Financial Business Analyst (m/f/d)

We are currently looking for a Financial Business Analyst (m/f/d)

Start: ASAP/15.04.24
End: 31.12.24
Volume: fulltime
Location: max. 4-5 onsite meetings Düsseldorf/Hannover / 95% remote

Project description: The objective of Contract and IT Sourcing Management is to source all relevant IT-Services that are to be provided from our clients IT Strategic ensuring budget adherence and fulfilment of supplier's obligations. The Financial Management Team is acting as a bridging function ensuring transparent and aligned cost management for IT infrastructure run as well as license costs. Due to the respective harmonization initiative aims for a consolidated cost management to ensure e2e process excellence as well as an efficient daily business continuity.

Background:
Evaluation of overarching process dependencies by monitoring the daily business, to capture process gaps and advise the FM Team on process optimization & automation

Tasks (performed independently):
- Process improvements in consumption and cost planning:
* Identify process improvements for drawing together information coming from the respective service owners and stakeholders, aiming at defining expected consumption values and the resulting cost. Subsequent implementation of these improvements. Getting approval from FM Team
* Continuous update with actual consumption data of teams internal Data base as a common and centrally governed financial management tool with daily rolling forecasting.
* Advise on gaps in the planning,definition of counter measures to close existing gaps and how to avoid them for the future
* Analyze the ongoing process optimization in terms of hardware planning and derive commercials related synchronizations. Based on findings, advise on how these processes can be further standardized and stabilized. Getting approval from FM Team
* Optimize and standardize the invoice planning overview and aligned processes by maintaining a transparent purchase order overview, a tracking file for the status of invoices

- Analysis for optimization and standardization with regards on existing automated & robotics solutions:
* Define measures on how to further standardize and stabilize existing automated process runs with regards to financial planning and aligned invoicing processes. Present results to FM Team
* Verify volume and cost related planning activities (esp. forecasting- and mid-term planning) on how these processes can be further standardized and stabilized
* Consult the FM team on maintaining robotics solutions in handling automated purchase ordering
* Analyze and advise on further synchronization initiatives, with regards to different corporate toolsets, like SAP FI, MS and further applications with the goal to achieve data consistency and consolidated data base.

Skills:
- Strong stakeholder& financial management experience
- Excellent Business analytical skills
- Experience reviewing existing processes and giving recommendation for improved processes
- Excellent technical skills in Microsoft office & cloud environment and business process management
tools
- Good user Knowledge on SAP FI
- Excellent language skills in English; N2H: German.