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  • Posted: Apr 15, 2021
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    Dentons is the world's largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral ...
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    Interim Gobal Finance Lead - Business Insight

    Key Deliverables

    Working with the Business Insight team and key stakeholders:

    • Delivery of early benefits, specifically FP&A and Indirect Tax Tools
    • Delivery of 3E reporting catalogue identified through the global design phase
    • Delivery of a user interface to navigate users to the required reports
    • Delivery of business insight based on analysis of data, identification of trends, anomalies
    • The provision of ad hoc support to decision makers facilitating Dentons to become a data driven organisation through having access to timely data that is both reliable and able to be interpreted by senior stakeholders

    Key Responsibilities

    • As the Global Lead – Business Insight you will manage the Business Insight Process Analyst and establish relationships with the regional subject matter experts and SI partners. This role will support Dentons through design and into implementation of early benefits.

    Other responsibilities as follows:

    • To ensure that the process for the extraction of data from underlying systems and the collation of that data into a global database is efficient, monitored and reconciled
    • To understand and work with the wider team to deliver an efficient end to end Business Insight solution, to include the management and control of data, consistent application of the access and security models, ensuring data consistency across all systems
    • To create, manage and deploy dashboards/reporting within the global Business Insight architecture, supporting global and regional team members as required, to include 3E and PowerBi reporting
    • To embrace ongoing change and improve both process and quality of deliverables, providing clear explanations and training as changes are rolled out
    • To work with the technical reporting team to ensure all data is reconciled as it is transformed and regions and global teams have complete transparency of the data back to source systems
    • To ensure all key stakeholders are fully aware of the resources available to them and fully trained in their use
    • To work with the data stewards and wider finance transformation data team to ensure that data clean up activity delivers business benefit to support better decision making
    • To create and manage such documentation and on-line tool support text as necessary
    • To proactively review and incorporate cross regional working data, partner credit data, key performance indicators and global measures into regular reporting and insight
    • To support the process for ongoing data management and governance and work within the guidelines
    • The post holder will also be responsible for identifying (scoping) and collecting (liaising with colleagues globally) regarding the data required to generate new metrics and the definition of those key metrics, working alongside the Global Finance Transformation data and reporting team

    Global Finance Transformation Design Authority engagement and Senior Leadership stakeholder management:

    • Work with the Finance Transformation Record to Report team on stakeholder management:
    • Represent important and challenging design decisions and supporting business rationale to enable design decisions to be made;
    • Support governance of the agreed design throughout the lifecycle of build and implementation;
    • Support engagement with Finance Transformation Regional Process Leads and SMEs in the organization to ensure that all requirements are being met.

    Support for risk and issue management:

    • Identify and analyse project risks and dependancies. Support the Finance Transformation – Work with Record to Report Team to resolve issues through engagement with the Business Design Authority.

    Support development of design and blueprint:

    •  Attendance and participation in Business Design /Blueprint workshops to ensure that the Target Operating Model is consistently represented
    • A broad, enterprise-wide view of Dentons and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance

    About You

    • Business international level of English – both written and oral.
    • Demonstrable and progressive experience in the areas of data manipulation and analytics,
    • A fastidiousness for accurate, reconciled analysis with the personality to not rest until imbalances are found
    • Experience of influencing and engaging stakeholders, including building and managing relationships within a diverse global firm.
    • Ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting demands.
    • Strong intellectual rigor and commercial awareness.
    • Strategically focused, results driven and superior analytical skills, with the ability to translate analysis into recommendations.
    • The individual will need to combine good technical skills with accuracy and the ability to cope under pressure, given the demands of the work involved and business requirements.
    • Problem solving skills, supported by high quality data analysis are critical for this role, along with strong communication skills.
    • Solutions orientated with the ability to address problems by gathering relevant information and formulating alternatives
    • Structured, collaborative, accurate and with a drive to perfection

    Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:

    • Extensive experience planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives within global organisations
    • Provide leadership and direction through the life of Transformation Programs
    • Data analysis, creating and modeling business data using a variety of tools and techniques, to meet the needs of stakeholders;

    Data warehousing concepts

    • Able to communicate insight derived in relevant business language to enable informed decision making:
    • Working with enterprise wide databases, observing global access and security protocols and assisting in the effective management of global master data
    • Analysing and interpreting market data for an organisation, quickly establishing key metrics/measures to support the Business Development department
    • Strong communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations;

    Strong situational analysis and ability to articulate the true requirements;

    • Must be a team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
    • Be able to identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and "truths" and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others;
    • Business development/client data analyst, within a team on international projects;
    • Creator of both functional and non-functional documentation, including requirements traceability matrices.

    You will possess:

    • The ability to act as a liaison conveying information in suitably accurate models between the Business and their counterparts within Information Technology. The scope of this information includes business requirements, data constraints, business rules, models of strategy and motivation, processes, accountabilities, and many other business and IT operational needs;
    • The ability to recognise structural issues within organizations, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies. Those issues may exist in role alignment, process gaps and overlaps, and business capability maturity gaps;
    • The ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges;
    • The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to Dentons and to high-priority business issues;
    • The ability to visualize and create high-level models (rigorous information-rich diagrams) that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture;
    • Possess a broad, enterprise-wide view of organizations and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
    • SSRS reporting and administering Reporting Services

    Essential Qualifications / Experience

    • Considerable experience of working on international projects,
    • Experienced in creating both functional and non-functional documentation, including requirements traceability matrices
    • Data Analytics tools, Microsoft tools expertise, to include Office, in particular Excel, and PowerBi.
    • MS Azure SQL; Visual Studio
    • Experience of working with Thomson Reuters 3E, Data Insights and PowerBi
    • SSRS reporting and administration of Reporting Services
    • Applications from current residents in the following cities, will be considered:

    London or Warsaw

    Disclaimer: Please ensure when applying for this role that you are legally eligible to work/live in your preferred location. Visa sponsorship or relocation costs will not be provided

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Dentons on apply.workable.com to apply

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