Job Description

You will have a complete understanding of all financial plans, ownership of the process and the financial models. You will need the ability to be creative to find solutions, working with a continuous improvement mindset to not only ensure planning deliverables are met but also influence business decisions. This role requires effective cross-functional collaboration and strong financial leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Effective management and execution of the strategic planning, forecasting and budget processes, recurring monthly reporting, leading cross divisional engagement and providing central challenge.
• Business Partnering with Senior Leadership team to drive profitability and support on financial matters.
• Taking full responsibility of annual planning and budgeting processes.
• Build, develop and maintain production of commercial MI and performance analysis.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reporting, quarterly forecasting and budgeting.
• Provide leadership team with financial analysis to improve business performance.
• Development of business cases to provide insightful investment decision support to the senior leadership team.
• Lead and deliver on ad hoc projects that support critical strategic initiatives under evaluation including one off analysis to provide insight into drivers of financial performance of the business.
• Drive continuous improvement of analysis and forecasting tools and ensure continuous improvement of Monthly Exec and Board reporting capability, delivering insightful analysis and commentary.
• Support cost management initiatives, providing analysis and challenge to enable the business to deliver on cost optimization programmes.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified, with 3-5 years of experience (up to 2 years PQE) focusing on data and analysis, working within a high-performance finance team.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering improvements in financial reporting and planning with strong Financial Modelling and relational data analysis capabilities (Microsoft Excel and an understanding of dash boarding tools, e.g. Power BI).
• Strong business/commercial acumen, understanding of strategic direction setting and providing analysis to support this.
• Ability to work with and influence senior stakeholders, question and challenge thinking, in a proactive manner, that draws out key issues and questions, whilst maintaining effective working relationships.
• Self-starter, with ability to manage workload independently while prioritizing and delivering on the asks.
• Ability to communicate clearly by structuring analysis, findings and recommendations concisely, across all levels (internal and external).