Why Work at Lenovo
Description and Requirements
Summary: As a Deal Finance Analyst in Lenovo Solutions & Services Group, you will play a vital role in supporting pre-sales bid and proposal management for customized and complex deals. Within this role, you play a vital role in assisting our sales, pre-sales, and delivery teams to govern sales processes and execute complex deals, with a particular focus on bid financial management. The Deal Finance Analyst is a key role in the pursuit process, with an objective to manage the pursuit to a successful outcome, applying financial management methods, skills, best practice and tools. To be successful in the role, you should demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders and have a strong track record of pre-sales bid financial process execution.
Responsibilities
1.Deal Financial Governance: Responsible for executing and optimizing the deal assurance processes for pre-sales bid solutions, including but not limited to pricing approval, tax review, price benchmarking, credit approval, treasury approval, accounting due diligence and other critical stages. Provide timely updates to stakeholders such as deal desk and other finance functions.
2.Deal Financial Policy Management: Implement, review and improve deal finance policies when improvement areas are observed. Ensure all financial processes comply with company policies and legal regulations, enhancing approval efficiency and accuracy.
3.Bid Support: Provide comprehensive financial support for the company's bidding activities, including but not limited to preparing the financial section of bid documents, bid P&L analysis, tax impact analysis, funding arrangements etc. Ensure the financial rationality and competitiveness of the bidding proposals.
4.Financial Modelling and Reporting : Conduct financial analysis based on pre-sales solution data, providing decision support to management. Regularly compile and share financial analysis reports, including but not limited to monthly deal capital control report, cash flow projections etc., contributing to the formulation and optimization of business strategies. Build Financial models to evaluate deal profitability and returns
5.Process Optimization and Knowledge Transfer: Continuously optimize pre-sales financial assurance processes to improve work efficiency. Organize or participate in internal training to impart financial knowledge to the pre-sales team and other relevant departments, enhancing the team's overall financial awareness and collaboration capabilities.
Education, Skill & Experience
- Degree in Finance or related discipline
- Six to Eight years of relevant experience in Financial modeling, planning and analysis.
- Must have experience in project/deal management.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities, and proficiency in financial software and tools.
- Start - Up mentality to create non existing processes.
- Teachability and keen sense of curiosity.