senior Financial AnalystPearson

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Role Summary:
We are recruiting this Senior Financial Analyst role within Pearson Finance Services (PFS) to support the Marketing Team of Pearson Virtual Schools. This role will prepare and deliver financial planning and analysis to business areas enabling effective business decision making. This role will also be expected to contribute to aspects of the budgeting and forecasting cycle.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with Marketing/Media to ensure all forecasted spend is accrued in Coupa/Oracle
Ensuring invoices are paid in a timely and accurate manner while adhering to departmental procedures.
Analyze workflow processes for different accounting systems within Pearson (Coupa, Markview)
Ensure all vendors are paid in a timely manner to avoid suspension of marketing campaigns.
Work with global procurement to adhere with auditing policy for purchase orders created by the accounting team.
Reconcile marketing campaign back to Oracle/Coupa for business decisions made by the marketing team.
Provide payment activity to existing vendors.
Provide forecast spend to finance from marketing.
Lead team training for Coupa/Markview to Marketing team
Reconcile actual spend to forecasting
Ensure all forecasts spend is updated with budget changes within the current month to PO's
Support departmental invoices for Marketing teams
Provide vendor support for statements
Assist with new supplier onboarding
Approvals from Media/Marketing to create PO's on a monthly basis
Work with Finance team to review any open PO's from previous months
Manage monthly finance close process, reporting accruals and reclassing prior months spend
Leadership Capabilities:
Ability to Influence Others - Identifies the agendas, concerns, and motivations of interested others, and is persuasive when positioning ideas and arguments to address them. Proactively cultivates networks with key individuals across functions to gain support for ideas, creating a foundation for future influence. Ensures that all proposals or arguments are fully supported by strong logic and a compelling business case, addressing all relevant factors.
Communication - Communicates financial information and concepts in a clear, precise, thorough manner to meet the needs of both finance and non-finance audiences. Ensures that own positions effectively address others' needs and priorities, and that concerns are openly discussed and addressed. Projects self-assurance and unshakable confidence to influence outcomes with persuasiveness and candor. Appreciates the diversity of stakeholder interactions and adapts personal style as well as approach accordingly.
Strategic Decision Making - Critically and logically evaluates potential short- and long-term costs, risks, and benefits of alternatives before making key decisions. Critically and logically evaluates the costs, risks, and benefits of alternatives before making decisions.
Accountability and Ownership - Prioritizes and balances, organizes, and allocates time, actions, and resources to generate significant positive results and achieve critical goals, even in fast-moving or uncertain situations. Anticipates and decisively intervenes, addressing and removing obstacles, and redirects efforts to accelerate work, improves quality, moves the work forward, and/or gets efforts back on track.
Collaboration and Partnering - Identifies opportunities and take actions to build relationships between own area and other teams/departments to help achieve business goals.
Change Management Capability - Understands the change management process. Able to influence and lead others to embrace change positively in support of organizational objectives.
Prioritization - Juggles many priorities and competing demands for one's time. Understands the importance of materiality when prioritizing work
Qualifications/Experience Required:
5 years minimum experience in a Financial Planning and Analysis role
Strong accounting knowledge with experience in project accounting- holding a recognized professional accountancy qualification (consideration will be given to candidates without a qualification who can demonstrate they meet the other experience requirements)
Excellent understanding of materiality and ability to prioritize across competing demands
Experience of finance ERP systems (Oracle preferred but not essential)
Experience with predictive modeling & data visualization tools (i.e., Alteryx and Tableau) is a plus
Understanding of financial control, business performance management and process optimization and experience of working in more than one of these areas
Advanced user of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel (v-lookups, sum-ifs, pivot tables etc.)
High commitment to quality to ensure reports are prepared accurately first time
A self-starter who is motivated to work under own initiative demonstrating initiative and sound judgement.
Ability to work as part of a wider management team, identifying and providing support to colleagues
Ability to work to strict deadlines and to be able to prioritize to meet those deadlines
Experience working in a multi-national matrix organization
Experience transitioning finance activities between locations/groups.
Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience. We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity. The information you provide will stay confidential and be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process.
Job: FINANCE
Organization: Corporate Finance
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Req ID: 8092
Pearson

Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time