Job Description

• Defining, implementing and running financial planning and management reporting.
• Working closely with the Group Finance Director responsible for provision of financial planning and analysis leadership for the business, focusing on the monthly closing, forecasts and budget reporting and 5 year plan.
• Definition of high quality, insightful management reporting including actuals reporting, budgets, forecasts and operating dashboard/ KPIs for the Executive team and Board.
• Preparation of budget guidance to business areas as well as setting top down targets.
• Analyze consolidated budgets and forecasts and provide first round of challenge to the business areas including building gap mitigation actions.
• Working closely with the Group Finance Director responsible for the monthly closing process and reporting of actual results, providing detailed variance analysis of the results to all key business trends, risks, opportunities and actions to be reviewed with senior management.
• Development of key performance indicators to support business analysis. Ensure each area of the business is tracking the strategic and operational KPIs in a consistent way as defined by FP&A.
• Working closely with the finance business partners and business areas CEOS to ensure the financial performance.
• Conduct post implementation reviews on major areas of spend such as big transformation programmes.
• Working closely with Strategy to develop the long range plan with the baseline assumptions driven from FP&A and strategic initiatives development with the business.
• Driving focus on value and efficiency as part of the decision making process.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis as required by CFO.
• Work with finance and the business to collate gaps to best in class across all areas of finance and reporting.
• Identify, develop and implement new finance processes and drive automation and simplicity within NetSuite.
• Leading a process to ensure that current and future business requirements are comprehensively mapped.
• Ensure that any proposed solutions fit for the needs of the finance function in terms of quality, functionality and overall integrity.
• Working closely with IT, represent the finance function as users of the system, processes and solutions by providing clear expectations and acceptance criteria for the programme.
• To build strong relations and provide financial support to business.
• Act as business partner to the CEO and CFO.
• Identify areas of improvement/ streamlining across the business.
• Provide benchmarking analysis between business areas and to external benchmarks to highlight high performing areas and areas for potential improvement.
• Lead project (exceptional) and capex prioritization across business.
• Deputies for the Group Finance Director where required.
• Management of small team across UK and India.
• Be visible leader of finance.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities