Interim Global Finance Lead - FP A Tagetik
Dentons Global, South Africa
Job Description
To support the embedding of a significant transformation for Global Finance division, Dentons is currently recruiting a Global Lead for Financial Planning and Analysis. This position will report to Global Finance Process Lead-Record to Report to deliver transformed Dentons global finance processes
The Global Lead will be responsible for providing support in relation to the analysis and manipulation of financial data and the deployment of reporting tools to support global financial reporting, client reporting and other data-related initiatives. The right candidate will be expected to work closely with the Finance Transformation Record to Report team to assist in the data collection and reconciliation of calculations.
Why Dentons is different
The legal profession is changing rapidly and Dentons is leading the way in advancing change for the benefit of our clients. We are driven to challenge the status quo, delivering consistent and uncompromising quality and value to our clients in new and innovative ways. Dentons continues to receive multiple external awards and recognition, including for our continued international expansion over the last 12 months; for ground-breaking innovation through the development of Nextlaw Labs and Nextlaw Global Referral Network; and for success in advising clients across multiple regions. This role will support our communications activities across the Firm, with over 10,000+ lawyers and 18,000+ total people in our offices around the world; Dentons has offices in 181 locations in 73 countries.
Against such rapid growth and change, this role offers the successful individual the chance to play a significant role and make their mark in driving the successful implementation of a transformative Business Intelligence capability within Dentons.
Key Deliverables
Working with the Business Insight team and key stakeholders:
- Delivery of early benefits, specifically FPamp;A Tagetik
- Delivery of 3E reporting catalogue identified through the global design phase
- Delivery of a user interface to navigate users to the required reports
- Delivery of business insight based on analysis of data, identification of trends, anomalies
- The provision of ad hoc support to decision makers facilitating Dentons to become a data driven organisation through having access to timely data that is both reliable and able to be interpreted by senior stakeholders
Key Responsibilities
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As the Global Finance Transformation Lead for FPamp;A you will manage Reporting and Data Analysts and establish relationships with the regional subject matter experts and SI partners. This role will support Dentons through design and into implementation of the Tagetik FPamp;A tool.
Other responsibilities as follows:
- To ensure that the process for the extraction of data from underlying systems and the collation of that data into a global database is efficient, monitored and reconciled
- To understand and work with the wider team to deliver an efficient end to end Business Insight solution, to include the management and control of data, consistent application of the access and security models, ensuring data consistency across all systems
- To create, manage and deploy dashboards/reporting within the global Business Insight architecture, supporting global and regional team members as required, to include 3E and PowerBi reporting
- To embrace ongoing change and improve both process and quality of deliverables, providing clear explanations and training as changes are rolled out
- To work with the technical reporting team to ensure all data is reconciled as it is transformed and regions and global teams have complete transparency of the data back to source systems
- To ensure all key stakeholders are fully aware of the resources available to them and fully trained in their use
- To work with the data stewards and wider finance transformation data team to ensure that data clean up activity delivers business benefit to support better decision making
- To create and manage such documentation and on-line tool support text as necessary
- To proactively review and incorporate cross regional working data, partner credit data, key performance indicators and global measures into regular reporting and insight
- To support the process for ongoing data management and governance and work within the guidelines
- The post holder will also be responsible for identifying (scoping) and collecting (liaising with colleagues globally) regarding the data required to generate new metrics and the definition of those key metrics, working alongside the Global Finance Transformation data and reporting team
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