Job Description:
The company is seeking an experienced Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) professional to lead the finance team in providing high-quality advice, information, analysis, and interpretation that underpin the delivery of pricing plans, efficiencies, and performance improvement.
Duties and Responsibilities:
* As the finance team subject matter expert, lead and coordinate Finance consolidation, processes, performance metrics, and outputs, strongly supported by Revenue, Capex, Planning, and Partnering teams.
* Responsible for the delivery and ownership of Financial Modelling.
* Coordinate and deliver the OPEX processes, including the planning and consolidation of the OPEX model, leading the OPEX consultation process, and submissions related to Price Controls lookback and Price Controls.
* Develop project plans for the OPEX collation processes, implement them, and coordinate activities across the Finance Departments and directly with the Strategic & Regulatory team to ensure high-quality price control OPEX submissions are delivered on time.
* Work with Business Partner & 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, documenting efficiency over the price control period.
* Prepare Exec and Board Finance regulatory presentations.
Efficiency:
* Collaborate 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, challenged, and verified before being recognized.
* Lead 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:
* A relevant third-level degree and at least 7-10 years of relevant experience.
* A recognised 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, enabling effective service to the business.
* Ability to undertake a rigorous assessment of organisational capacity for change and innovation, investing 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, adept at gathering inputs from internal stakeholders.
* Ability to mobilise 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.
Key Requirements:
* Commercially strong with excellent business partnering skills.
* Very strong financial analysis expertise, including proficiency in Excel and Financial Modelling.