Job Title: Accounting Close - Cost Close, Senior Analyst

Location: Manila

Corporate Title: Senior Analyst

Team Overview

Cost Validation and Reporting team is responsible for the overall reasonableness and completeness of business's costs which involves day to day discussions with internal stakeholders regarding any cost related item as well as timely review of MECC (MECC or Month End Cost Close means the procedures that are performed at the end of a month to close cost related books and records in the relevant system) actual balances vis a vis business expectations.

Act as a bridge between various finance partners to provide direction and advisory on various cost projects, perform consultations and manage inquiries.

Act as business point of contact and facilitate communication between relevant stakeholders on any issues affecting the costs.

What we'll offer you

• Competitive Salary
• Attractive Retirement Benefit
• Medical and Life Insurance upon employment
• 20 days Annual Vacation Leaves

Your key responsibilities

• Perform and review finance and accounting process but not limited to cost calculations, cost bookings, analytical review, reconciliation, BSS substantiation, financial commentary and reporting process in adherence to Global Accounting Framework
• Perform review of month end functions such as review of late adjustment entries with proper root cause analysis performed on operational issues
• Handle direct cost related queries and recommend resolution of issues
• Performs sense checks/ self review of process outputs to detect irregularities, error or variances.
• Ensure quality of output are:
  • in compliance with predefined processes and service level agreements/ KPIs
  • in compliance with policies, legal and statutory requirements
  • accurate and complete
• Collaborate with stakeholders and other teams for efficient execution of end-to-end operations through engagement calls
• Engage in change initiatives that may include but are not limited to brainstorming exercises, process improvement discussions, user acceptability testing and post deployment reviews

• Provides guidance to the Team by coordinating activities, answering questions and providing support, tracking progress, ensuring feedback and addressing performance problems/issues promptly

Your skills and experience

• Collaboration and Teamwork - You should effectively work with others towards a common goal and objective, as well as, build and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.

• Client Relationship Focus -You should build and maintain effective relationships with both internal and external clients to articulate and translate relationship needs/ requirements into actionable tasks and outputs.

• Professionalism & Integrity- You should be able to demonstrate a courteous, conscientious and generally business-like manner in the workplace including adherence to a code (i.e. of ethics or set of values).

• Flexibility, Adaptability & Innovation - You must seek and find new ways to enhance the contribution to the business; including driving for new or alternative solutions to resolve old and current problems.

• Driving & Delivering Results - You must demonstrate personal commitment to high levels of achievement; set high standards and stretch objectives. Also, you must measure progress and drive self and the team to exceed expectations, gets things done and delivering the end result.

• Business Knowledge & Technical Skills - You must develop own understanding and operational knowledge of the products and services of the Bank within own role, team or function as required to effectively perform role and support the client; Build the technical skills and knowledge of others; ensure retention (and update) of key operational knowledge within own team, product, or function that is necessary for the effective delivery of expected products or services.

• Commercial and Business Acumen - You must gather information from diverse sources to make informed business decisions. You should ensure that actions, processes and results comply with relevant legal, ethical and regulatory requirements and focus on maintaining cost discipline and mindful of enhancing shareholder value.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

About us and our teams

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Our values define the working environment we strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer. We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

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We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.