Controller in Managment Support

For our banking client based in Zurich we are currently looking for a Controller in Management Support

Location: Zurich

Start date: January 2016

Duration: 6 months

Languages: English and German

Key reponibilities:

- Providing monthly, quarterly and yearly reports of expenses charged for selected clients
- Ensuring the monthly controlling of outsourced account expenses including the accrual report, account netting and monthly closing process
- Ensuring monthly monitoring of department expenses
- Developing ad-hoc statistics and analyses for the department, clients, sub-department and sector heads and collaborating in the analyses for the strategic decision process
- Creating monthly statistics on quality assurance for all external top providers
- Providing the KPIs report for yearly agencies review
- Collaborating with management on satisfying ad-hoc requests coming from the department, finance and client
- Developing all Excel control files to cover the different business needs at L&TS
- Supporting management on gathering and analysing key data from external units in order to evaluate the current charging situation and tracking opportunities to improve and consolidate the control mechanisms
- Supporting management on monitoring the strategic development of L&TS (Management Information System) and create monthly reports for Switzerland and RoW: China, Japan, Russia and Brazil
- Supporting management and controlling teams on analysing and interpreting developments and trends through the existing reporting and creating new ad hoc reports.
- Prepare Key Figures (current costs, budget, reporting, charging of cost centers, etc.) and appropriate presentations to support management
- Evaluate the figures in order to elaborate business cases in order to propose new operating models in collaboration with the line and project mgmt (Zurich and London)

Essential:

- Appropriate business education and controlling certification.
-business acumen and ability to quickly understand business strategy and implications the projects
-A couple of years of experience in project controlling
-Technical knowledge and experience of MS Office tools, particularly Excel, including good skills in Macro Programming, and other controlling software.
-Experience of working in a large organization
-Good communication skills
-Fluent spoken and written English
-Ability and to analyze strategic and charging data to identify business improvement opportunities and trends.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.