirements and perform data analysis. Get involved and Lead in project transitions from different teams, do enhancements and modification post transition when needed. Study transactions to conclude root causes, variances and suggest corrections to management. Design and create complex reports to user specifications. The position will ideally have to handle more complex issues and special projects than a junior financial analyst.

Your key responsibilities

• Generate standard reports on a periodic basis and identify and solve issues that affect reporting
• Knowledge of global reporting and consolidation (Area, Region, Service ling reporting)
• Handle complex ad hoc reports from Stakeholders on a timely manner
• Proactively take part in the financial planning process
• Ensure proper review mechanism is in place for the respective teams
• Develop new reports/dashboards as well as enhance existing reports by working on automating the report preparation as much as possible
• Mentor, guide, train junior analysts and new recruits

Power BI and SQL Knowledge

• Ability to analyse large sets of data and determine patterns and rules for organizing and Prepare Visualization dashboards using Power BI
• Ability to handle multiple projects and coordinate between teams from different service lines
• Analyse and create complex SQL queries as needed to support data extracts needed for further processing in Data Analytics
• Coordinate development of ETL/data warehouse best practices needed to support new and evolving sources of data used in reporting, transaction processing and Analytics
• Perform extensive and detailed data analysis necessary to ensure strict adherence to data quality
• Take on end-to-end ownership and perform different roles within analysis and development phases
• Set and manage expectations with stakeholders while providing proactive communication and status updates; prioritize deliverables with Stakeholders/requestor, and follow/implement change control and release management processes
• Adhere to general work requirements and perform other duties as assigned

Skills and attributes for success

• Possess statistical or data driven and problem solving skills
• Have sound understanding of basic accounting concepts
• Possess good communication skill
• Be strong in MS Excel skill
• Understand financial reporting goals and basic process flow
• Ability to understand numbers and arrive at inferences
• Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to teach the juniors

To qualify for the role, you must have

• More than 5 years of experience advanced knowledge as a data analyst and/or SQL Server
• More than 3 years of working knowledge in Power BI Visualization tool.
• Working knowledge in MS Excel Macros will be added advantage
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a related field

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• Opportunities to work with EY F&A practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across eight locations – Argentina, China, India, Philippines, Poland, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Spain and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you : We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.