Analytics & Insights Manager - Accounting
Company Description
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Job Description
This position reports to: Senior Manager, Finance Analytics & Insights
The role:
As a member of the Finance Analytics and Insights team, this role will focus on building out advanced analytics and reporting in support of Accounting processes. The preferred candidate will have experience working with revenue, cost and financial reporting datasets, developing analytical tools and operational dashboards, and applying creative problem solving and an attention to detail to extract actionable insights. They will work closely with leaders and process owners within Accounting to enable data-driven decision making and operational excellence.
What you get to do in this role:
- Develop and implement analytics roadmap for Accounting, including advancing regular use of key dashboards and reports among stakeholder teams and ensuring data integrity and accessibility
- Design, develop and maintain functional and operational self-service dashboards and reports to support monthly and quarterly reporting schedules and variance analyses
- Work with large, complex data sets to prepare regular and ad-hoc analysis and interpretation of key financial drivers and trends and communicate findings to leadership team
- Drive greater adoption of advanced analytics and automation to enable current and future processes to scale with business growth
- Develop measurement systems to monitor improvement initiatives and support future modifications to processes, controls and platforms
- Engage with senior management team to determine business requirements, prioritize functional analytics portfolio, and deliver reliable and robust reporting and business insights
- Collaborate with peers in Finance Analytics & Insights team to align and deliver functional analytics roadmaps, development of Finance data-lake, and key demand intake and product delivery processes
- Define required data integration requirements between various systems and work with extended team to get them created
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Computer Science, Data Analytics or related field from a four-year university. Masters degree in management information systems or data science is a plus
- 10+ years of overall experience with at least 5 years in BI and data analytics, preferably in a SaaS or PaaS company or business unit
- 2+ years of experience in Accounting and financial data analysis
- Experience with reporting & dashboarding platforms - Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, SAP BOBJ
- Experience with databases & data modelling – SAP Hana. Advanced data modeling and statistical capabilities preferred (regression analysis, clustering, forecasting, pattern recognition)
- Self-motivated and highly organized with the ability to develop creative solutions and balance multiple requests
- Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with others
- Comfortable and flexible working in a fast-paced environment
Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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