Job Description

To support the Finance and Enterprise Finance and Operations team to provide a comprehensive, responsive, commercially focused, high quality financial management function both directly and by drawing on the shared services provided elsewhere within the Finance organization.

This will be achieved by providing high quality, timely, customer friendly and well delivered reporting, analysis and business partnering covering all of Enterprise which is insightful and supports the broader Enterprise management team with their decision making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Finance to ensure that the actual financial and operational results of the company are provided to the management team on an accurate and timely basis together with a concise, action orientated, business focused commentary.
• Support Finance to ensure that the company has in place an up to date, high quality full year forecast that reflects all relevant material issues, opportunities and business plans, is prepared on a timely basis, shows the road map by which the required full year results will be delivered and which is owned by line management.
• Support Finance to ensure that the company has in place a high quality budget and Long Range Business Plan that reflects all relevant material issues and business plans, is consistent with and delivers the results required by the Strategic planning framework for the Group, is prepared on a timely basis and is owned by line management.
• Support the VP Finance to proactively and reactively provide ad hoc financial and operational analysis and advice that will help the leadership team and their direct reports to deliver optimal operational performance through high quality strategic and tactical business decisions.
• Be proactively involved in preparation for business cases, taking a lead or support role as necessary but always ensuring that concise high quality business case is prepared in support of all business decisions.
• Ensure that the actual financial return in the business case is monitored against the originally planned outcome and that necessary action is taken accordingly.
• Actively business partner the Enterprise business unit to proactively provide constructive, high quality commercially focused financial advice in support of the company goals and performance.
• Take ownership in delivering across the four key pillars of Planning, Reporting, Controlling, Analyzing/Evaluating.
• Work closely with central Finance to ensure the upstream and downstream processes are working appropriately such that the financial data and reporting required to deliver these four areas can be easily obtained and relied upon.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Graduate with professional accounting qualification or equivalent.
• Four to seven years of progressive experience in accounting, financial modelling and analysis within quality companies. At least half of the time should have been spent in commercial finance roles.
• Superior analytical skills coupled with good strategic business understanding leading to key business insight.
• Creative problem solver and decision maker.
• Ability to draw high quality analysis out of the results that drive decisions in the BU.
• Strong people skills, confident and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an intellectual and multinational environment at all levels. Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• A commercially astute Finance Manager, the candidate must be technically strong, and influential with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
• Strong work ethic and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with passion for excellence and innovation.
• Proactive individual with the ability to effectively manage various projects while adhering to deadlines.
• Have a good appreciation of core best practice financial accounting standards, policies, processes and systems.
• Ability to work across cultures and time zones.
• Experience of SAP, Tableau and Adaptive Insights systems an advantage.