What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at Boston Consulting Group?
This position supports BCG North America’s Travel & Expense functions, maintaining processes and controls centered around expenses submitted through BCG’s expense system, airfares booked through American Express Business Travel Account (BTA) cards, and rideshare charged to BCG’s centralized account.
As a member of the Card Administration, Analytics and Fraud Prevention team, you will work closely with Finance Leadership and other Finance teams in BCG across the US and Canada to deliver reliable reporting and analytics of travel and expenses for employees. Through a detailed understanding of the data and BCG policies, the analyst should identify trends and provide recommendations.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a member of the Card Administration, Analytics and Fraud Prevention team, you will work closely with Finance Leadership and other Finance teams in BCG across the US and Canada to deliver reliable reporting and analytics of travel and expenses for employees. Through a detailed understanding of the data and BCG policies, the analyst should identify trends and provide recommendations.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and maintain aspects of the audit processes for expenses submitted via centralized systems (data analysis, reporting, weekly/monthly audit, process improvement, and fraud prevention)
- Perform travel and expense audits/investigations with high-level proficiency including expense report review, exception follow-up, and periodic communication with local offices and senior stakeholders
- Maintain quarterly, monthly, and weekly analytics to identify outliers and other trends, and notify stakeholders with recommendations
- Understand BCG’s policies and procedures to flag exceptions and recommend alternative actions
- Build and recommend additional analytics to support business needs
- Provide risk analysis with a strong attention to detail and present findings to senior stakeholders
- Prepare time sensitive ad-hoc requests which may require collaboration across functions
- Demonstrate ability to multi-task and prioritize work to meet deadlines
- Promote cooperation and foster teamwork to accomplish targeted deadlines
- Dynamic, self-starting professional
- Passion for and experience in process efficiency
- Solid analytical ability with strong attention to detail
- Ability to present data meaningfully
- Customer service-oriented behavior
- Successful performance in a fast-paced, intellectually intense environment
- Respect all BCG information as personal and confidential
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance (or relevant business field), with 2 years of relevant work experience with analysis, reporting, and/or audit
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Business Objects or similar data query tool experience
- Alteryx or similar data analysis tool experience
- Tableau or similar data visualization tool experience
- Proficient in Power Automate and other automation tools
- Familiar with AI process enablement