Principal Finance Business Partner

Who we are

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer.

We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

Why this role is important to us

The Principle Finance Business Partner (FBP) manages financial processes for financial insight and transparency within the EMEA market unit. They will also translate business decisions into financial outcomes and use financial and business insight to effectively spar with, and challenge, the senior management teams of these units.

The FBP will also take initiatives on reducing complexity, establishing effective financial processes, and further develop our key financial deliverables, including the budget, forecast and monthly management report. In this respect, they will work closely together with the Market Unit (MU) and Global FP&A team for the execution of these initiatives.

The Finance Business Partner has direct and regular interaction with senior business stakeholders.

What you will be responsible for

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Act as a senior financial analyst and trusted advisor to the senior management team (SMT)

• Present the management report to the MU SMT with analysis and insight on variances to budget

• Support the sales organization in the shaping of deals and understanding the profitability of our offers to clients

• Drive financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and the monthly management report

• Ensure the financial forecast remains in line with the business outlook

• Ensure MU processes are in place to timely and effectively perform forecasting & budgeting

• Perform value adding financial analysis to identify business opportunities

• Drive development of financial transparency as well as financial analysis and insights

• Drive and/or contribute to finance and business initiatives and projects

• Drive and/or contribute to the development and optimisation of financial and business processes and the use of financial applications, including our new ERP system Workday

• Perform ad-hoc business partnering and controlling tasks

What we value

• Solid stakeholder management skills

• At least 7+ years of experience with financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and providing financial business support

• A structured and analytical mindset with a self-starter attitude

• The ability to work just as well independently, as in a team

• Effective collaboration and communication skills, bridging finance and business

• An eager mindset, a sense of urgency, and the ability to prioritize between multiple stakeholders in a rapidly evolving global environment

• An academic degree (or equivalent) in management or finance

• Fluency in spoken and written English

Next steps 

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. To make sure you receive our emails please check your junk/spam folder and add SimCorp to the safe list of your e-mail contacts. 

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