Job Description

You’ll analyze trends and performance producing analysis and turning complex data into insight, enabling key senior stakeholders to make well-informed decisions. You also own and deliver timely and complex income/expenditure modelling to support all financial planning for your business area.
You’ll be a fantastic communicator with the ability to build strong relationships at all levels. You’ll thrive in a matrix structure, and you’ll have significant experience of complex financial planning, modelling and reporting, as well as the ability to clearly present and explain complex financial information.
Key Accountabilities:

• Use your expertise and experience to provide high quality analysis and decision support to initiatives, projects and business cases from any area as requested by the finance leadership 
• Analyze trends and performance, feeding findings into forecasts and long-term financial planning
• Identify opportunities to drive change and improve the financial acumen of ourdecision makers
• Develop and provide complex income/expenditure modelling to support all financial planning (forecasting, budgeting and long-term planning) for specific business areas.
• Communicate clearly to enable the organization to own and take responsibility for their plans.
• Act as an advocate and role model for understanding cost drivers and cost control
• Own and deliver timely and insightful reporting for your specified business areas. Understand what is needed to inform decision making and identify and clearly communicate the impact on the future
• Review existing management information and analysis to find efficiencies and improvements ensuring that resource is focused on the organization’s top priorities
• Work closely with the management accounts team to ensure accounts are complete and correct
• Coach, support and matrix manage finance analysts and management accountants
• Build and maintain a network of strong relationships with heads and Directors to support implementation of the Finance Strategy

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified accountant (or by experience) with significant post-qualification experience
• Significant experience of complex financial planning, modelling and reporting 
• Significant experience of building, managing and evolving business partnering relationships at senior management level
• The ability to communicate well and build strong relationships at all levels, internally and externally, influencing a range of stakeholders to deliver strategic initiatives and build new opportunities
• Ability to thrive in a matrix reporting structure, often delegating to others while not having direct line management responsibilities
• Highly numerate with an analytical approach to problem solving a broad range of challenges.
• Able to effectively communicate specialist advice and guidance to colleagues and management teams
• Proactively maintains an understanding of external operating environment and can interpret impact on the organization’s financial plans and decisions
• Ability to act as influential specialist within broader organization for specific knowledge and expertise 
• Ability to work autonomously to deliver on complex assignments often involving ambiguity, can set and meet deadlines while maintaining strong attention to detail and effectively managing expectations
• Innovate, take a step back and question what you and the wider team are doing, strive for continuous improvement in processes, approach and outputs
• Ensure equality and diversity is celebrated and considered as part of all decisions taken
• Cares about the wellbeing and development of the wider finance team, demonstrates coaching and mentoring abilities with more junior team members