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Job Title: Expense Efficiency Financial Manager -- IT & Shared...
Job Location: NY: New York
Pay Rate: Open
Job Length: full time
Start Date: 2008-09-17

Company Name: Credit Suisse
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Description: Expense Efficiency Financial Manager — IT & Shared Services – 0801006494

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As one of the worlds leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 45,000 people. Further information can be found atwww.credit-suisse.com. Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance. Departmental Overview: IB Expense Management is a highly visible motivated and dynamic team that supports the Investment Bank in executing on the global cost control strategy. IB Expense Management drives continuous and sustainable cost management activities and behaviour which are critical to the Bank’s overall profitability. Our aim is to deliver best-in-class financial results to shareholders by driving innovative non-compensation cost savings efforts for the Investment Bank. Specifically the Group is responsible for: * IB Division wide program execution, providing idea generation and implementation support * Monitoring progress, resolving issues, etc. * Partnering with the Business and Finance to manage the budget process * Partnering with Technology to manage the planning and budget process * Ensuring that permanent capabilities are built A role in IB Expense Management offers broad experience across multiple business lines and functional areas, exposure to senior management, and opportunities to drive significant impact to the Bank from conception through post-implementation realization. We are looking to hire experienced professionals with skills and attitude necessary to deliver outstanding performance in a challenging and fast moving environment. Key Responsibilities: * Analyze monthly IB technology & communication direct and allocated financials (actuals, forecasts, budget, recoveries and exit rate variances) * Analyze the book of work and monthly IB technology demand for - people and non-people expenses (applications, infrastructure, and contractors) * Produce analytics and reporting to help Expense Management, Divisional COOs, P&L controllers, and expense category managers to better understand expense trends, variances, impact of savings initiatives, and forecast details * Establish KPIs and transparency by expense line and identify hot-spots (exceptions, outliers to benchmarks and trends) * Identify and develop strategic and tactical expense and efficiency improvement strategies * Work with IB Front Office and Shared Services divisions (IT, Supply management, SFO, etc.) to establish governance, launch efficiency/savings programs and program/project manage initiatives to completion and savings realization.

Qualifications * Proven strategic thinking with hands-on project / program management experience * Financial background, ideally in technology finance / control * Knowledge of key technology areas such as hardware, software, networks, software development life-cycle, productivity measurement, portfolio management, etc. * Excellent communication and presentation skills * Previous experience interfacing with business and technology clients * Strong analytical skills * Bachelors or advanced degree in computer science with specialization in Finance or Accounting (desired) * Investment banking / Capital Markets experience (desired) * Knowledge ofEssbase and Business Objects (desired)

Profile Job Field Other Locations US-NY-New York Schedule Full-time Travel No

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