Senior Financial Analyst - Operations & Technology Strategic Initiatives Reporting
John Hancock Manulife
The Senior Finance Analyst will be responsible for managing the tracking and oversight over the Global Operations and Global Technology strategic financial strategies. This role will be very important to help keep Global Technology and Global Operations on track for their financial commitments and assist with creating reporting that will provide valuable insight to project leaders and executive stakeholders. This job description does not represent a comprehensive listing of job duties that are required of the employee performing this role. We reserve the right to change duties or assign additional duties at any time with or without notice.
The position provides a challenging opportunity to learn about various businesses, gain an understanding of operating and control environments, play an integral role in fulfilling key deliverables, and work with seasoned professionals of accounting, audit, and financial reporting backgrounds.
Position Responsibilities:
- Develop a new PBI tool that will extract important information from the GIA (Global Initiatives App) tool to be used to track targeted and forecasted saves for every initiative within the Global Operations (GOS) and Global Technology (GTV) strategies.
- Coordinate with the GIA team to continually build enhancements to this reporting
- Coordination and integration with Planview tool which is used to track initiative saves in Asia segment to created global consolidated reporting
- Become the first line of contact for progress on strategic initiative financial reporting
- Track savings for individual initiatives at the segment level
- Identify gaps in project & initiative efficiency saves compared to targets and collaborate with segment / initiative owners on root causes, mitigations, and impact to overall segment expense targets
- Participate in GOS and GTV steerco by providing critical information and analysis on the health of savings and commentary on key successes, issues, and other important information
- Create materials for Monthly Operating Results (MOR) reporting
- Collaborate with segment leaders to ensure that GIA and Planview are updated correctly
- Assist with the governance of GOS and GTV by assisting with the tracking and development of other adjacent KPIs, supporting the annual budgeting process, and other items
Review & Supervision Responsibilities:
Review work of Finance MBPS staff when needed
Ensure sufficient documentation and cross trainings to ensure high quality of work from the team
Other duties as assigned Shared Responsibilities: Collaborate Team Support
Assists on various projects and analyses
Identify and execute process and report improvement opportunities
Throughout,
maintain high quality customer service levels
identify process streamlining and automation opportunities; influence actions to implement
be receptive to all efforts to integrate with the Onshore Team
Requirements Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent work experience, CPA designation is a plus
- 5+ years of relevant experience in FP&A
- Hybrid Work Arrangement: Amenability and readiness to work onsite and from home anytime (dependent on business need AND/OR current external environment/situation) and must be willing to work on a mid-shift schedule
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Detail-oriented, well-organized, and excellent analytical skills
- Self-starter and team player with a high level of initiative, strong work ethic and the ability to gather, synthesize, organize, and report information
- Ability to multi-task and manage priorities in a demanding and deadline-oriented environment
- Recommending and implementing process improvements
- Knowledge of Power BI (intermediate experience)
- Knowledge of Anaplan is a plus
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, etc.) and ability to analyze large volumes of data
When you join our team:
- We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
- We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
- As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.
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