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
• 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 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