Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
We are seeking an experienced, qualified financial professional with strong commercial, analytical and business partnering expertise. The role involves working closely with the business and finance team to analyze and report on previous performance and future trends to contribute to accurate business forecasts and support budgeting. Additionally, you will monitor and drive continuous efficiencies across the business.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead and coordinate Finance consolidation, processes, performance metrics and outputs, strongly supported by Revenue, Capex, Planning and Partnering teams.
* Deliver and own Financial Modelling.
* Coordinate and deliver the OPEX processes, including planning and consolidation of the OPEX model, leading out the OPEX consultation process and submissions in relation to Price Controls lookback and Price Controls.
* Develop project plans for the OPEX collation processes and implement such, coordinating activities across the Finance Departments and directly with the Strategic & Regulatory team to ensure high-quality price control OPEX submissions are delivered on time.
* Roll out, update and track OPEX allowances and overhead allocations across the business with Business Partner & wider finance support.
* 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 appropriately documented and challenged & verified prior to 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 projects of continuous improvement are developed, and real efficiencies are delivered.
* Assist Business Partners in deriving insights from monthly performance reports to gain an understanding of 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.
Requirements:
* 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, needs 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 invests 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.