Senior Financial Analyst - Working Capital Management

Senior Analyst Roles & responsibilities • Collaborate with the Working Capital Controller team to support financial operations and achieve objectives across a range of business areas. • Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business operations supported, actively learning about relevant finance processes to integrate them effectively into daily tasks. • Address and resolve process and administrative queries that fall outside the scope of other Finance support teams, leveraging a workflow management system to track and manage these queries to completion. • Review Work In Progress (WIP) reports to identify areas of risk and highlight potential billing opportunities, ensuring proactive financial management. • Monitor and report any underperformance by Engagement Leaders and Managers, ensuring these issues are addressed and performance improvements are implemented where necessary. • Engage with key stakeholders, including Engagement Partners and Managers, to ensure comprehension of the lock-up cycle and meeting of lock-up targets. • Managing Lock Up Days – to regularly review WIP and debtor lock up days for Engagement Leaders, to monitor trigger points of billing/ write offs, so ensuring early revenue action to maintain optimum working capital hygiene from a WIP perspective. • Develop a thorough understanding of the business area supported, proactively keeping abreast with what services it provides, its key clients, & significant contracts • Build strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders, principally engagement leaders and managers, and middle office where applicable • Minimise lockup by reviewing unbilled revenue, validating recoverability and instigating the EL/EM/MO to act where billing action needs and/or should be taken • Monitor debt and work closely with the EL/EM to drive timely collections. Escalate aged or disputed items in-line with the credit control framework, highlighting blockers for partner intervention • Act as the first line of support for operational finance queries relating to WIP, debtors, billing, revenue processes, and engagement hygiene. Assist ELs/EMs in understanding key working capital metrics and required actions • Review engagement cost accruals, ensuring that there is no double-count with actual costs and/or overstated revenue due to a lack of accruing. Pursue action as may be required • Monitor and pursue action on engagement-related operational matters that can have an impact on lockup and revenue recognition e.g. risk blockers, EL/EM leavers whose codes haven’t been transferred to another EL/EM, work packages without billing element. Similarly, promote hygiene across the portfolio by ensuring that completed projects are closed within the system • Execute defined control activities, such as revenue reassignment and other controls within established finance processes. Ensure proper documentation and compliance per process governance • Act as an escalation point for both the requestor and the finance operations team, in transaction execution processes e.g. stalled billing or approvals • Escalate and work with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to tackle identified significant and/or systematic lockup and commercial issues • Roles & responsibilities • Collaborate with the Working Capital Controller team to support financial operations and achieve objectives across a range of business areas. • Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business operations supported, actively learning about relevant finance processes to integrate them effectively into daily tasks. • Address and resolve process and administrative queries that fall outside the scope of other Finance support teams, leveraging a workflow management system to track and manage these queries to completion. • Review Work In Progress (WIP) reports to identify areas of risk and highlight potential billing opportunities, ensuring proactive financial management. • Monitor and report any underperformance by Engagement Leaders and Managers, ensuring these issues are addressed and performance improvements are implemented where necessary. • Engage with key stakeholders, including Engagement Partners and Managers, to ensure comprehension of the lock-up cycle and meeting of lock-up targets. • Managing Lock Up Days – to regularly review WIP and debtor lock up days for Engagement Leaders, to monitor trigger points of billing/ write offs, so ensuring early revenue action to maintain optimum working capital hygiene from a WIP perspective. • Develop a thorough understanding of the business area supported, proactively keeping abreast with what services it provides, its key clients, & significant contracts • Build strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders, principally engagement leaders and managers, and middle office where applicable • Minimise lockup by reviewing unbilled revenue, validating recoverability and instigating the EL/EM/MO to act where billing action needs and/or should be taken • Monitor debt and work closely with the EL/EM to drive timely collections. Escalate aged or disputed items in-line with the credit control framework, highlighting blockers for partner intervention • Act as the first line of support for operational finance queries relating to WIP, debtors, billing, revenue processes, and engagement hygiene. Assist ELs/EMs in understanding key working capital metrics and required actions • Review engagement cost accruals, ensuring that there is no double-count with actual costs and/or overstated revenue due to a lack of accruing. Pursue action as may be required • Monitor and pursue action on engagement-related operational matters that can have an impact on lockup and revenue recognition e.g. risk blockers, EL/EM leavers whose codes haven’t been transferred to another EL/EM, work packages without billing element. Similarly, promote hygiene across the portfolio by ensuring that completed projects are closed within the system • Execute defined control activities, such as revenue reassignment and other controls within established finance processes. Ensure proper documentation and compliance per process governance • Act as an escalation point for both the requestor and the finance operations team, in transaction execution processes e.g. stalled billing or approvals • Escalate and work with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to tackle identified significant and/or systematic lockup and commercial issues • Roles & responsibilities • Collaborate with the Working Capital Controller team to support financial operations and achieve objectives across a range of business areas. • Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business operations supported, actively learning about relevant finance processes to integrate them effectively into daily tasks. • Address and resolve process and administrative queries that fall outside the scope of other Finance support teams, leveraging a workflow management system to track and manage these queries to completion. • Review Work In Progress (WIP) reports to identify areas of risk and highlight potential billing opportunities, ensuring proactive financial management. • Monitor and report any underperformance by Engagement Leaders and Managers, ensuring these issues are addressed and performance improvements are implemented where necessary. • Engage with key stakeholders, including Engagement Partners and Managers, to ensure comprehension of the lock-up cycle and meeting of lock-up targets. • Managing Lock Up Days – to regularly review WIP and debtor lock up days for Engagement Leaders, to monitor trigger points of billing/ write offs, so ensuring early revenue action to maintain optimum working capital hygiene from a WIP perspective. • Develop a thorough understanding of the business area supported, proactively keeping abreast with what services it provides, its key clients, & significant contracts • Build strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders, principally engagement leaders and managers, and middle office where applicable • Minimise lockup by reviewing unbilled revenue, validating recoverability and instigating the EL/EM/MO to act where billing action needs and/or should be taken • Monitor debt and work closely with the EL/EM to drive timely collections. Escalate aged or disputed items in-line with the credit control framework, highlighting blockers for partner intervention • Act as the first line of support for operational finance queries relating to WIP, debtors, billing, revenue processes, and engagement hygiene. Assist ELs/EMs in understanding key working capital metrics and required actions • Review engagement cost accruals, ensuring that there is no double-count with actual costs and/or overstated revenue due to a lack of accruing. Pursue action as may be required • Monitor and pursue action on engagement-related operational matters that can have an impact on lockup and revenue recognition e.g. risk blockers, EL/EM leavers whose codes haven’t been transferred to another EL/EM, work packages without billing element. Similarly, promote hygiene across the portfolio by ensuring that completed projects are closed within the system • Execute defined control activities, such as revenue reassignment and other controls within established finance processes. Ensure proper documentation and compliance per process governance • Act as an escalation point for both the requestor and the finance operations team, in transaction execution processes e.g. stalled billing or approvals • Escalate and work with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to tackle identified significant and/or systematic lockup and commercial issues • Experience Level Senior Level