Sr. Financial Systems Accounting Analyst - Aegon Am

Company Overview: Aegon Asset Management (Aegon AM) is a leading global investor. Our 385 investment professionals manage and advise on assets of US $311 billion for a global client base of pension plans, public funds, insurance companies, banks, wealth managers, family offices and foundations. We organize our firm around four investment platforms: fixed income, real assets, equities, and multi-asset & solutions, which includes a fiduciary and multi-manager business. Each investment platform has dedicated teams with deep asset-class expertise, organized globally and committed to enhancing client benefit from their specialist areas. We are an international business: Our 1,200 employees work from 13 locations across Europe, the Americas and Asia. We share a common belief in fundamental, research-driven active management, underpinned by effective risk management and a commitment to responsible investment. Position Overview: The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for combining accounting knowledge and complex financial system knowledge to provide accurate, credible internal and external reporting information.
Responsibilities:

• Provide data quality reviews on data within systems.
• Proactively identifies improvement opportunities by exploiting system(s) capabilities to further meet divisional and/or department goals.
• Leads or coordinates system and report changes with vendor including defining and testing the changes.
• Prepare business requirement specifications for IT projects.
• Define and test system enhancements.
• Create, modify, and document processes.
• Fully capable of extracting information from the system(s) providing credible information for reporting or decision-making.
• May be responsible for formal training classes. May supervise others.
• Has an in-depth knowledge of how information is connected and relates to all systems in order to determine accuracy of data.
• Provide business system administration work for systems supporting the Real Estate Platform.
• May lead or serve as a member of divisional project teams for system conversions and enhancements.
• May coordinate development of tests matrices, procedures, and documentation.
• Ensures requesters of information have all relevant information to make a decision by surveying, probing and documenting the needs of the requester.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong Microsoft Excel and other computer skills.
• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or Real Estate or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience, with degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Detail oriented, accurate, analytical, work effectively individually and within a team, organizational skills.
• Microsoft Power Platform such as Power BI and Power Query & Business Objects skills preferred.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing, can grasp the bigger picture, prioritization skills, project management skills, the ability to communicate with IT programmers and business users.
• Additional computer classes preferred.

Job and compensation levels depend upon an applicant’s qualifications including the extent of candidate’s relevant experience and other job-related factors and will be determined by hiring supervisors/managers and HR.
At Aegon Asset Management, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We are more than a global Asset Management firm – we are a people business, and we recognize that delivering excellent client outcomes comes from embracing diverse perspectives. We value diversity in the full range of human uniqueness without limitation including race, gender, ability, language, culture, beliefs, age, origin, background, perspectives, and experiences.
We are open to considering flexible working practices. Please talk to us about what this means for you.