Senior Financial Analyst- Accounting

Senior Financial Analyst- Accounting

Department: Tax & Accounting - Financial Reporting

Location: Pune, India

Role Overview

As a Senior Financial Analyst in our Pune office, India, you will play a key role supporting the Senior Manager in helping to create a systematic approach for optimizing operational business processes to enhance efficiency, cost effectiveness, profitability and customer satisfaction.

You will be responsible for:

• Financial modeling – assist with generating financial models based on contracts or historical performance with rigorous analysis
• Strong Business Management background  - Be technically conversant so that you can confidently collaborate with and align stakeholders and peers from Technology, Finance, Accounting teams across the organization
• Monitoring implementation of agreed management action plans to address internal audit findings and provide regular status updates.   
• Performing risk assessment for Internal audit plan preparation purposes.
• Engaging in continuous knowledge development regarding new technologies and tools, applicable laws, regulations and best practices standards.
• Prepare reports and presentations - regularly prepare and generate reporting and presentations for portfolio reviews and ad hoc internal reviews
• Dashboard/ MI maintenance and management – wrangle and retrieve large data sets for consolidation, illuminating standard reporting metrics within custom dashboards to promote transparency across all key stakeholders
• Process development and approach – assist the Senior Manager to collaborate with other key stakeholders and develop standardized team processes to develop and define “how we work”
• Continuous improvement – help us look for opportunities to improve our process and transform our approach into a discipline

You should apply if you have:

• 5+ years proven work experience in internal or external auditing, enterprise risk management, or quality assurance functions, acting as a second control line.
• Relevant internal audit, IT/Data, or accounting certification is desired (CIA, CISA, AML-CFT, ACCA, CRMA).
• Experience in the EU/Global payments industry would be an advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (including modeling, advanced formulas, pivot tables, etc.)
• Hands-on proficiency in one or more of the following business intelligence, visualization, and advanced analytics tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Snowflake, or other similar systems.)
• Ability to work independently, rigorous, organized and disciplined
• Excellent communication and consultation skills, both written and verbal in English.
• Excels in team environment with the ability to collaborate and liaise with geographically distributed teams
• Self-starter with ‘can-do’ attitude, a service mindset, and proactive in responding to requests
• Professional, detail-oriented, and organized, with outstanding follow-up abilities
• Enthusiastic, with a strong desire to succeed 

About Convera

Convera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers – helping them capture more value with every transaction. Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers to educational institutions to financial institutions to law firms to NGOs. Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers, which makes Convera a