Who we are and what we do?

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, non-profit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being. Our work focuses on building sustainable and livable cities and working towards a low carbon economy. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, World Resources Institute puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being.

Program overview for Operations

WRI Operations team supports the crucial front-line work of the organization, they directly interact and work with Donors, Partners, Government agencies, Statutory bodies, Trustees, Vendors, and Consultants in fielding their inquiries, providing support at all the fronts and solving problems. So that the WRI programs can be implemented without any hurdles and the program staff and researchers can develop high quality research documents, plans and implement the programs at the field level.

About your role

In this role, you will be based in the WRI India office and support the WRI Global central finance team and report to the Senior Finance Manager. You will be responsible for maintaining the budgeting system and assuring the data is updated and accurate. You will be responsible for maintaining the financial reports through WRI’s web-based solution, create new financial reports and dashboards for users as needed.

How your day will unfold

You will work with the Senior Finance Manager to lead projects in the following areas:

• Monitor and assure financial reports are up to date; work with users to develop new reports; Standardize reports, both in template and formatting. You will use the IBM Cognos BI web-based solution for professional reports as well as research using other areas of the IBM Cognos BI suite to improve financial performance tracking and monitoring
• Responsible for developing enterprise dashboards and reports using IBM Cognos BI report builder to meet the needs of stakeholders and assist users to develop their own financial dashboards.
• Analyze complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to analysts and decision makers.
• Create specifications for reports and analysis based on business needs and required or available data elements.
• Develop deep understanding of the databases, identify appropriate data sources, relationships and logic needed to produce consistently reliable reports.
• Provide support to end-users through instruction and functional knowledge transfer, training, and perform recurring reporting reviews with stakeholders to walk through opportunities for improvement based upon reporting insights
• Assist in developing and maintaining data standards
• Familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures
• Participate in the development of the reporting roadmap as means to ensure the organization has the proper reporting software and infrastructure
• Maintain knowledge of new product capabilities as means to identify potential improvement opportunities
• Maintain and update the budget system using its processes to keep information synced with the project ERM
• Work with the Senior Finance Manager and external consultants to resolve issues in the IBM Cognos TM1 system
• Develop and deliver training for employees in WRI and its affiliated partners on financial and operational systems and processes
• Assist the central finance office in various analyses and scenarios related to financial and operational needs

Qualifications and Requirements we seek.

• Master’s degree and 5 years of experience in business, finance or related field
• Experience with ERP systems, specifically Deltek Costpoint
• Experience with IBM Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics
• Preferred knowledge in SQL language
• Experience in analysis of financial data: accounting, budgeting, and planning
• Experience writing financial reports with accounting data
• Familiarity with visual analytic dashboards (Power BI, Tableau)
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office suite of tools
• Excellent mathematical skills and analytically-minded
• Strong customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
• Experience training users to systems
• Commitment to WRI’s mission and values
• Passion to work with people across all levels and with different cultures
• Detail-oriented and organized thinker who can juggle multiple, competing priorities
• Maintain high standards of self-performance, remaining focused on work completion
• Ability to work both independently and with the team
• Creative thinker, willingness to roll up sleeves and find a solution.