Senior Financial Analyst

Job Title: Senior Financial Analyst

Location(s): Heidelberg or Dordrecht

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About the Role

Functional Controlling Center of Excellence aims to provide exceptional in-depth business analysis and insight to partners across the business. We support the finance business partners with the closing-, budget- and forecasting process, review, and report on investment projects, drive the driver-based analysis and provide expertise in specialist financial analysis. As a central part of the Management Reporting, Planning and Analysis team we additionally drive continuous improvement of all related processes. The team consists of 20+ colleagues working from 10 different locations.

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting the financials and non-financial KPIs of journals, providing insights and recommendations to support society journal renewal, continuously improving workflows and leveraging automation. Additionally, you will oversee strategic projects and/or group initiatives and support investment cases evaluations. Collaboration with key stakeholders will be essential to this role. The ideal candidate will have strong financial modeling skills, experience in forecasting, and the ability to interact with multiple stakeholders to drive business success.

This role can be in our Heidelberg or Dordrecht office on a hybrid working model.

Role Responsibilities:

• Support the performance assessment of defined journals, by providing financial data, analysis, and forecasting, including non-financial KPIs.
• Define parameters and assumptions for modeling journal performance reviews.
• Prepare multiple years forecasts for journal P&Ls and provide actionable recommendations. Advise on risks and opportunities related to society journal renewal.
• Continuously enhance the forecasting tools and workflows to streamline the renewal and forecasting process and implement automation to improve efficiency.
• Liaise with key stakeholders to gather relevant data for informed decision-making.
• In addition to financial forecasting and journal performance analysis, this position extends to overseeing strategic projects, group initiatives and investments.
• Conduct initial evaluations of submitted investment cases, and provide preliminary feedback to refine and enhance business proposals before final approval
• Facilitate the investment case approval process by coordinating presentations, ensuring investment cases adhere to the investment guidelines.
• Track the actual financial performances of group projects and/or initiatives against budget, MTP and original plans
• Drive AI initiatives and leverage technology to enhance data analysis and forecasting capabilities. Take on data driven analysis as required.
• Perform other tasks as requested, including ad hoc tasks and responsibilities that may arise to support the needs of the team and business

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• Degree in Finance or related field and/or comparable qualification (e.g. Certified Chartered Accountant or Registered Controller)
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams in a complex, changing environment to deliver value-added results to the organization
• Proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting techniques and business case preparation
• Knowledge of the (journal) publishing industry highly preferable
• 5+ years of experience in Controlling
• Depth and breadth of technical finance knowledge
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability of SAP finance/controlling system environment as well as excellent Excel and Analysis for Office skills
• Data science knowledge is a plus
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Relationship builder
• Strong presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with both senior business management and senior finance management

Note for candidates in the Netherlands: As per our local policy, please be aware that this role will be open only for internal candidates within the first 2 weeks. Afterwards, external applications will be progressed

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