Sr Business Analyst - Finance Transformation; Hybrid

Overview

Job Classification:
Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you'"ll unlock a motivating and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions!

Are you energized by an opportunity to work in a new, transformative and tech forward environment? Do you have a strong affinity and curiosity for financial systems and implementing process efficiencies? As part of Financial Management (FM) Transformation, the Financial Close team is seeking an action-oriented problem solver with an entrepreneurial and tech-forward mindset to join our team as a Senior Business Analyst.

Our vision for FM Transformation, which is aligned to Prudential's vision and strategy, is to power exceptional business, customer, and employee outcomes through efficient, high-integrity and timely financial reporting and analysis that enable rapid and intelligent decision making.

We will achieve our vision by creating:

• A simplified, modular, and integrated process and technology architecture,
• World-class business intelligence and decision analytics, fueled by accurate, readily available data,
• End-to-end process automation,
• A culture that embraces transformational innovation, organizational agility, and continuous improvement, and
• Superior employee experience.

The successful candidate will help drive the FM Transformation vision and be part of a cross functional team that partners with subject matter experts to ideate, design, develop, roll-out, and measure success of key priorities. The candidate will support the team's Product Owner (PO) by acting as a voice of stakeholders, including (but not limited to) collecting, interpreting and documenting business requirements.

This role will encompass driving delivery efforts across finance, technology, data science, project management, and people management. This role is not about knowing the answers, but finding them.

The current EWA for this position is Hybrid and requires your on-site presence on a reoccurring basis as determined by your business. Your manager will provide additional details on the specific number of days you are expected to be on-site.

• Work on a small team (7-10 individuals) to help identify solutions that modernize the accounting close process for finance stakeholders
• Tackle problems creatively, while being curious to comprehensively evaluate, propose and implement new solutions
• Utilize flexible collaboration styles to build a cohesive team and maintain progress. Build partnerships with associates across finance, data science, technology, and the business
• Help build consensus and influence key priorities that contribute to the larger vision and strategy
• Demonstrate capacity to communicate complex and technical solutions to non-technical audiences
• Evaluate demanding situations, understand the challenges, and take the necessary risks to meet key milestones including making project-level decisions that will be instrumental in keeping pace and setting the stage for future actions and taking responsibility for projects as if they were their own business

• 4-6 years of diversified experience in corporate finance (particularly an understanding of an accounting close), with a focus on transforming processes
• Ability to 'connect the dots' between the core concepts of corporate finance, data, and tech forward tools
• Problem solving skills including the ability to identify solutions and alternatives for high priority challenges
• Ability to drive progress and navigate with tenacity
• Excellent execution and business partnering skills, along with strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated success working on a cross-functional team that achieved long-term goals while managing short-term challenges
• Willingness to learn innovative technologies and process re-engineering

• MBA, CPA, or CFA
• Experience with data querying, reporting, and BI tools (e.g., Power BI)

Prudential welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.

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