Apply for Vacancy for Manager at The Global Fund in Switzerland. The deadline for this job is 31st August 2021.

Description:

Manager, Secretariat Financial Process Optimization – GL E – 5 years defined duration Under the sponsorship of Chief Financial Officer and reporting to the Coordinator (Financial Insights & Analytics), the Manager (Secretariat Financial Process Optimization) supports F&A’s ambitious journey to become a trusted strategic partner by driving and leading cross-functional collaboration to optimize financial processes and analytical capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure effective identification of financial business process improvements in collaboration with business/process owners and other relevant stakeholders.
• Also, drive and facilitate cross-functional collaboration to create alignment around optimization and automation priorities.
• Moreover, manage, execute and advance the finance transformation by introducing accelerated process optimization (simplification and automation) by leveraging tools such as robotics process automation.
• Likewise, design, development, testing and implementation of process automation that will interact with different applications.
• Develop and implement data models and databases to support visualization and analytical solutions and identify data requirements and design data models and databases to meet the requirements.
• Integrate data models and databases with BI tools such as Power BI, QlikView or Tableau to design management reports.
• Maximize the efficiency and automation of data gathering, validation and publishing processes (or ETL steps where relevant).
• Additionally, develop and implement analytics solutions to use advanced analytical models or tools to meet business requirements.
• Design advanced analytical models to generate insights, predictions or model scenarios to provide visibility on fund performance and investment decision-making aspects and utilize relevant languages and techniques to implement, test and refine advanced analytical models.
• Also, advise senior management and governance bodies on strategic and operational trends by leveraging financial information and related programmatic data on the effectiveness of the Organization.
• Furthermore, ensure relevant data is being measured and support continued improvement of data quality and measurement effectiveness.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Advanced degree in fields related to information system management, computer science, data science, or other advanced degree with professional experience directly related to implementation of financial process optimization (incl. business process improvement, system enhancement and financial analytics).

Desirable:

• Professional certification in data science, data analytics, digital transformation or related fields

Experience

Essential:

• Process optimization & automation
  • Experience in the design and implementation of RPA software or similar rule-based automation technology
  • Also, experience in the design and implementation of intelligent automation technology
• Likewise, data modelling, analytics and integration experience
• Additionally, demonstrated experience of leading a diverse and high performing technical team to deliver tangible products outside one’s area of expertise

Desirable:

• Minimum 12 years of demonstrated professional experience supporting financial transformations from a business perspective.
• Also, at least 6 years of experience in leading a team of professional technical experts coming from a diverse background
• Data analytics experience with different tools and methods
• Likewise, track record of delivering change and knowledge management strategies with a complex operating environment with capability gaps.
• Experience with reputed professional accountancy firms or consulting firms
• Furthermore, experience of working within an international or regional sphere of activity

Competencies

Languages:

An excellent knowledge of English and preferably a good working knowledge of French. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.

Organizational Competencies:

• Global Fund awareness and mindset
• Similarly, service orientation
• Drive for results
• Also, collaboration
• Interaction
• Additionally, Adaptability