We are now recruiting for a Group FP&A Senior Manager role with our client, a successful market-leading global financial services PLC. They are looking for a candidate with strong financial modelling (able to build forecasting models) experience and commercial acumen / understanding of how a business operates from a cash flow and balance perspective.

The FP&A team are the forward-looking analytical engine of the Group Finance function, building robust, clear / simple / easy to use models, carrying out sensitivity / scenario analysis, and engaging with various stakeholders across the business to assist in commercial decision-making and analysis.

Role Summary:

This role is in Group Finance, with responsibility for supporting the delivery of the Group’s FP&A activities. This includes delivering the Group’s plans and budgets, cashflow forecasts, business valuations, driving financial analytics and insights, acting as a trusted advisor and storyteller to guide the company’s strategic growth, and supporting external reporting requirements.

Success in the role will be achieved through enhancements to processes and controls in data consolidation, supporting and driving all budget and forecast activities including cashflow forecasting, owning analytics spotlights, and managing relationships with relevant stakeholders. This role offers a great opportunity to gain and expand one’s knowledge of the entire company.

Role Responsibilities:

Planning and Forecasting, Financial Modelling and Stakeholder Engagement
• Support and drive accurate forecasting and budgeting, drafting high-quality deliverables with a clear financial story, synthesising and advising on trends and insights to aid informed decision-making. • Partner with business divisions and functions to understand and analyse performance, identifying risks and opportunities. • Lead analysis of balance sheet and cashflow movements, working closely with other functions including Treasury to accurately forecast future periods and ensure performance variances are clearly understood and explained • Consolidate, extract, and summarise data from various sources (OneStream and other systems), working with several stakeholders and colleagues to assess quality, suggest updates, and articulate improved forecasting. Undertake regular quality checks to ensure adequacy, accuracy, and legitimacy of data, and manage actions. • Stress test business assumptions, challenge and collaborate to create a clear outlook on future performance underpinned by robust and clear assumptions. • Develop executive presentations, Board packs, and other internal and external reporting. • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in FP&A processes and reporting, including establishing an operating rhythm with regions, consolidating data, periodic reviews of key KPIs, and streamlining reporting across all finance cycles. • Build financial models that support the forecasting process, applying best practice advanced Excel financial modelling to bring numbers to life. • Collaborate with other team members, demonstrating a willingness to work flexibly and ensure the team delivers to a high standard, creating an atmosphere of high performance and inclusivity. • Support the annual budget, forecasting, 5-year plan, bonus modelling, and any ad-hoc analysis to influence key business decisions.

Profile Criteria:
• Fully-Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with relevant experience from industry (rather than currently working in practice / Transaction Services), ideally in a Group Finance role but open to overall experience, if the person hasn’t worked in Group Finance (i.e., coming from M&A, Corporate Finance, Equity Research, Corporate Development)
• Must have a strong understanding of Cash Flow, Balance Sheet and Treasury (all important). Rather than a large organisation or ‘big bank’ Finance Business Partner or FP&A professional (who might only look at the Commodities, Equities, FX business, for example), this individual must be able to understanding revenue and cash flow movements that impact the whole business (rather than just for a single product or business unit) • Must be a confident user of Excel with the ability to build forecasting and valuation models themselves • Excellent communication skills and commercial sense • Candidates who are immediately available or available on a short notice period would be ideal

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