Strategic Financial Oversight Analyst

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

EBRD in London seeks a proactive Analyst to support planning, budgeting, procurement, and governance processes. You will work as part of a squad, ensuring financial controls, timely reporting, and high standards across the department.

You will coordinate POs, goods receipt, invoicing, and budget tracking, engage stakeholders across regions, and help drive structured programmes and cost management using SAP and standard IT tools.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills, proactive and flexible attitude to work.
• Good stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to exercise judgment on and deal discretely with confidential/sensitive information and data.
• Ability to multi-task while remaining calm and professional.
• Highly computer literate: Windows 365: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Knowledge or experience of budget administration, financial controls, and supporting budget tracking or forecasting activities.
• Ability to analyse, validate, and reconcile financial and administrative information to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Experience supporting purchasing, invoicing, expenses, or similar administrative finance processes.
• Knowledge of SAP (financials and expenses) or similar financial systems is desirable.
• Strong customer and service oriented approach when working with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Understanding of technology costs, cost drivers, and commercial principles
• An accounting or bookkeeping qualification, or equivalent practical experience, would be an advantage.
• Experience supporting or coordinating structured programmes, initiatives, or projects involving multiple stakeholders across departments or locations.
• Good project coordination skills, including tracking actions, maintaining plans, monitoring progress, and escalating risks or issues where required.

Responsibilities

• Manage the processing of Purchase Orders (POs) accurately in line with financial controls, coding standards and contract terms, and timely resolution of exceptions.
• Provide oversight for the Goods Receipting and Invoice Approval processes in coordination with Contract managers across the department by ensuring the appropriate recipient of goods are correctly assigned in the system and validating the set-up, monitoring exceptions, and following up with designated receivers and reporting as required.
• Undertakes budget management activities - ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely submission in line with defined standards.
• Support the Principal & CIO Office with planning, budget & contract management, reporting and analysis processes, as required.
• Coordinate the planning & delivery of annual structured Tech programmes (such as AI upskilling) for countries of operation, in collaboration with stakeholders in ROs, as defined by MD IT & Leadership Team.
• Support project management and coordination for key Technology initiatives, such as strategic partnerships or externally focused programmes, as defined by the MD IT & Leadership Team.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Stakeholder engagement

Multi-tasking

Microsoft Office

Budget & financial controls

Financial analysis & reconciliation

Purchasing & invoicing experience

SAP knowledge

Customer service orientation

Commercial cost principles

Project coordination

Education

Degree-qualified or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

Job description

EBRD in London seeks a proactive Analyst to support planning, budgeting, procurement, and governance processes. You will work as part of a squad, ensuring financial controls, timely reporting, and high standards across the department.

You will coordinate POs, goods receipt, invoicing, and budget tracking, engage stakeholders across regions, and help drive structured programmes and cost management using SAP and standard IT tools.