Senior Analyst, France

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Please note this is a hybrid position from our Paris office. Please submit your CV in English.

The Community You Will Join

The Global Markets Strategic Finance & Analytics team provides budget oversight, reporting, strategic planning and analytical decision making support to the Global Markets team and in-region business teams across EMEA. In addition this team supports identifying and pursuing opportunities to drive growth and business impact for our international business.

The Difference You Will Make

• While your formal reporting structure is into the Director, Strategic Finance & Analytics, EMEA, on a day-to-day basis you will work closely with the cross-functional team that is based in-region.

• You will directly support Country Managers (and their teams) based around EMEA to drive clear reporting, produce actionable insight, track core KPIs, evaluate investment decisions and work cross-functionally to develop strategies to solve problems.

• The individual is expected to be a strong cross-functional business partner who has a combination of hands-on analytical skills, financial modelling expertise, commercial acumen, and the ability to package their insights into strong narratives appropriate for senior executive consumption. They will be comfortable working in cross-functional teams based in EMEA and around the world including Finance & Accounting, Business Operations, Data Science, Marketing, Product and Supply.

• The ideal candidate relishes the opportunity to roll up their sleeves to drive meaningful impact, possess strong stakeholder management skills, and is a self-starter that is comfortable with ambiguity in a fast paced global work environment.

• This person will have a high degree of visibility with senior management within the organization, including Country Managers, Regional and Finance Leaders.

A Typical Day

• Partner with a Country Manager in driving performance management, including development and ongoing analysis of KPIs, creating goals/OKRs and measuring performance.

• Develop a deep understanding of what levers drive growth and efficiency for our business and translating that into investment cases and initiatives to drive business impact.

• Partnering with the business on annual planning and budgeting, laying out risks and opportunities and debating strategies and capital allocation to maximise growth.

• Stepping in to lead EMEA’s monthly business review and speaking to key drivers of variance to goal and potential actions to improve performance.

• Modelling and summarising the implications of a regulatory action and potential mitigating actions we could take to minimize business impact.

• Joining a call with the Regional Marketing team to discuss changes to channel or country spend and helping bridge local and regional considerations.

• Digging into the regional impact of a global product feature and identifying relevant regional insights that could point to local optimization opportunities.

• Analytical deep dives: Conduct deep dives into business trends across EMEA and different segments of the business. Independently lead data extraction, analysis, visualization, and presentation.

• Build ad hoc reporting and analysis to help business operations and other cross functional partners understand the drivers of performance for key performance indicators.

Your Expertise

• 3+ years of relevant experience. Ideally, you have demonstrated relevant experience in an analytical role such as Strategic Finance, Financial Planning and Analytics (FP&A), Strategy/Management Consulting, Investment Banking or Business Operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, accounting, engineering, statistics or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative orientation; MBA or advanced degree a plus.

• Superb financial modeling and quantitative analysis skills, SQL experience highly preferred.

• Strong analytical abilities and able to synthesize complex information. You enjoy absorbing large amounts of data and qualitative insights and can quickly develop a strong narrative that leads to recommendations and builds our understanding of the business.

• Stakeholder Management: The ability to work and influence cross-functional in a matrixed business environment is a must. You are proactive, great at communicat