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What's the role?
At Bloomberg Finance we are committed to providing world-class support to our business partners by providing insight on business performance, financial oversight and thought leadership. We are looking for a finance analyst to join our larger finance team supporting the Legal, Compliance, & Risk organization. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to deliver a blend of financial and operational analysis, process documentation and improvements, financial modeling, reporting and senior management support to drive the strategic direction of Bloomberg's Legal, Compliance, and Risk Functions.
Legal performs all legal interpretation and drafting, including advising on client, vendor, and employee-related legal matters (such as client and supplier/vendor agreements), litigations and investigations, employment matters, antitrust matters, merger and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, data privacy legal, intellectual property, regulatory matters, corporate governance, media and newsroom legal issues.
The Compliance team works across businesses and functions to identify, evaluate and adhere to regulations globally, including obligations associated with the Company's licenses or license exemptions, financial crimes compliance, employee compliance, data privacy compliance, and sets compliance practice standards across the Firm.
The Risk team provides guidance to employees across Bloomberg in the form of policies, trainings, tools and standards to meet firm and regulatory expectations. The Risk team supports businesses in identification, cross-firm reporting, and remediation (or acceptance) of risks. The Risk team also serves as subject matter experts in specific areas of risk overseeing the related processes to manage or mitigate risks.
You will be expected to provide business managers and executives with timely, accurate, and transparent reporting of relevant metrics and financial information to drive efficient operations and accountability to business outcomes. You will be responsible for using extensive data sources to provide solutions to urgent business questions, financial / operational insight, and reporting.
You will also be responsible for evaluating risks and improving business processes and for building tools that serve longer term needs. Your ability to develop relationships with stakeholders across the organization and strong analytical and communication skills will help you be successful in this role.
We'll trust you to:
• Build relationships with key business contacts, working closely with stakeholders to inform business strategy, define strategic priorities and measure success;
• Identify and evaluate risks, improve business processes and controls and for building tools that serve longer term needs
• Conduct benchmarking analysis to identify leading practices and advise management on the appropriate and efficient use of resources to minimize legal and regulatory risk;
• Develop and maintenance of KPIs and business metrics;
• Draft quarterly financial updates, annual operating plans and other business planning presentations;
• Manage FP&A requirements in adherence to corporate requirements and processes;
• Oversee resource management, resource allocations, and resource related reporting and analysis;
• Participate in the development of presentations for Senior Management, both on a regularly scheduled and ad hoc basis;
You'll need to have:
• 4+ years of experience in financial analysis
• A BA/BS in Finance, Accounting or related field
• Experience in understanding and documenting end-to-end processes, identifying risks and internal controls; this would include ability to Flowchart processes using tools such as Microsoft Visio
• Ability to identify problems, understand the root cause, make recommendations and drive to a solution
• High curiosity level and desire to learn
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence outcomes of issues and projects
• Experience carrying out complex work with autonomy and make decisions within scope of responsibilities
• Team player who can work across multiple departments and levels within the company
• Ability to voice opinions or concerns to senior management
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks
• Exceptional written, interpersonal and communication skills
We'd love to see:
• Flexibility to work in an entrepreneurial and fast-moving environment
• Familiarity with the Bloomberg terminal is useful, but not required.
• Experience with Enterprise software applications e.g. SAP
• Experience with data visualization applications e.g. Tableau or Qlik
Does this sound like you?
Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know that the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/
