Job Description

You’ll help us to maximize the short- and long-term goals for the organization through the development and provision of insightful, accurate and timely management information to the Board and Management team. You’ll work together with our central, regional, and local finance teams to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our reporting and forecasting processes.

Responsibilities:

• Production and ownership of accurate and timely consolidated management accounts and business information that satisfy group reporting requirements and enable effective understanding of operational performance.
• Analysis of monthly business performance including quality and insightful variance analysis and identifying any corrective action required, thus enabling regions and central functions to make more informed decisions.
• Analysis of financial data to better understand historical performance and to project future financial performance. This will take the form of visual representation of financial results and projections with insightful commentary.
• Work with the Finance Systems Manager, regional finance teams and schools to identify system improvements, efficiencies and continuous improvement of the reporting systems.
• Work alongside regions and functions to implement and embed the new Planning system and process and develop and share best practice reporting to derive consistent, quality insights across the organization
• Identify reporting opportunities including use of Power BI to automate manual processes to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of reporting

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong academic and intellectual background, degree level
• Extensive experience in the area of management reporting, variance analysis and visual presentation of financial projections and results
• Highly computer literate with finance systems knowledge and experience of implementing and overseeing reporting systems
• Strong commercial background and understanding of drivers of trading performance
• CIMA or ACCA qualified (Exceptions may apply)
• Advanced Excel skills including macros, pivot tables and data modelling
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for producing reports and presentations.
• Good cross-cultural, interpersonal and communication skills to interact with diverse nationalities and cultures
• Excellent analytical skills – with the passion and drive to demonstrate and quantify success
• Results orientated with the ability to consistently map efforts against identified KPIs
• Excellent time management skills and flexibility in dealing with multi-functional tasks