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London (hybrid working)
Contract until December 2025
What The Hiring Manager Says
This is an opportunity to join the Finance team as an interim Finance Reporting Analyst. GSMA is striving for more efficient and automated reporting and data analytics to support the wider business but also to provide a framework to allow the Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to provide detailed, structured, meaningful and timely value add analysis and reporting to their stakeholders that will be used to underpin decision making across the business.
Department:
Finance
Team:
Finance Business Partnering
Location:
London (hybrid working)
Position type:
Contract until December 2025
What The Hiring Manager Says
This is an opportunity to join the Finance team as an interim Finance Reporting Analyst. GSMA is striving for more efficient and automated reporting and data analytics to support the wider business but also to provide a framework to allow the Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to provide detailed, structured, meaningful and timely value add analysis and reporting to their stakeholders that will be used to underpin decision making across the business.
The role reports to the Head of Finance Business Partnering (HoFBP) and will work closely with the FBP team and other stakeholders across the business including specifically IT and the Events business to develop and implement robust KPI & financial reporting, tracking and forecasting.
Claire Knapman, Head of Finance Business Partnering
About The Team
The Finance team is based in London with some regional staff and business partners located in Spain, USA Nairobi, Delhi and Shanghai.
About The Role
The Finance Reporting Analyst will be responsible for building and enhancing reporting in Workday, with a focus on standardisation & consistency; creating dashboards; and evolving and enhancing the month-end reporting packs. The role also involves training the FBP team to enable them to build and adapt their own reports, as well as developing new reporting that will involve working with large data sets and translating them into meaningful analysis.
Tasks Include
- Build new and enhance existing reports in Workday, amending existing reports to align with business needs
- Adapt month-end reporting pack for more efficient updates, streamlining the report download process so the production of monthly reporting is seamless
- With the Workday & Corporate Systems Lead, explore Excel add-in as a reporting solution, followed by re-building reporting pack using new tool, so the pack can be refreshed on-demand
- Understand FBP teams' reporting requirements and adapt existing reports accordingly, also creating dashboards in Hub for each business area
- Develop a suite of reports for routine and ad hoc reporting but also to provide easier analysis, which can be used by the FBP team
- Train the team on building and maintaining their own reports and Dashboards for their respective business areas
- Audit existing reports and dashboards in Workday and hide or delete redundant reports. Create a structured report directory with descriptions and communicate to relevant stakeholders
- Explore additional reporting/dashboard functionality in Workday
- Tidy up project codes (working with FBP team to de-activate old codes) and align with cost centre structure for consistency. Explore download formats so mapping tables can be easily produced
- Work with Workday & Corporate Systems Lead to develop Workday to incorporate grouping/tagging functionality to provide additional layers to our reporting and analysis
- Collaborate with Financial Accounting team to further develop the integrated reporting for Management and Statutory accounts, also looking at Entity level reporting as well as Cashflow forecasting
- Assist in forecasting and budgeting
- Support Head of Finance Business Partnering HoFBP) and Head of People Business Partnering (HoPBP) with financial modelling, including for workforce planning; maintain data integrity in the models
- Ensure submission templates have been completed accurately by the FBP team and support HoFBP with the preparation of the consolidated Budget
- Support FBP team with Budget upload process and reconciliation in Workday, including the upload of staff costs budgets
- Support HoFBP and HoPBP with capturing detailed system requirements for Workforce Planning and support with implementation of the tool
- Support the FBPs by working with Salesforce Transformation team to ensure reporting requirements are clearly understood, tested effectively and reporting needs are met
- Work with Events FBP to develop detailed and timely KPI reporting and analysis. Working with Power BI developers & other stakeholders in Events, to capture detailed requirements for transitioning Events reporting to Power BI
Capabilities
The key capabilities for this role are:
- Finance background with experience of P&L reporting and budgeting
- Excel financial modelling skills and attention to detail
- Confident working with large data sets and translating them into meaningful analysis
- Experience with Workday and Workday reporting is a benefit
- Experience with Salesforce is a benefit
- Effective Communicator
About You
You will have experience in Finance and be comfortable with P&L reporting and budgeting, but also working with data sets to develop efficient, logical and controlled structures from which to report, analyse and interpret. You will have strong stakeholder management skills, working closely with stakeholders to understand their reporting requirements, but also with IT to understand system capabilities and finding solutions that bring efficiencies, standardisation and consistency in the way we report and budget. You will be a problem solver and someone who is resourceful and enjoys looking for solutions to address challenges and inefficient ways of working.
Contract type
Short term Contractor
Worker type
Contingent Worker
What We Offer
Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture - they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we're always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other's successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we're at our best - we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren't at our best and the pressure is on - we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
Seniority level
- Seniority level Entry level
Employment type
- Employment type Full-time
Job function
- Job function Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
- Industries Telecommunications
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