Junior Financial Analyst

Allianz Services is proud to serve and be part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers. Our strong global footprint, with around 6000 employees located across eight countries and four continents, enables us to unlock the full potential towards driving a superior client experience within Allianz Group.

Requirements
University degree business administrations or comparable
Fluency in English, both written and spoken
Interested in IT-Tools and systems
Additional language as German, Spanish, Italian or French is an advantage
Knowledge of MS-Office (esp. Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
SAP knowledge (ideally CAP, BAP)
Min.2 years previous experience in Finance or Business Administration
Previous experience in a corporate environment would be a plus

Skills
Customer focused attitude with strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Accurate and reliable way of working
Quick perception
Good communication skills

Primary
Budget tracking and monthly project reporting:
-Fulfilling reporting needs of different stakeholders
-Providing cost center reports and project reports (PSP)
-Generation of status updates in PPT
-Providing budget reports on a monthly basis (Actuals versus Plan) for the management, including comments and analysis
-Providing standardized project reporting focused on business case figures, milestones, deliverables and content of all projects within AMOS
-Providing analysis of costs versus revenues booked on a project, whenever requested

Cost Center controlling:
-Assigning correctly the costs to internal cost centers
-Develop cost centers, cost categories and product cost accounting and allocate intercompany services
-Prepare cost center reporting for various functional groups
-Analysis of cost elements on cost centers (deviations between previous period/current period/budget)
-Tracking of all cost center expenses
-Support functional reporting requirements and drive improvements in automating reporting and analysis
-Support monthly reviews by preparing presentations and ad-hoc analysis
-Analysis of accounting bookings and identification of actual budget consumption, including commenting on the respective deviations and results

Project approval workflow (SharePoint) & Business Partner Support:
-Quality control of figures, deliverables, official rates used for labor efforts, pricing
-Comparison of planning resources, budget and project duration, according to Finance checklist
-Verification of types of costs, charging method and financial KPIs (breakeven point, capitalization rate, NPV)
-Approval or rejection of project Business Case by providing feedback to project managers with required adjustments for a proper Business Case / Project Charter or PlanView input
-Offering support to business partners regarding controlling topics

Secondary
PlanView process:
-Entering of Efforts in PlanView
-Administration of projects in PlanView (e.g sponsorship form, debtors, project lifecycle)
-Creation of projects
-Providing the monthly project status report
-Entering/Updating the financial plan

Other responsibilities:
-Attends to company’s management reporting
-The employee is responsible for all deficiencies resulting from their activities based on their own decisions
-Follows all circulars, methodology rules, work procedures, internal regulation, compliance and anti-fraud policy of the company

Quality management responsibilities:
-Elaborates quality management process documentation (SOPs, guidelines) and performs all registrations required in order to meet all business activities
-Fulfills all business requirements or quality management related tasks requested by line manager or by superior of department