Financial Analyst - Business Support - Finance & Administration

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What's the role?

At Bloomberg Finance, we are committed to providing world-class support to our business leaders by providing insight on business performance, financial oversight and thought leadership.

The role sits within the Finance and Administration team, which is a growing team, comprising six people currently, who are responsible for providing critical financial support to Finance and other corporate functions. That support includes monthly financial and management reporting, workforce reporting and analysis, financial projections, and analysis of strategic and operational decisions.

As a Financial Analyst, you will support the Team Lead and Senior Finance Analysts and be responsible for owning key processes, and contributing to workforce reporting and forecasting, financial management reporting, analytics, variance analysis and operations function of the department.

We'll trust you to:

• Support finance transformation projects, including high impact work to enhance existing reporting processes, and streamline underlying data architecture to support the analytical needs of Bloomberg Finance
• Support the monthly, quarterly and annual reporting and variance analysis for key finance departments, headcount and expense lines; partner with Corporate Accounting team to support month end close processes
• Develop relationships and interact with key stakeholders to support monthly reporting and variance analysis
• Support ad-hoc financial analysis and decision support that requires preparing and modelling large datasets
• Own detailed processes and preliminary reporting for Workforce management, and work with the Recruitment teams on headcount pipeline analysis and reporting
• Contribute to the forecasting and budgeting process for specific areas within the Finance Admin function
• Learn and develop an understanding of Bloomberg products and the Finance function that can be applied to the analysis of key variance drivers

You'll need to have:

• A bachelor's degree
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in Finance and/or Accounting
• Strong organizational skills, effective interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and stakeholders
• Ownership over the analysis and reporting within a defined scope
• Proficient quantitative, financial and data manipulation skills and exceptional attention to detail
• The ability to confidently work with data, identifying business trends and be able to create insightful analysis

We'd love to see:

• The ability to show initiative to identify improvements to processes and reports and question the status quo.
• Experience with Microsoft products, particularly Excel, and Enterprise software applications e.g. SAP
• A collaborative approach to working with teams in other parts of the organization, to develop mutually beneficial solutions.

Does this sound like you?

Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know that the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/

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Salary Range: 70,000 - 115,000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation [Exempt roles only], paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.