Senior Financial analyst

Company Overview

GEP is a diverse, creative team of people passionate about procurement. We invest ourselves entirely in our client’s success, creating strong collaborative relationships that deliver extraordinary value year after year. Our clients include market global leaders with far-flung international operations, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, leading government and public institutions. 

We deliver practical, effective services and software that enable procurement leaders to maximise their impact on business operations, strategy and financial performance. That’s just some of the things that we do in our quest to build a beautiful company, enjoy the journey and make a difference. GEP is a place where individuality is prized, and talent respected. We’re focused on what is real and effective. GEP is where good ideas and great people are recognized, results matter, and ability and hard work drive achievements. We’re a learning organization, actively looking for people to help shape, grow and continually improve us.

Are you one of us?

GEP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to hiring and valuing a global diverse work team.

For more information please visit us on GEP.com or check us out on LinkedIn.com.

What you will do

We are seeking a meticulous and dedicated Financial Forecasting Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation, supporting quarterly spend forecasts, ensuring financial data accuracy, and managing tracking, reporting, and quality control processes.

Key Responsibilities:

A. Documentation

• Develop and maintain training materials, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), risk assessment documents, best practices, wikis/hubs, and other relevant documentation.

B. Forecast Support with Spend Forecast Manager (SFM)

• Provide quarterly support for uploading forecast spreadsheets into SFM.
• Update and review syntax in SFM for both build and non-build projects.
• Continuously clean up financial data to ensure the accuracy of financial reports, including mapping POs, forecasting POs, linking planned spend to POs, and using shared product codes.
• Maintain the forecast baseline in the SFM tool.

C. Tagging & Burn-Down for Build/Non-Build Planned Spends

• Support budget maintainers in updating SFM planned spend items to reflect necessary changes and updates in syntax.
• Coordinate with project coordinators, budget owners, and S&O teams to ensure the accuracy of reporting for forecasting, budgeting, and build data.
• Report on progress, highlight issues, and provide solutions.

D. Tracking, Reporting & Maintenance

• Develop and maintain a dashboard of finance data to support accuracy and ongoing tracking.
• Conduct weekly/monthly data integrity checks, including clean-up, mapping, forecasting, linking, and updating syntax.
• Provide supportive analytics and tracking.

E. Quality Control & SFM Integrity

• Perform periodic quality checks of invoices for accuracy and ensure the receipt of any deliverable or service greater than $100k.
• Ensure PO detail accuracy in alignment with best practices and templates, including dates received, amounts, descriptions, etc., to facilitate ease of forecasting and updating in the SFM tool.
• Maintain integrity between finance tools (e.g., esbase) and SFM.

What you should bring

• Knowledge of project management and sourcing
• Financial analysis and quantitative skills
• Business acumen: Understanding how markets work
• Change Mgmt. Skills: Effective influencer who can make persuasive arguments
• Negotiation skills includes building eAuction strategies
• Excellent communication – written and verbal