Job Description

Undertake the Group Executive Functions (GEF) team activities including activities detailed below

• Provide Finance Business Partnering support to Business areas to manage their cost base and successfully plan for the future.
• Contribute to the setting of direction and goals through the provision of key advice
• Present Management Reports to senior stakeholders, ensuring that results and issues are well understood and explained in a way that is relevant to the business.
• Work with divisional colleagues, prepare regular forecasts including group-level quarterly forecast and 4 Year Operating Plans. Support and challenge the business so that the plans produced are robust, with well-understood risks and opportunities.
• Provide commercial and decision support on key projects, acting as a trusted advisor
• Become fully engaged on investment projects. Ensure interlock on all investment/project benefits, payback and objectives & key results
• Provide active engagement with the Cost Reporting Centre of Excellence to ensure an excellent flow of communication and standards of inputs/outputs
• Embedding the Group’s culture and vision by role modelling the Group’s leadership behaviors

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Becoming a trusted advisor, building and establishing positive relationships with key customers. Forming and talking through clear and tailored communications at all levels of the organization and supporting colleagues to provide insightful analysis

Getting Results - Consistently achieving results, delivering to deadlines; challenging poor outcomes or unproductive behaviors. Helping colleagues to overcome obstacles

Influencing - Using compelling arguments to gain the support and dedication of others. Crafting passion by building a compelling case, which you share in a timely and upbeat way to secure wide support

Being Organizationally Aware – Navigating comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics, bringing initiatives to the attention of those who can act as champions and advocates

Financial Planning & Forecasting Expertise – Managing finances so that goals can be achieved, negotiating financial barriers, and using appropriate methods to predict outcomes