Job Description

This role is responsible for Consumer accounting & reporting to enable senior management to understand performance and is a key role in enabling excellent fact-based decisions to helping drive Consumer performance.
Responsibilities:
* Reporting
* Ensure the completeness and accuracy of monthly reporting
* Managing delivery of core data into financial systems to support reporting requirements including full control check and reconciliations
* Ensuring commercial explanations are fully understood for both financial and KPIs
* Working closely with commercial finance teams around the business
* Run variance analysis to explain commercial drivers behind forecast variance
* Improving standard process and adding efficiency
* Weekly Forecasting
* Providing insight and analysis in relation to weekly flash financial forecasts ensuring commercial drivers are understood and movements Vs Budget and previous Outlook are clearly understood
* Working with the making finance brilliant project and supporting the transition to the new SAP reporting system

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

* Qualified Accountant * Advanced financial modelling (excel) skills - ability to build/manipulate detailed models to arrive at appropriate outputs/metrics to support decision making. * Communication skills - translating complex financial outcomes to financial and nonfinancial stakeholders through both oral and written communication. Ability to tailor message to the relevant audience, distilling key messages without losing the appropriate level of detail * Ability to quickly establish credibility and respect and build strong working relationships. * Demonstrable professionalism with a proven ability to operate in a complex, fast paced matrixed business environment. * Able to identify issues, get to root causes through the use of financial analysis and insight to diagnose and solve problems * Able to deal with ambiguity, identify resources to implement and determine pragmatic solutions. * Bias towards bold and confident thinking, challenging the status quo where appropriate. * Patience and experience of navigating large, complex organisational structures