Job Title: Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
Our client is seeking an experienced financial professional with strong commercial, analytical, and business partnering expertise to support the analysis and reporting of previous performance and future trends, as well as drive continuous efficiencies across the business.
As a key member of the finance team, you will work closely with the business to provide high-quality advice, information, analysis, and interpretation that underpins the delivery of pricing plans, efficiencies, and performance improvement.
Reporting to the Business Partnering & Planning Manager, the ideal candidate will be commercially strong, have excellent business partnering skills, and possess very strong financial analysis expertise, including experience with Excel and Financial Modelling.
Duties and Responsibilities
Analysis and Reporting
* Act as the finance team subject matter expert, leading and coordinating finance consolidation, processes, performance metrics, and outputs, supported by Revenue, Capex, Planning, and Partnering teams.
* Responsible for delivery and ownership of Financial Modelling.
* Coordinate and deliver OPEX processes, including planning and consolidation of the OPEX model, leading the OPEX consultation process, and submissions for Price Controls lookback and Price Controls.
* Develop project plans for OPEX collation processes, implement them, and coordinate activities across Finance Departments and the Strategic & Regulatory team to ensure high-quality price control OPEX submissions are delivered on time.
* Work with Business Partners and wider finance support to roll out, update, and track OPEX allowances and overhead allocations across the business.
* Review and challenge OPEX cost base from a "base, step, and trend" growth perspective and document efficiency over the price control period.
* Prepare Exec and Board Finance regulatory presentations.
Efficiency
* Work with the Finance Business Partnering and Planning Manager to deliver the efficiency agenda within the business.
* Champion the cost agenda across the business, ensuring that efficiencies are documented, challenged, and verified before being recognized.
* Drive the cross-functional efficiency working group to ensure a consistent approach across the business in terms of definition, recognition, and reporting of efficiency.
* Ensure that projects of continuous improvement are developed and real efficiencies are delivered.
* Assist Business Partners in deriving insights from monthly performance reports to understand growth in the cost base, challenge that growth with the business, and identify areas of future potential efficiencies.
* Develop enhanced monthly reporting to track both efficiency and growth within the cost base.
* Present quarterly updates to the management team and the efficiency steering group.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Relevant third-level degree and at least 7-10 years relevant experience.
* Recognized accounting qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA) or equivalent.
* Experience using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to deliver reports and progress updates to the business.
* Strong report writing skills.
* Strong communication and presentation skills.
* Commercial experience and extensive understanding of Finance, needed to understand the challenges faced by the organization to effectively serve the business.
* Ability to undertake a rigorous assessment of organizational capacity for change and innovation and invest time and energy in building a culture and capability to deliver it.
* Expert analytical expertise, able to manage large data sets and draw insights from the data.
* Project management experience, ability to manage multiple stakeholder groups.
* Ability to identify and resolve risks and issues.
* Ability to build a strong culture of communication within Finance and the Business and adept at gathering inputs from internal stakeholders.
* Ability to mobilize the energy and commitment of a range of players, whose input is needed for success, even when they have no formal authority over those players.