Product Controller - Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Product control.You have found the right team.

As a Product control Professionalin ourFinanceteam you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.

Job Responsibilities

As Global Research Product Controller, you will be:

• Responsible for the accuracy and integrity of Line of Business (LOB) books and records
• Having the opportunity to work with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, across hierarchies, such as sales , contract capture team, billing operations, business managers, product owners, financial control, legal entity control along with teams that cover planning and analysis, external/regulatory reporting, strategic projects and technology
• Running P&L reporting that covers contracting activity and associated economic events for in-scope Research products
• Calculation of fixed and variable fees for the purpose of estimates and actuals reporting
• Month-end close processes, providing detailed analysis and reporting on financials
• Working with Sales to arrive at forecast numbers for current/future years as well as on a monthly basis
• Working with business stakeholders to drive forth and implement robust controls, new business initiatives and enhancements to MIS reporting
• Driving co-ordination across various front and back-office support functions to ensure resolution of control and reporting issues in an accurate and timely manner
• Handling various ad-hoc requests. Reconciliation across key business outputs

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• CA, MBA or a bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related business field, with 3+ years of finance/accounting and related experience
• Strong accounting and analytical skills, with an ability to understand and explain variances across time-periods in context of economic events that occur during the lifecycle of a fee contract
• Attention to detail along with the ability to question status quo and identify process efficiencies
• Able to and connect upstream and downstream processes with product controller processes to understand their impact
• Strong MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Keenness to learn and apply automation, data visualization and story-telling techniques based on data and facts is a must. Prior knowledge of applications such as Tableau, Alteryx, UI Path and/or macros and other forms of process automation will be an added advantage
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to summarize for executive level presentations as well as expand/elaborate for detailed commentary where required. Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure

Skills: Accounting, Ui Path, Data Visualization, Analytical Skills, Tableau, Alteryx, Ms Excel, Automation, Powerpoint, Macros, Communication Skills, Process Automation

Experience: 3.00-5.00 Years