Senior Financial Analyst

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Your key tasks 

• Identify pain points for Finance Leadership, collaborate across finance organization and deliver projects / initiatives.
• Work Closely with technical team to develop the proper solution as business needs.
• Create documentation for new business project proposals and use cases.
• Break down complex tasks into simple easy to understand language.
• Leading Weekly Team meetings & driving discussions.
• Communicate project guidelines between business, IT and executive teams.
• Provide updates on project outcomes to Finance Leadership.
• Formulate Business Cases and drive the improvements across organization.
• Work closely with business stakeholders and technical team on use cases
• Communicate and drive the adoption and alignment of standards, policies and procedures across the project.
• Oversee the implementation of new technology and systems.
• Run workshops and training sessions.
• Explore different solutions, their risks, benefits and impacts.
• Proposing solutions to an organization's leaders and keeping them updated with progress.
• Creating documents to outline the proposed changes and the steps involved.
• Ensuring the changes are made – for example, by overseeing the implementation of new technology or a new approach.

Qualifications

• Graduate in Mathematics, Business, Economics.
• 4-8 years total experience in business analysis, managing finance products.
• Proven ability to work in a team environment, creating partnerships across multiple levels.
• JIRA/ Agile experience mandatory (Responsible to maintain JIRA Board updated)
• Proficient with MS Excel
• Prior experience with Data Analysis.
• Strong analytical skills- prior experience of working on big data analytics projects – Preferred.
• Strong business acumen (of whichever industry the candidate belongs)
• Ability to multi-task and be proactive & independent in a dynamic environment.
• Highly motivated individual with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strategic and Critical approach towards solving problems and decision making.
• Results-oriented; proven ability to prioritize, drive and achieve results.
• Demonstrated drive for results, with appropriate attention to details.
• Project management experience - road map creation, requirement gathering, defining vision, execution of road map, execute strategy.
• Cross functional team collaboration

It would be a real bonus if you have

• MBA is preferred.
• Experience in Finance Analytics (is a plus)
• Prior experience with SAP is a plus.
• Proficiency in MS PowerPoint is a plus
• SQL query language is a huge plus

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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