Senior Business Analyst - Annotation Ops Business Planning

While reporting into a Program Manager based out of Hyderabad, perform data analysis and reporting for Annotations operations by interacting with vendors and drive process improvement for invoicing, spend details, resource tracking from vendors. Drive processes for budget allocation, budget management, and forecast preparation. Work with team of analysts to continuously improve operational metrics and build standard reports that can be shared with leadership. Prepare executive reports that summarize the ongoing program status and highlights risks. Establish financial controls and processes to handle financial reporting requirements KEY FOCUS AREA 1. Work with vendors of Annotation program to ensure timely processing of the service entry sheets to enable timely processing of weekly/monthly invoices. Candidate would also work on developing and streamlining quarterly, yearly reports for leadership. 2. Interact with all concerned partners of the Annotation program with objective of improving the invoicing process and accompanying datasets to provide cost attribution, cost tracking and budget management. You have to engage strategically across our vendor portfolio and inspire changes that lead to process efficiency, automation and financial diligence. 3. Team of contractors and analyst who will design and develop operational and leadership level reports and dashboards that support operational planning and critical metric tracking, You need to be hands-on with day to day responsibilities and should be proficient with the models and reports to support the team. 4. Train and guide resources and as needed and undertake process improvement projects 5. Ensure that the team works in accordance with the approved company operating policies, procedures, practices and methods

Bachelors in Business Administration or Finance or Statistics, MBA preferred