PRE-SALES FINANCE ANALYST

Position Description.
Do you love pre-Sales and have a penchant for numbers? CGI require a Pre-Sales Finance Analyst to work closely with our Pre-sales team and technical experts - you will be responsible for providing the finance review slides used to help support new bids.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine.
We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (% matching) which makes you a member not just an employee.
We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant.
Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts.
We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
Your future duties and responsibilities.
Exposed to all the areas of GTO Pre-Sales you will be developed on the job and through a formal training plan.
The aim, to progress through the many job family routes, of one of the many areas within this organisation at the forefront of winning GTO opportunities.
Your area of specialism and initial assignment will be the finance activities in all opportunity pursuit stages, PQQ/ITT through to final written submissions.
You’ll have skills and experience of being able to use financial principles, have fantastic attention to detail and a great desire to learn.
You'll need to be able to quickly understand a clients' financial requirements, apply CGI financial principles and enjoy working in a bid team requiring resilience and flexibility.
Key Activities.
• Setting up CGIs opportunity internal pricing model with the appropriate parameters to support both external client and internal finance requirements • Populating CGIs opportunity internal pricing model with standard quote models and bespoke entries as required • Ensuring consistency and quality of all entries into and the format of CGIs opportunity internal pricing • Requesting and pursuing quotes for the GTO cost elements of a pursuit as requested by the GTO solution, technical, service and transition bid team members • Managing the assurance processes to enable solutions and their pricing to be underwritten by the appropriate GTO teams ahead of key formal assurance gates • Supporting any other specific bid activities as required by the core team.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role.
• BSc degree, ideally Economics/Mathematics/Finance.
• You must be financially literate, an excel expert and have high level of attention to detail and meticulous in ensuring accuracy.
• An overwhelming desire to take up a long term career development position, with the proven ability to learn and understand requirements quickly, you will also have the forming aptitude to input value into initiatives.
• Confidence to effectively converse with all members of the Solution Architecture team, wider virtual GTO presales teams, GTO finance and GTO delivery lines demonstrating capability to create valuable networks.
• Understanding of financial principles that would lend themselves to the generation of consistent and accurate IT Outsourcing (ITO) quotes, assurances and internal financial models.
• Capability in the use of Microsoft Excel.
• A willingness to undergo long term training through work activities and formal training courses.
• Enthusiasm to understand and develop the activities involved in managing an ITO opportunity from inception through to delivery.
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