In this exciting role as Senior Cost Analyst you will proactively support the Senior Manager on driving cost discipline, costs efficiency initiatives and ensure insightful cost management analysis. You will be key on building up KPI’s and other performance indicators supporting the Bank cost management strategy. As a senior member of the Cost Management area, you will also coordinate and ensure accurate planning, analysis and reporting cycle activities for different areas of the bank.
We at Cembra constantly strive to learn, collaborate efficiently and are eager to shape the future together. Join us!

Your tasks

  • Work closely with the bank departments and cost owners to understand processes and develop productivity and costs efficiency metrics.
  • Drive development of sound KPI’s to measure and report performance across key operational areas.
  • Responsible for planning, analysis and reporting of specific areas of the Bank bringing analytical and forward-looking insights to support decision making on spend allocation.
  • Ensure closing and monthly cycles activities including variances analysis, accruals for some areas/costs lines of the Bank.
  • Lead cost savings initiatives across all the areas of the bank, build up a framework including reporting, process and ownership in different operational areas.
  • Deliver on automation and simplification initiatives in collaboration with the rest of the team to achieve improvements on reporting process, tools and forecasting models.
  • Lead monitoring of internal cost governance activities, process controls in compliance to US GAAP standards.
  • Analyze costs and benefits of investments from business case evaluation to tracking and reporting of costs and benefits realization. Proactively propose and implement frameworks and processes accordingly to reporting requirements.

Your profile

  • Ideally 5+ year of experience in a Financial Analyst position, experience on costs Management analysis in the Banking industry is highly appreciated.
  • Project cost and operating expense analytics experience, preferably
    under US GAAP standards.
  • Advanced in Microsoft Excel and comfortable processing significant volume of data in a structured manner. Experience with Qlik Sense or other visualization and reporting tool is an advantage.
  • High enthusiasm about process and tool automation.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills to collaborate cross functionally.

Working hours

Home Office possible up to 60%

Contact

Barbara Tobio Phillips
HR Manager

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