Analyst - Operational Finance

The Cashflow Analyst is responsible for analyzing, documenting, configuring and maintaining the actual and forecast cashflows across all relevant Treasury/Finance systems for the Dentsu Group, globally, for the benefit of the group. Job Description: Key responsibilities: · Support the in-country deployment of Cashflow Forecasts, Bank Transaction Journals, and CashPooling Structures across Dentsu to the following KPIs: o On time delivery o To the correct quality specification o Aligned to the global model o Within Budget · Analyse Bank Statement data and draft new cash flow rules to categorise actual transactions across all transaction types, ensuring accuracy and completeness of actual cash flows. · Analyse forecast data to ensure accuracy and completeness of forecast cash flows. · Analyse Working Capital Statistics to ensure accuracy and help identify business improvements via the Working Capital Dashboard reporting. · Analyse camt bank statement data to support the statement migration project. · Configure and unit test cash flow rules in the Coupa Treasury system. · Provide Treasury system and business process support to Coupa Treasury global rollouts with specific relevance to cash flow forecasting, cash management, cash applications, and bank reconciliation processes. · Work with the Treasury Project Management to assist with the integration of planning data from all relevant Dentsu local market systems (e.g. media systems, ERPs, other finance systems, etc). · Ready test environments for each relevant market in readiness for E2E and UAT testing and provide testing support. · Provide support to testers and Finance Transformation teams during testing, to help close/solve outstanding VSTS cases. · Attend regular project meetings with Treasury Project Management and local project resources, to ensure adherence to project plans. · Update Treasury Management regularly with statuses on actions. Professional skills: · Graduate/master’s degree in commerce/MBA/semi-qualified Chartered Accountant with 6 to 8 years of experience. Clear record of driving end-to-end process improvements, automations using AI. Senior stakeholder management skills. · Experience with data modelling or finance data analysis. · Experience with Treasury or cashflow analysis is preferred but is not essential. · Knowledge of bank statement data, and invoice data. · Excellent stakeholder management skills. · Excellent communication, both written and verbal, skills to ensure that all project teams are supported through the project delivery lifecycle. · Process-led thinking to ensure that business processes can be challenged without conflict and processes can be reviewed and improved. · Ability to work without being micro-managed on a daily or weekly basis. · Awareness of when to escalate issues and problems to project managers in a timely manner. · Has a clear eye for detail. · Will not let a challenge drop until it has been resolved.