Senior Financial Analyst – Expense Management

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Job Description

About The Role

Reporting to the Director, LCA and Risk Expense Management, the Senior Financial Analyst will be supporting the finance activities for Global Legal, Compliance, and Audit business partners. The Senior Financial Analyst responsibilities will include: delivery of monthly expense results, contributing to the final leader plan/forecast, and helping the achievement of expense results. Focus will be placed on key messages and actionable data to successfully assist the business leaders in the analysis and interpretation of expense information. The successful candidate will need to possess the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization .

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing support to Legal, Compliance, and Audit (LCA) functions for forecasting and budget processes. This includes assistance in the consolidation of various cost centers across multiple business units and markets (US, Canada, Asia, Corporate, GWAM and GA) .

• Be responsible for preparing complete and accurate monthly, quarterly and annual expense analysis for the function (e.g. Direct and allocated expenses).

• Support close processes (accruals, prepaids, etc.) to ensure predictable and accurate reporting.

• Present ongoing and ad hoc analysis, history and future, to senior management across the functions,

• Provide analysis within the closed loop process, while communicating with business partners using the primary drivers of expense changes or variances (e.g. volumes, services, cost savings, etc).

• Prepare monthly commentary for CERT (Power BI expense dashboard) functional and business unit or segment reporting.

• Understand and oversee accrual accounts for the function, to ensure they are properly recorded, reconciled and settled in a timely manner.

• Support financial oversight and validation of project business cases. Provide ongoing support of required project reporting to management.

• Continue to improve processes for higher efficiency and effectiveness, adapting to change and streamlining systems and processes

• Assist in developing unit cost models around key processing/activities and developing variable/fixed models to support expense model studies.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree (business, economics or finance preferred)

• Professional accounting designation or MBA or equivalent experience

• 5+ years progressive experience within finance

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate negotiate and influence effectively.

• Self-starter with the ability to work independently, particularly in the area of using sound, independent judgment, problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Results oriented, able to manage expectations, work under tight deadlines and manage competing priorities.

• Excellent customer focus and commitment to quality.

• Strong business acumen with ability to communicate complex concepts and results in a clear, concise, easy to understand manner (written and verbal).

• Solid analytical and technical capability - ability to assimilate/summarize a large amount of information from multiple sources and present in a value-added form for senior management

• Skills related to MS Office in particular Excel and Power BI. Familiarity with Lawson, Essbase.

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About John Hancock and Manulife

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife globally, including Canada, Asia and Europe. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were CAD$1.3 trillion (US$1.1 trillion) as of June 30, 2021. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at manulife.com .

One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports more than 10 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including life insurance , annuities , investments , 401(k) plans , and education savings plans . Additional information about John Hancock may be found at johnhancock.com .

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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