You will be required to consistently produce credible, well researched, right first-time analytics in order to ensure senior management receive quality analytics and can drive performance

Responsibilities:

• Lead the FP&A strategy across a division of the business, proactively managing the relationships to steer change management and senior management decision support.
• Manage the provision of expense reports and underlying analysis into the respective division, ensuring requirements are met and delivered according to timetables set.
• Lead the financial planning and reforecasting process across the division's cost base
• Challenge expense plans to ensure delivery within budgets and work with senior management to identify and implement cost saving initiatives
• Lead ad hoc operational efficiency projects to significantly improve financial discipline and commercial awareness across the division
• Establish FP&A expectations and drive new design and standardization across a complex business decision matrix
• Work in conjunction with the wider FP&A team to continually update and improve all management reporting including design of new reporting, adaptation of existing reporting and establishing best practice
• Direct the preparation and consolidation of the respective division's budget to support achievement of overall finance plan.
• Manage the provision of regular standardized management information to business heads and support all ad hoc analysis as required to support and inform decision making
• Proactively adopt a customer focus approach and capture feedback on the quality of service-level delivery to these key stakeholders
• Manage the delivery of full monthly commentary, analysis, and communication of managed expenses across the respective division.

Skills:

• Extensive leadership and line management experience.
• Extensive FP&A and management accounting experience in a business facing, client support role.
• Project management and change management experience, to bring best practice to the role.
• Proven experience of making impactful, finance to business presentations.
• Proven successful track record of managing a team of professional and motivated staff
• Significant post qualified experience in industry or financial services.