Job Description

• You will drive the engagement and challenge the ambition, and viability, of strategic plans, budgets and forecasts.
• Work with the business leadership team to develop, challenge, and then influence delivery of business strategy and KPIs.
• Be accountable with the business for sound commercial and financial decision making.
• Partner with business leadership team to instil a performance management culture including driving the performance debate in Review meetings and ensuring that risks, issues and opportunities are identified early and interventions/action plans agreed
• Drive the pace of business decision making, using facts, insight and commercial acumen, and influence business leadership to ensure resources are secured to deliver business change.
• Ensure that cost efficiency and a cost conscious culture is a key focus for the business units leadership team.
• Seek continuous process improvements and promote best practice.
• Collaborate with Investment Business Partner to support & challenge the business to deliver business case benefits & projects.
• Ensure financial and business controls remain relevant by working with accountable owners in Group or central functions.
• Define insight and analysis requirements and work collaboratively with the centre of excellence to deliver these.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• An excellent communicator who can guide colleagues and staff with no financial background in their understanding of financial management
• Ability to challenge and influence across a wide range of stakeholders, including senior levels in the organization
• Experience in supporting development of strategy and long term and short term business plans
• Experienced in driving right level of strategic debate in financial planning through a strong commercial mindset and with high levels of business acumen and experience
   

• Work collaboratively and supportively with colleagues
• Proven track record of effectively supporting and influencing stakeholders and providing a full ‘business partnering service’.
• Significant experience of budget and target management, including financial and non-financial metrics
• Experience of working within a large a complex matrix organization and manage multiple, and sometimes conflicting, priorities
• Ability to work at pace and evaluate risk
• Graduate caliber / Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)