Job Title:   Corporate - Spend Analyst
Contract Length: 6 Months
Location: Aberdeen
Description:  
The Spend Analyst is responsible for providing key management information (MI) and spend support (including forecasting, VOWD, commitments and accruals) to the Performance Manager, ensuring robust control of business services spend.
The role helps deliver a consistent and standardised approach utilising IS frameworks and processes.
Critical Responsibilities:
Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation, and HSEQ procedures.             
Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:       
Supports the Information Systems Performance Manager in providing quality management information data or reports for the Leadership team.
Highlights reporting data issues, identifies, and designs action orientated solutions for the teams to resolve.
The ongoing production of daily, weekly, periodic, and annual spend analysis is required including, but not limited to:
Quarterly Performance Review Reporting.
Spend reporting - Monthly Value of Work Done (VOWD) Reporting, Monthly Forecast v Budget & Commitment v Forecast KPI Monthly Reporting Operational status reporting.
Consolidated business services reporting.
Understands the tools and procedures in place and ensures all spend tracking adheres to agreed governance processes.
Ensures KPI reports are designed and delivered to meet the reporting requirements for stakeholder including EVP Business Services IS SVP and functional senior managers.
Actively participates in the ongoing improvement and implementation of performance processes, standards and templates.
Understands the principles of reporting between corporate and business unit.
Understands cost code structure and ensure adherence to the approved WBS structures.
Facilitates the Business Services annual budget process.
Provides month end accruals data to Finance based on actuals vs VOWD.
Works with minimal supervision, using clearly defined processes and procedures.Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:
Proven experience of spend activities, ideally in a Business Services environment.
Understanding of cost management including Value of Work Done and forecast to complete.
Highly numerate with strong analytical skills. 
Experience of Finance systems.
Good MS Office skills including experience of using Power BI.
Good interpersonal skills and adept at interacting with individuals within the IS team.
Flexible and responsive to stakeholder requirements and changing environment.
Ability to deliver high quality work by deadlines and work effectively under time pressure.
Ability to work under minimal guidance and proactively highlight improvements.
Able to organise workloads to meet demanding and often changing priorities, ensuring that key deadlines are met.
Able to solve problems and create pragmatic solutions and improvements. 
Strong communication skills, ability to present information in a clear, timely and focused way.

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