Job Description

This exciting high-profile position presents a fantastic opportunity to build relationships at various levels and work with numerous stakeholders across Finance and the Consumer Mobile Commercial Teams. Those relationships will enable you to influence and shape the delivery of the Drivers Based Forecasting requirements and to develop strong partnerships with subject matter experts from across Finance & Commercial Teams.
This role ensures that the programme delivers robust planning assumptions keeping in line with billing activity vs. P&L impacts, customer journeys through data integrity and accounting logic where necessary to produce accurate P&L forecasting on a monthly basis.
Responsibilities:

• Helping to shape roadmaps & plans on finance integration/transformation work streams within the Drivers Based Programme, both from a Project and mobilization perspective
• Liaising with Finance & Strategy subject matter experts to define and produce viable solutions & ensuring they are contributing to work stream plans at the appropriate points
• Aiding sign off of work streams through user cases, logic building, data modelling and UAT of actuals and forecasts
• Analyzing processes/procedures and providing tactical and strategic improvement solutions
• Providing regular updates on project progress to the Consumer Mobile Teams
• Identification of risks and issues to the Drivers Programme team as well as Finance & Strategy LT; working with Programme on mitigations to reduce or remove risks and issues.
• Working with external teams as well as internal teams to understand and implement learnings from previous Drivers Based projects

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Accountant and experienced finance change professional with a good understanding of key finance processes, accounting standards & data platforms
• Strong data manipulation, UAT & project management experience
• Experience in the Anaplan forecasting tool (desirable) or similar
• Strategic thinker who also has the ability to focus on the detail
• Strong understanding of different areas of finance and how they interact
• Highly organized & comfortable within ambiguous, fast moving landscapes
• Strong communication, influencing & negotiation skills across various levels & stakeholders
• Self-starter, able to think creatively and break new ground whilst being a change catalyst