Senior Analyst Finance (Data & BI Reporting)

Keywords Studios, established in Dublin in 1998, now has 70+ studios across Europe, North and South America and Asia with 13,000 employee strength located across 5 continents and 26 countries. The company provides a complete outsourced game art, engineering, testing, audio and localization service for all Console, PC, Handheld and Mobile content, to many of the biggest names in games and interactive entertainment, working on thousands of titles including many of the best-selling titles of the past few years.

Keywords Studios is comprised of many individual brands, all with something unique to offer our clients. The studios are integrated into the Group by Service Line and use the operating systems and tools deployed by those services lines to ensure people and projects can operate across studios and across geographies.

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Job Overview:

Working closely with the Head of Data & BI Reporting, this role will help set the standards for data quality, KPIs and BI reporting tools used across the Finance function. The role will assist in the development and maintenance of the Finance function’s data strategy, ensuring it is aligned with business goals and value drivers. This will include participating in governance frameworks to ensure the highest levels of data quality, definitions and compliance tracking. The role will take part in activities to refine and automate reporting of KPIs and assist in the adoption of scaleable, secure and user-friendly BI tools and participate in initiatives to enhance, standardize and integrate systems used across the Finance function including ERP and planning and reporting tools. The role will work in collaboration with Divisional and other functional teams to influence KWS data strategy and explore opportunities to implement emerging technologies and approaches in BI and analytics and be a strong advocate for our Finance Excellence vision to be trusted business partners that champion growth, create value and manage risk.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

The Data and BI Reporting Senior Analyst will ensure delivery of the following key activities:

● Data Governance & Compliance

• Support the maintenance of the Finance data strategy, aligning it with business goals and drivers of value and growth.
• Participate in activities to establish, champion and manage a robust governance framework to ensure the highest level of Finance data quality, compliance, and stewardship.
• Propose opportunities to improve data quality across the Finance function and with Divisions and other non-Finance functions, helping to devise and implement plans to source and maintain key data sets.
• Work towards ensuring that data maintained across the suite of Finance systems (ERP, EPM, BI and other tools) is consistently applied, integrated appropriately and that effort to manipulate or correct data is eliminated across all Finance FP&A planning and reporting processes.
• Maintain and validate financial data in Finance systems and perform regular data quality checks and reconciliations between source systems and reporting tools.
• Contribute to the maintenance of internal controls related to data and its use and monitor compliance.
• As directed, troubleshoot data issues and coordinate with teams across Finance and other function for resolution.
• Take part in activities across the Finance functions to advocate for the importance of high quality data and its importance to decision making.

BI Tools Development and Adoption

• Maintain a suite of business intelligence and other tools used to support Group FP&A planning and reporting process and support activities to drive convergence towards a target set of applications consistently used across the Finance teams.
• Input to the BI roadmap, helping to ensure insight and analytics underpin the activities of the Group FP&A team.
• Help build, refine and maintain BI data models, dashboards and reporting on behalf of the Group FP&A team, ensuring that technology, data and processes are fit for purpose, capable of delivering required KPIs and analysis in a user friendly way.
• Collaborate with team members across Finance to maximize the use of standard BI tools and minimize use of off line excel reporting and non standard tools.
• Support the development and maintenance of any BI tools used for Group FP&A reporting and planning.
• As required, research opportunities to enhance the BI tools in use to improve the speed, accuracy and visualization of presentations used for decision making.
• Take part in activities to automate data processes and improve efficiency.
• Document workflows, data dictionaries and BI system procedures.
• Participate in initiatives to improve the overall suite of Finance systems.

KPIs and Strategic Analysis

• Input to the definition and reporting of KPIs used for Financial reporting and decision making.
• Research opportunities to enhance the KPIs used across the Finance function, sourcing the data, automating the KPI reporting of gaining support for their adoption.
• Track compliance with the use of KPIs and the accuracy of source data on which they are prepared.
• Assist in the development of robust financial models and develop strategic analysis to identify opportunities for growth and to mitigate risk.
• Participate in initiatives and projects sponsored by CFO to drive growth and performance improvement.

Risk, Compliance & Controls

• Support the tracking of appropriate access controls and auditability (e.g. via log-filing etc.).
• Support regulatory reporting needs (financially and from a risk perspective).
• Input to activities to mitigate data-related operational and reputational risks.
• Contribute to the implementation of adequate BCM.

Finance Team Management and Collaboration

Work as key member of the Group FP&A team and the wider Finance team, helping to shape, advocate for and deliver our Finance Excellence vision to be trusted business partners that champion growth, create value and manage risk.

Job Requirements

This is an intermediate level role in the organization that requires a capable Senior Finance Analyst with relevant experience in maintaining data governance frameworks, contributing to the development of BI strategies and maintaining systems to support Global FP&A planning and reporting processes in a global organization. Experience in developing KPIs and supporting their adoption as well as being able to develop and use BI tools to support FP&A reporting and analysis are also expected. It is essential that the preferred candidate will bring with them:

• MBA in Finance
• Experience of participating in Finance data, BI, or analytics programs.
• Experience working in finance teams, preferably within large, complex, data driven multinational organisations.
• Expertise in maintaining data governance frameworks and supporting adoption of data standards to achieve high levels of data quality.
• Proficiency in BI tools (currently with PowerBI) and broad based experience with Finance systems e.g. Netsuite, Workday, Tagetik.
• Good communication and collaborative approach to working with Finance team members.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Some experience of managing change across FP&A processes.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Role Information: IN

Studio: Location: Keywords India

Area of Work: Finance

Service: Support

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: In-Office