Senior Financial Analyst
Aegon is an international financial service holding company headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. Our ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Our purpose is to help people live their best lives, which goal runs through all of our activities. The company has multiple locations across the globe, with core markets in the UK and the US, partnerships in Spain & Portugal, Brazil, and China and an Asset Management organization with locations in UK, US, NL and Hungary. In the Netherlands, Aegon generates value via a strategic shareholding in a market-leading insurance and pensions company.
Aegon Global Business Solutions Center is supporting these businesses with IT, Finance, Risk, Model Validation, Actuarial, Audit and Asset management services with a growing team of approx. 300 people, based in Budapest, Hungary.
Global Technology Services (GTS) is Aegon's global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security, and global/corporate application support for Aegon's businesses around the world.
From 6 locations in the US, the Netherlands, the UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units and 24,000+ employees in the world. Our support consists of a wide range of centralized global IT services such as programming, database management, project management, agile/dev/ops, and more.
Job Purpose
The GTS Financial Planning and Analysis team is responsible for providing insightful management reporting to enable GTS managers and leaders to successfully deliver on performance, strategy, and financial plans. This includes ownership of appropriate monthly/ quarterly financial reporting, the annual budget process, regular forecasting, and business partnering.
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be responsible for applying financial analysis, knowledge and judgment to activities that are diverse. These activities include analysis for actual, budget and forecasting requirements to functions of the GTS organisation. Key support will also be required to help the Aegon business unit’s stakeholder management, aiding the business units in their understanding of their GTS service consumption compared to budget and alignment with their strategic roadmaps.
What You Will Do
Extracts financial data from various accounting and information systems to perform appropriate analyses.
- Analyzes financial data and defines relevant information; interprets data for the purpose of determining
past financial performance and/or to project a financial result.
- Exhibits a thorough understanding of business and analysis concepts.
- Participate in monthly accounting processes to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial records
- Involved in the analysis and reporting of budgeting and midterm planning for a key GTS function.
- Recommends changes to processes to improve and achieve greater efficiencies.
- Financial analysis and reporting for business units within Aegon that receive IT services from GTS. Aiding the units in understanding their IT service consumption and the changes compared to the budget
- Works effectively with other GTS organizational functions to ensure business issues are resolved for the success of the company.
Qualifications
- Degree educated in a financial discipline
- A recently qualified professional accountancy qualification (CA, ACCA, CIMA) and evidence of continuous professional development.
- Basic knowledge of IT, with a specific focus on IT infrastructure and Information Security.
Behavioural & Leadership Competencies
- Commitment
- Communication Skills
- Learning Attitude
- Problem-Solving Ability
- Resourcefulness
- Tolerance of Ambiguity
- Ability to give and receive feedback as part of the financial analysis and planning team
- Flexibility and adaptability to change, and a continuous learning mindset
- Decision making and problem-solving skills
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive health package
- Brand new office at an excellent location
- Hybrid working
- Opportunities for growth and advancement
- A highly people centric, positive and supportive work environment
AGT Hungary IT Services LLC (HUN entity)