Role Profile: Expense Analyst
Broad description
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is responsible for providing financial support to the Operations leaders on the financial health of the IBXs and overall region. FP&A is primarily
responsible for forecasting, budgeting, reporting, analysis and business partnering. The FP&A team aims to deliver high quality, relevant, timely and accurate financial and non-financial
information to enable key decision making and strategic direction.
***This role excludes responsibility of 1. Construction owned non-recurring Capex. 2. Sales Commission 3. Metered power billing 4. Revenue forecasting 5. Execution & Facilitation of Team
Building events
Main responsibilities and accountabilities of the role
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Business
Partnering
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Reporting
Creates operations financial reporting documents for Ops Site & Functional Leaders, uses key metrics and insightful variance analysis and commentary (i.e. monthly management deck,
quarterly regional performance reviews, quarterly forecast presentations, budget presentations, etc.) for the purposes of cost analysis
Provides process improvement recommendations
Tracks exact spend against budget by PO/Project (Capex & Opex) using mechanisms such as weekly tracker reviewing commitments​
Utilize a planning tool (system) Access to use PBCS tool is ideal
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Forecasting
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This role leads the P2P process. Working as the glue between Payables, IBX sites team, Suppliers and Purchasing
Creation of the Purchase Requests and is the Oracle super user supporting the IBX
Ensure compliance of Purchase Requests (5 W’s), all required contracts/legal approvals, accounting codes and competitive bids
Manages full cycle of contract administrations which includes liaising between legal & IBX teams
Shares insights with business leaders and Finance management as appropriate to improve business operations
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Collect, Consolidate and review of budget inputs and submit to Finance Partners
Provides analysis for quarterly and annual cost and budget forecasts
Highlights actual vs. target discrepancies and trends as appropriate
Provides analysis to compare trends and make sure submissions are within targets
Revise forecast with finance based on factors like actual trends