Job responsibilities
- Assist in AWM Legal Department’s global budget planning and ongoing forecast expense management
- Advise Finance & Business Management on forecasting, headcount monitoring and outside counsel spend
- Manage internal and external spend including tracking headcount and financials and develop reports for senior management
- Support overall strategic agendas and prioritization process
- Plan and developing materials for business reviews, town halls, off-sites, and weekly management meetings
- Coordinate for administrative functions within the organization
- Participate in initiatives as assigned by senior management team including presentations, ad-hoc analysis
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- 8+ years in Business Analytics and/or Financial Planning. Experience in analyzing budgets, forecasting and communicating variances to plan
- Analytical and commercial mind-set to evaluate the returns on investment initiatives and the financial implications of various structure and process changes
- Strong skills in data analytics and presentation; including the ability to distill information into headline story lines supported by appropriate detail
- Expert level in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to join data together via lookups and related functions, to create clear presentable results using pivot tables, charts, conditional formatting, etc.
- Very strong project and process management skills, including the ability to run meetings, create agendas, and keep teams on task to meet deliverables
- Ability to escalate issues with proposed solutions and keep key stakeholders informed of issue status
- Ability to excel in a disbursed environment where your colleagues and key partners are geographically spread
- Excellent verbal, written, creative thinking and presentation skills. Self-motivated, results-oriented, with focus on detail and quality
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience with financial infrastructure and data systems, and some programming experience (eg. SQL, Tableau) a plus
- Experience with financial reporting systems and processes, Essbase, databases, Tableau, business objects, etc. is a plus