Senior Analyst - Spend Analytics - Consulting Firm

Senior Analyst - Spend Analytics

Roles and responsibilities :

- Being a part of the team working on various spend analysis projects aiding strategic decision making for Fortune 500 / FTSE 100 companies, Blue Chip Consulting Firms, and Global Financial Services companies

- Understanding client objectives, and working with the PL to understand, and/or aid the designing of analytical solutions

- Collecting/Organizing/Preparing/Managing data for analysis, and conducting quality checks.

- Being able to use tools such as VBA/Python/R/Excel to aid machine learning and increase automation, in order to support various steps involved in delivering a robust spend analysis solution.

- Conduct sanity and logical checks on data and understanding business models of various public, private and not-for-profit companies, by conducting exhaustive research on company websites and other sources of company-specific information.

- Providing recommendations to clients via right category sourcing strategies, in order to achieve spend savings.

- Making straightforward decisions basis pre-defined options using clear criteria/procedures.

- Developing complete sections of final client reports in PowerPoint; identifying trends and evaluating insights in terms of logic and reasoning, and succinctly present them in terms of an executive summary/taglines.

- Discussing queries/certain sections of deliverable reports over client calls or video conferences.

Ideal Candidate :

- Superior problem-solving abilities and strong analytical thinking and aptitude for data collection.

- A desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment where you need to push yourself all the time.

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to drive effective conversations with internal and external stakeholder.

- Good interpersonal skills and ability to effectively work in teams.

- A positive individual with an urge to learn new tools and techniques.

- Mature individual with a professional work ethic, and a high degree of ownership and accountability.

- Ability to multi-task and be effective in solving problems to pace up with the nature of the project.