Senior Business Analyst

gategroup  Belgrade, Serbia (Hybrid)

We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Business Analyst for our Shared Service Centre. This position will be based in our beautiful offices in New Belgrade.

Job Summary:

The focus of this role is to provide strong commercial financial support to the allocated account. You will be the financial support for your account and will keep track of profitability, cost drivers, revenue development and assortment performance. While supporting the Business controller and counterpart in the airline you will seek to add value through analysis of the entire P&L. You will work closely with the account director on seeking improvements of profitability to the business, forecasting, and the financial analysis. This is not a typical finance role. We are looking for someone who is highly pro-active and who wants to team up with the rest of colleagues (finance and non-finance) to make things happen!

Personal Qualities:

• Enjoys working collaboratively with people. Performing well in this role will only come through considerable engagement with the rest of the business
• Driven character / self-motivated with a team spirit. You will be part of a Business Controlling team in Belgrade
• You enjoy analysis and problem-solving
• Being a creative, with a flexible mind-set is highly valued
• You have a genuine curiosity for business and people and you possess the ability to gather and interpret a large quantity of information and to present it in a comprehensible way

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as Finance support for the account. Help the business controller and account director deliver against set targets. Identify and analyze root cause of variances. Be a valuable asset in the financial decision making process, and support recommendations to the account director and gateretail (GR) account team on best route of action to manage any risks and explore areas of opportunity.
• Provide insights and analysis to support Business controller and account director with driving profitability of the Account
• Providing Account Director and Business controller with clear updates on performance vs plan. Setting out clear actions to bridge any gaps.
• Participate in making sure targets are met when launching New Product Ranges. Working closely with category managers. Providing insight and strengthening decision making throughout the entire process
• Develop budget models and forecasts in conjunction with the operating units as required. Track actual performance against them
• Month end responsibilities: support the business controller in producing full P&L. Demonstrating key drivers of performance. Assist in the invoicing and cost control process
• Ad-hoc tasks/projects as assigned by account team or Head of area

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required; Business, Economics, Math or Engineering majors required.

Work Experience:

• 2 to 4 years financial experience
• Systems experience (eg SAP, BI systems)
• Advanced user of Excel
• Basic understanding of accounting principles is a must

Language / Communication Skills:

• Excellent command of both written and spoken English
• Must be able to effectively and professionally communicate