Job Description The Assistant Vice President Finance Specialist will be a critical contributor to the team providing analytical support for all SSGA reporting (across regions business channels) strategic decisions. The candidate will also advance key expense analytics for executive management and develop/assist in developing critical financial models.
As a key member of the finance team the successful candidate will be comfortable interfacing and presenting to management and the finance team within line of business. The position is a key hire as SSgA Finance continues to build-out its financial modelling and FP&A capabilities in support of better decision making and evaluating opportunities to improve the organizationserall profitability.
The candidate would ideally have relevant industry background in a complex global asset management firm. The position requires excellent analytical research and financial modeling ability coupled with strong communication and time management skills. The incumbent should be a self-starter and have a mastery of Microsoft Excel and data manipulation and a strong background in financial analysis and modeling. Experience with offshore team a plus.
Job Responsibilities: - FP&Arincipal role will be the development production and oversight of the financial reporting process and the related analysis including:
o Support all financial reporting efforts supporting SSGA CEO CFO and EMG Corporate BOD EDS Accounting and other groups
o Development of financial analytics models and standard commentary platforms for BU teams
o Prepare SSGA and BU teams for monthly forecast independently assess feasibility of financial results and collaborate on the optimal projection
o Supervise and training India Team (Bangalore) in consolidation and production of majority of analytics
o Advance expense analysis at the group level and delegate best practices to regions
o Developing process controls and checks to ensure accuracy of model results and maintain hierarchy
- Support the development of newly established Total Compensation dataset.
- Support overall revenue and sales analytics performed by the FP&A team.
- Contribute in development of data visualization (i.e. Tableau Spotfire) tools for BU and Senior Management.
- Play supporting role in SSGA Finance efforts to develop multi-year financial model critical for strategic decision making including CCAR
- Compiles ad-hoc reporting and completes special projects as assigned;
- Assists SSGA Finance in building a culture of continuous improvement - critically examines and assesses reporting practices and suggests improvements wherever necessary.
Qualifications: - 4-6+ years of experience in financial and business analysis preferably in an asset management firm.
- Advanced level of proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Access Longview Cognos Essbase and Oracle a plus.
- Expert level of Microsoft Excel proficiency preferred including vlookups pivot tables advanced graphing data manipulation and advanced template construction etc.
- Exhibits exceptional standard of quality attention to detail organization problem solving strong reasoning and analytical skills. Comfortable performing manual ad-hoc analyses reconciliations and reporting often under short deadlines. Willingness to be hands-on for most projects and deliverables
- Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity and to perform in a complex cross-functional and dynamic environment that is under constant change. May include training and partnering with offshore production team.
- Has a strong commercial sense of the financial services industry; regulatory experience is preferred.
- Candidate needs to be a strong team player self-starter who approaches work enthusiastically demonstrates initiative and has the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong oral and written communication skills; comfortable presenting results and key themes to senior and executive management.
