Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst Opportunity

Enjoy analyzing data?

Interested in collaborating with diverse business partners?

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic and global organization?

About the Role

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you are a proactive business partner, expected to apply finance expertise to support business development and growth, while operating as efficiently and effectively as possible and maintaining a strong control and governance environment. In this role, you report to the Finance Manager R&L/Research Sales.

About the Team

Our Business Decision Support team is looking for a talented Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, analysis and reporting of headcount, labor cost, and other operating expenses as well as sales performance vs target for various A&G business units.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: In close collaboration with the business, develop forward-looking expectations for cost and headcount based on actuals, hiring and investment plans, and other business inputs; prepare headcount and cost analysis and provide insights and commentary on variance analysis.
• Management Reporting: Run specific queries and reports, reconcile data, and provide comprehensive analysis for labor cost, other indirect cost and headcount movements for various stakeholders within the A&G organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Seek and implement continuous improvements in efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of service for systems under control.
• Internal Control: Establish and execute internal control policies, support annual audits, and ensure data integrity and consistency across all financial processes.

Requirements

• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and MS Excel modeling capabilities to provide deep insights and resolve finance inquiries independently. Experience with manipulating large data sets, as well as ability to quickly learn new systems and tools.
• Self-Starter: Proactive and motivated individual with a can-do mentality, ready to take on challenges in a complex and demanding environment. Curious by nature, striving for continuous improvement.
• Team Player: Ability to assist other Analysts and Business Controllers with day-to-day operational responsibilities and ad-hoc projects.
• Quick Learner comfortable with Change: Adaptability to quickly learn and navigate our financial systems and processes.
• Communication skills and language: Strong verbal and written communication skills in English to clearly convey financial information to a range of stakeholders in our multi-national and multi-cultural environment.
• Technical skills: MS Excel – advanced user, Oracle Hyperion products and Smartview – preferable.
• Qualifications and experience: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related area. At least 3 years of experience in financial reporting, planning, and analysis, including providing commentaries.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Dutch Share Purchase Plan
• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office or commuting allowance
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Variety of online training courses and career roadshows
• Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Work from anywhere
• Employee Assistance Program (global)
• Annual Event

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

About Us

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We help researchers make new discoveries, collaborate with their colleagues, and give them the knowledge they need to find funding. We help governments and universities evaluate and improve their research strategies. We help doctors save lives, providing insight for physicians to find the right clinical answers, and we support nurses and other healthcare professionals throughout their careers. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, 38,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray’s Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group. With a wide range of technology jobs, commercial and business jobs, and graduate jobs, there is a part for everyone to play. We need talented people to help us inspire ground-breaking research.

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