Global Finance Manager - Data

Job Description

Primary Details Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Employee The OpportunityQBE Europe are looking to recruit a Senior Analyst, Global Financial Systems to join James Grafton’s team in Finance Data & Systems Team. The Senior Analyst, Global Financial Systems, will take a lead role in resolving any issues and changes that arise inQBE’s end-to-end financial data flow to ensure it meets the requirements of the finance teams. These teams are dependent on accurate and timely data on which to report QBE’s financial result to our internal stakeholders, our shareholders and to our variousregulators. The Senior Analyst, Global Financial Systems will understand the issues in the current estate, and partner with the various teams across IT, Finance and the wider business to lead testing and ensure changes to the existing architecture meet therequirements of finance consumers and issues are rectified. This role will be responsible for ensuring accounting rules, mapping, and designs within the Global FIAB Architecture adhere to global design principles. The role is part of the QBE’s Global FinanceSystems Support team which serves as the primary interface between IT and the Finance organisation, ensuring alignment between the Finance strategy and IT, and driving continuous operational improvement and efficiencies.Your new role

• Bring a technical understanding of the end-to-end financial data flow, deploying this knowledge to administer FAH accounting rules, resolve issues and drive efficiencies in the current architecture including, but not limited to, testing and sign off on regularMI data fixes.
• Business owner of Business Events and Extended Journals Functional Reconciliation Tool with oversight of monthly dropouts.
• Own and serve as guardian of the data flowing into finance, investigating differences and manage design and change of any integrations.
• Manage our relationships with the EO data teams to facilitate change and target design and architecture.
• Support the FAH Create Accounting business rules for Business Events (Accounting Specification) and assume responsibility for any Finance impacting regional to global mappings within ODS.
• Work directly with members of the Global Financial Systems team, Financial Systems & Data team, our third-party technology partners, and other members of the Finance, IT and Data teams to perform root cause analysis of data errors, contributing to designsolutions to resolve these errors and leading testing and delivery through to final deployment.
• Engage with our stakeholders to understand what Finance need from their data and how it can be delivered through correcting and enhancing our data architecture and systems logic.
• Represent the Global Financial Systems team in engaging with key programmes and projects looking to enhance the wider QBE estate by providing subject matter expertise in the design and delivery of these change initiatives.

About you

• Experience through multiple project lifecycles of the design and implementation of processes
• Experience of working in a customer/supplier relationship with the necessary service delivery mindset.
• Experience of working across multiple teams to negotiate the successful delivery of a goal
• Excellent understanding of database technology (Azure, MS SQL, Oracle), integration methods and coding (SQL).
• Experience of agile delivery approaches.
• Experience in the insurance sector.
• Data analysis, interrogation and compilation for high volume, complex data sets.
• Business architecture definition and review.
• Strong understanding of the Finance function, processes, technologies, and implementation leading practices
• Strong communication and influencing skills - The ability to simplify and articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audience.
• Negotiation skills – The ability to work with customers/suppliers to deliver work within the constraints of time/financial capacity/resource availability/etc.
• Ability to capture and communicate finance’s accounting and analysis requirements to non-finance specialist technology teams.
• Ability to manage multiple competing activities and prioritise effectively.
• Ability to quickly understand complex architecture and seek an understanding of key systems and their impact on finance.

Why QBE At My Best At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can changedepending on your life stage.That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA - because we know it’snot just what we do that matters, it’s how we do it that makes the difference. In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of todays workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want toattract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation. #LI-HybridSome of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include.Employer of the Year 2022Winner – Insurance InsiderBritish Claims Awards 2022 Winner - InsurTech AwardInsurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner - Claims Product Solution of the YearWorking Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 ResponseInsurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finan