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Job Title: Financial Reporting Business Analyst - AVP
Division: DWS
Location: Manila

Overview:

DWS is one of the world's leading investment management organisations, offering individuals and institutions traditional and alternative investments across all major asset classes. It is undergoing a period of substantial and exciting change. DWS listed as a public company on the Frankfurt stock exchange in March 2018. DWS is now undertaking a significant transformation to implement state-of-the-art infrastructure aligned to the needs of an asset manager.

The CFO Division of DWS has presence in Frankfurt, London, New York and Asia and is responsible for ensuring the sound risk management and financial governance of DWS. The CFO Division comprises Risk, Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Integrated Reporting, Regional CFO teams, Tax, Capital & Liquidity Management, Finance Director teams for the Investment Platform, Coverage and Infrastructure functions and the COO team.

The COO team is responsible for the strategy and execution, governance, resource allocation, change management and control oversight for the CFO Division.

Key Responsibilities:

As part of the SAP 4 Hana adoption programme this role will focus on one or more functional areas that will typically impact across different country (releases) for this programme. Key components of the role will be:

• Defining business requirements for one or more functional area associated with the adoption of a new operating model aligned with the adoption of a new Ledger (SAP 4 Hana).
• Working with stakeholders and managing them through a structured process to understand their needs, analyse problems, and capture their requirements
• Partnering closely with IT colleagues on the delivery team to refine the requirement into specifications, creating user stories and design solutions that can be executed
• Providing input to the end users test approach, cutover and business readiness
• Facilitate communication across Technology, End Users and design lead in order to create consensus on scope, design decisions, and implementation decisions
• Helping in the creation of process flows and control documents
• Establishing relationship and working collaboratively across other DWS functions, e.g. Procurement, HR and IT as required to ensure requirements and design are aligned front to back with any dependencies clarified
  • Support the project manager as required with respect to status reporting inputs, issues / risks management and all other aspects of the project including planning and tracking of activities and dependencies

Skills & Qualifications:

• Relevant and demonstrable experience in designing and documenting requirements for transformation programmes in Finance – SAP S4 Hana preferred with experience in Group Reporting Module.
• Experience with business/data analysis within financial services showing strong analytical skills and clear problem solving capabilities
• Experience in designing business processes including the documentation of structured process maps and related documentation such as control definition
• Experience in multi-GAAP financial reporting
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with experience in explaining complex processes and issues clearly and concisely to Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
• Structured, organized, and results-oriented approach, demonstrating a high level of diligence and attention to detail
• Detailed knowledge of Accounting and other Finance processes
• Accounting qualification
• Knowledge of asset management industry preferred
• Amenable to hybrid work model and mid-shift schedule (2pm to 11pm)

DWS is an equal opportunity employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation or disability.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any concerns about the application process, please contact your recruiter.

We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.

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