Senior Manager - Cost CoE

• Expertise of cost analysis across account lines and understanding of cost accounting.
• Preparation of Rolling Forecast, collaborate with the forecast owners or directs of Business Finance Technology Leadership Group using IT Planning, align Anaplan and IT Planning forecast.
• Drive Quarterly Technology Forecast Recharges and socialisation process of the same to gather feedback from Business Finance counterparts and incorporating them within the same Forecast cycle.
• Apptio support for monthly actual recharges feed to Management Accounts including pre month end validation and reconciliation.
• Own monthly IT Planning processes and maintenance from Technology and Digital Business Finance team, drive process and system improvements for the same
• Provide regular financials update on Direct Cost and Headcount for Actuals and Rolling Forecast to Technology Leadership areas.
• Review of monthly and year to date vendor spend during pre and post month end close and comparison against forecast. Close collaboration with procurement team to streamline processes.
• Review and rectification of requisitions as part of purchase order staging activity.
• Review and analysis of monthly service charges and allocations to businesses, provide explanations of variance to budget.
• Provide various ad hoc analysis to stakeholders under challenging time frames.
• Partnering with the business to understand requirements, challenge existing processes for rationalisation and design plan to understand unmet demands
• Relationship building and stakeholder management across geographies with other Business Finance teams, TRMO and Financial Control teams.
• Understand FIL’s business / client landscape and identify opportunities in collaboration with the business representatives based on business knowledge that aims to improve the overall customer experience.
• Propose solutions to solve strategic, tactical, structured, and unstructured business problems, e.g. cost transparency, and profitability, amongst the others

• At least 7-10 years overall experience
• A qualified accountant/MBA
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
• Knowledge of Essbase, SmartView, Oracle Fusion, Apptio, visualisation tools like Alteryx and Tableau would be an advantage.
• Good Communication skills
• Good financial analysis skills including, knowledge of accounting principles and industry standard packages

• Exposure and good understanding of financial services domain
• Experience of working with multi-cultural teams in a geographically diverse environment
• Ability to learn and quickly get familiar with a complex business and systems environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think laterally to arrive at a solution
• Must have an eye for detail and analyse/relate to the business problem in hand
• Ability to develop & maintain good relationships with all business and systems stakeholders
• Self-motivation is essential, should demonstrate commitment to high quality solution
• Ability to discuss both business and related technology/system at various levels
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills and proven working experience in project management
• Outstanding analytical skills including analysing data, workflow, user or stakeholder inputs and ability to convert it into business outcomes
• Good analytical, judgment and decision-making ability along with critical thinking skills
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
• Ability to discuss both business and related technology/system at various levels
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think laterally to arrive at a solution

Fidelity International