Business Analyst

The candidate currently works as a 2nd level business support in banking. He is tasked with improving systems, making suggestions for improvement, testing features, communicating incidents with developers or creating business analysis. He has also worked as a programmer or project manager in the past, so he would love to combine the IT sector with business. They are using an agile environment on the project. His English is at a very good level and he also has a passive knowledge of German. He has also worked as a junior teamleader, in charge of a team and also training new colleagues. He prefers rather long term projects from an international environment in finance but is happy to look at any offers.

2 months notice

1.6.2019 - Present: Business Support Responsible for supporting business operations for accounting systems Ledger and Mambu. Handle incidents and service requests, analyze and correct accounting entries, collect requirements and new functionalities from business, communicate with developers, and test before user acceptance testing. Participate in grooming and planning meetings, and propose system improvements. Provide training on accounting systems.

1.3.2018 - 31.5.2019: Application Support Support business in questions related to internal accounting system Ledger. Handle incidents and service requests, support developers with business requirements and improvements, analyze and correct accounting entries, and provide training on accounting systems.

1.10.2016 - 31.10.2017: Continuous Monitoring Develop, maintain, and implement automated ACL analytics. Maintain and handle incidents for continuous monitoring platform. Communicate with users and analytics owners. Manage production and QA servers. Implement new tools and platform upgrades. Communicate with ACL provider. Retrieve data from GATES system and Postgresql using SQL queries. Manage projects and implement SSO between Adient and ACL Network.

1.10.2015 - 30.9.2016: FX (Foreign Exchange) Management - Senior Finance Analyst Cooperate with treasury to protect foreign currencies exposure risk. Prepare reports for monthly balance sheet hedges and analyze monthly FX results. Report FX exposure to treasury and business controllers. Check FX bookings and P&L impact. Automate manual reports using VBA.

1.12.2014 - 30.9.2015: Daimler Central Business Unit - Jr. Program Controller Manage four projects, including P&L responsibility, price checking, retro-billing approvals, accruals booking, and documentation. Prepare Daimler presentation and aging analyses. Prepare profit plan and perform HFM retrieves. Handle month-end close activities, profit planning, and monthly reconciliation.

1.4.2014 - 30.11.2014: Continuous Improvement (CI) - Finance Analyst Analyze processes to find roadblocks and waste. Implement and maintain Excel macros. Run CI projects for soft and hard savings. Maintain SharePoint and create basic workflows. Investigate alternatives for existing IT solutions.

1.09.2011 - 31.3.2014: Accounts Payable Reporting - Finance Analyst Handle AP financial results, calculate and report key performance indicators. Prepare reports for on-hold invoices, ad hoc reports, prepayment reports, aging reports, and OPS package presentations. Upload and present KPI tools. Automate standard reports using VBA and create automated tools for calculating KPIs and sending notifications about open AP invoices.

1.10.2009 - 31.08.2011: Travel and Expenses Junior Supervisor Control accounting clerks for travel and expenses. Perform SOX controls and follow up on business policies. Solve issues, create working instructions, and maintain and update T&E for.