Savings Analyst

Job description / Role

As a savings analyst your focus will be providing professional & personal service, your remit will be to provide support to all activities of the Operations team where you will cover business change, reporting and data, 1st line assurance, operational risk and control

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver projects to agreed timescales and budget expectations, where required
- Working alongside internal stakeholders, identify the data required to fulfil our savings process requirements
- Manage established savings methodologies within the Procurement, Commercial and Customer Engagement area.
- Provide support in identifying and validating savings provided, by reconciling against agreed methodologies and process
- Assist in the presentation of regular savings communications into Customers including Procurement, Commercial and Customer Engagement teams.
- Ability to effectively manage competing deadlines for projects in a high-pressure work environment, with varying degrees of supervision
- Strong attention to detail and ability to notice discrepancies in data
- Impeccable understanding of financial statements, ratios, and concepts
- Proficiency in statistical packages and financial software
- Ensure continuity of service in the savings team where necessary.
- Cover other aspects of the team as required

Requirements

Knowledge, skills and experience

- Bachelor’s Degree Required
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and MS Access
- Ability to effectively manage competing deadlines for projects in a high-pressure work environment, with varying degrees of supervision
- Strong attention to detail and ability to notice discrepancies in data
- Impeccable understanding of financial statements, ratios, and concepts
- Proficiency in statistical packages and financial software

Key Competencies

- Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills; strong coordination and planning skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, computer, and organizational skills.
- Must be technologically savvy in order to navigate and organize electronic invoices.
- Ability to work independently, as well as within a team; prioritize workload, and meet deadlines.
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment with proven ability to prioritize and multi-task.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

About the Company

At Candidate we pride ourselves in not only being a team of recruiters but possessing extensive industry experience across our key verticals, which allows us to search and select the right calibre of resource for our clients. With our offices in the UK and Dubai, UAE we have the exposure to the right network which helps us focus on building a portfolio of clients and candidates across our key sectors:

Financial Services FinTech Legal Cyber Healthcare Digital

We like to see ourselves as more than a typical recruitment consultancy. For instance we offer the core services of placing the right candidate for our clients and retained recruitment, in addition to consultancy to advise and build out a client’s needs. Supplying contract resource is an area we are building out to provide further options to our client base. Lastly training is a key focus, as a result of our partnership with Forte Markets we have access to a depth of content and expertise, across our key verticals, rarely seen with a recruiter.