LOCATION: Bucharest, Romania
THE ROLE:The role plays a pivotal role in enabling data-driven financial steering and performance transparency across the organization. It also combines financial planning and analysis with business analytics and reporting, supporting budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management decision-making. Develops and enhances Power BI reports, dashboards, and data models, integrating financial, operational, and commercial data to deliver actionable insights, improve reporting efficiency, and enable data-driven decisions.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:- Develops and maintains Power BI reports and dashboards that provide management with clear and actionable insights into financial and business performance.
- Develops semantic models using DAX, Power Query (M) and sound data-modelling and performance-optimization practices.
- Develops integrated data models that combine financial, operational, and commercial data into actionable reporting and decision-support tools.
- Uses SQL to query, transform and validate large datasets and investigates discrepancies to ensure reporting accuracy and consistency.
- Applies appropriate Power BI governance practices, including deployment processes and row-level security.
- Leads stakeholder discovery sessions to understand business questions, define reporting requirements and translate them into analytical solutions.
- Promotes adoption of BI tools and data literacy across Finance and the broader organization through documentation, training and user enablement.
- Automates recurring financial reporting, forecasting and variance-analysis processes to improve efficiency, scalability and data quality.
- Supports annual budgeting process.
- Performs monthly and quarterly actual vs. budget, and prior-period variance analysis, identifying key financial and operational drivers.
- Prepares and enhances management reporting, providing clear commentary on business performance, trends, risks and opportunities.
- Provides analytical support for strategic initiatives such as pricing, customer segmentation, sales efficiency and profitability optimization.
- Close collaboration with US colleagues as part of the Reporting team.
- Analyzes relevant SaaS performance metrics, including ARR, MRR, bookings, billings, renewals, churn, pipeline and other subscription-related KPIs. – preferred.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:Knowledge and Application:
- Requires complete knowledge of financial and analytical frameworks, with hands-on expertise in business intelligence tools and data integration. Applies sophisticated analytical techniques, advanced modelling, and automation logic to solve a wide range of business challenges. Develops new approaches to performance reporting and continuously refines internal processes, policies to improve scalability and insight quality.
Complexity and Problem Solving:
- Works on complex financial and business analytics topics requiring in-depth analysis of multiple data sources and business drivers. Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate data discrepancies, validate results, and clearly explain findings to both technical and non-technical audiences. Independently determines appropriate analytical methods and exercises judgment in evaluating financial performance, investigating variances, and developing reporting solutions. Effectively manages multiple priorities and competing requests while communicating timelines, risks, and dependencies. Work is reviewed upon completion and is aligned with departmental objectives.
Collaboration and Interaction:
- Collaborates across departments to translate business needs into analytical solutions. Serves as a key advisor to senior internal stakeholders, including individuals who may be unfamiliar with technical data concepts. Adapts communication style based on the audience and advocates for data-informed decisions. Educates others on analytics tools and promotes a data-driven mindset across the broader business.
Qualifications:
- 6 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 4 years with a Master's degree; or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated experience in FP&A, including budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and variance analysis.
- Strong Power BI experience, including DAX, Power Query and data modelling.
- Strong Excel skills and working knowledge of SQL.
- Experience with SaaS business models and KPIs preferred. Microsoft Dynamics experience is a plus.
Interested? Apply now via our online applicant portal!
If you have any questions about the position or application process, our Talent Acquisition Team is happy to assist.
Florian Hermann
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Please note that we are unable to hire applicants residing in countries outside our legal entity countries. Please note that IGEL does not currently have a sponsorship license and is regrettably unable to offer sponsorship. We celebrate tolerance and diversity, and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, skills and perspectives. IGEL is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want the best available person in every job. Our policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.