TITLE: Analyst
Location: Houston, Texas
Compensation Range : $45,000-55,000

Analyst Position

Our client is a leading multinational financial management partner to corporations around the globe that is changing the rules of the game to empower clients. They look beyond conventional methods, conceive new strategies, and work hard to transform the financial industry.

But we do not stop there. Our company is firmly rooted in our core values. We are Caring. We care for people, and think, live, and work to serve the interests of our clients, employees, and environment. We are Committed. We go the extra mile to deliver the best results and exceed expectations. We are Independent. We are conflict-free; our culture of independence fosters transparency, fuels collaboration, and gives our clients full control of the decision-making process.

The Role

The Analyst will be involved in every aspect of advisory business: the review, analysis, and implementation of recommended strategies across all our expertise in addition to helping provide ongoing active advice.

As an Analyst, you will be part of multiple project teams managed by an associate. You will on work on average 3-4 engagements for both domestic and international clients, across diverse sectors and several areas of expertise.

Main expertise: Payments and Collections, Merchant Cards. The Analyst may also work on Treasury organization and systems, liquidity, cash pooling and Debt advisory projects.

The Team

A candidate looking to join the team can look forward to becoming part of a growing firm that promotes from within. As a global company, a candidate can expect a high degree of international exposure from not just our clients and the markets we serve but our team as well. We are committed to building a diverse workforce with multi-representational leadership.

We are a very French company, and as such, a candidate looking to join our team can expect an environment that nurtures creativity and innovation; we provide our employees with flexible working spaces, lounges, standing desks, and open spaces – not even our executives have private offices. Other benefits a candidate can expect include a culture that rewards our team members for hard work, robust benefits, a casual dress code, and an emphasis on health and wellness. We do not eat lunch at our desks, all team members are encouraged to fully utilize their lunch hour and share a meal with your team members – work can wait.

Responsibilities & Activities
Hard Skills

• Be able to analyze large quantities of both financial and business processes data and synthesize into models and relevant reports.
• Possess understanding and rudimentary use of statistical modeling, such as standard deviation, goal-seek, trending, and other analytical means or outputs.
• Create and take ownership of both external and internal facing documents with strict adherence to our formatting standards.
• Able to manage multiple concurrent projects supporting multiple project managers.
• Highly communicative and adept at using different mediums, such as Teams, Outlook, and Salesforce, to communicate internally and externally as needed.
• Take meeting minutes and produce detailed status and situation reports.
• Adopt proprietary frameworks for delivery of advisory services.
• Confident and professional presentation skills.
• Demonstrate significant Microsoft Office capabilities in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word along with the ability to master proprietary software applications.

Soft Skills:

We can help hone the hard skills, but to be successful in this role, you will need to have these minimal core soft skills:

• High level of organization becomes conversant with and respects delivery processes, excellent prioritization of to-dos, consistently meets deadlines (both internal and client deadlines), anticipates deadlines, easily manages multiple projects at the same time.
• Technical Proficiency: Demonstrates expertise in their product line as recognized by clients.
• Self-Starter Strives for continuous self-development by learning from others (colleagues, clients), as well as seeking out knowledge and information from multiple sources.
• Detail Oriented & Accurate: Dedicates the necessary time and effort to ensure reports and analyses are 100% accurate, clear and comprehensible to the client.
• Critical thinking: Can apply critical analysis to assess multiple options and to prioritize business requirements.
• Flexible & Proactive: Should be quick to accept and action additional tasks as requested by clients or assigned within the team, all with a positive can-do attitude.
• Innovative: Proposes tools and changes in the procedures, to improve the way we manage "standard” deals, to help speed up processes and help the team handle tasks more efficiently.
• Push Beyond Perceived Capabilities: Motivated to continually improve, mature, and to go the extra mile in terms of customer focus, communication, acquiring knowledge, and problem solving.
• Team Building & Collaboration: Builds effective working relationships, working collaboratively and with the aim of helping other team members progress by sharing expertise, and being able to accept and take action on constructive feedback.

Experience Needed

• Associate's degree is a requirement, Bachelor's degree is preferred;
• Preferred fields of study: Accounting, Finance, Economics, or field of study requiring extensive experience in academic research.
• Associate's degrees must be supplemented by a minimum of two years relevant work experience;
• Candidates currently pursuing a degree while working would also be considered subject to satisfactory work experience.
• For recent, or imminent, Bachelor's degree recipients, internships in a similar industry or field of study is preferred;
• Fluent in both written and spoken English
• Multilingual or bilingual in French, Spanish, and English is a plus;
• Cash management experience, treasury practitioner, or corporate banking is a plus;
• Awareness of payments industry trends and emerging payment technologies is a plus;

About Infinity Consulting Solutions
At Infinity Consulting Solutions our mission is to cultivate successful long term relationships with candidates and clients matching the right candidate with the right client. We believe technology cannot replace the real personal relationships we cultivate. We reject the notion that technology alone is the answer to staffing which is why we our successful partnerships rely on collaboration NOT automation. ICS has been providing flexible staffing solutions for over 20 years in Information Technology, Compliance, Accounting / Finance and Corporate Support. Our staffing solutions include Contract, Temp to Perm and Permanent Placement.
ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

*W2 employees of ICS are offered comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision.