Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 

Our client is looking for an experienced, qualified financial professional with strong commercial, analytical and business partnering expertise. This role has 2 parts; to work closely with the business and finance team to analyse and report on previous performance and future trends to contribute to accurate business forecasts and support budgeting. Secondly to monitor and drive continuous efficiencies across the business.

You will work alongside the business to support the provision of high-quality advice, information, analysis and interpretation that will underpin the delivery of pricing plans, efficiencies and performance improvement.

Reporting to the Business Partnering & Planning Manager the ideal candidate will be commercially strong, have strong business partnering skills, very strong financial analysis expertise (Excel and Financial Modelling).

Duties and Responsibilities

Analysis and Reporting

·       The role will be the finance team subject matter expert and will lead and co-ordinate Finance consolidation, processes, performance metrics and outputs and will be strongly supported by Revenue, Capex, Planning and Partnering teams

·       Responsible for delivery & ownership of Financial Modelling

·       Responsible for the co-ordination and overall delivery of the OPEX processes including the planning and consolidation of the OPEX model, leading out the OPEX consultation process and submissions in relation to Price Controls lookback and Price Controls. Looking into the future and analysing the past.

·       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

·       With Business Partner & wider finance support, responsible for the roll out, update and tracking of OPEX allowances and overhead allocations across the business.  

·       Responsible for the review & challenge of OPEX cost base from a “base, step and trend” growth perspective and through the documentation of efficiency over the price control period.

·       Responsible for preparation of Exec and Board Finance regulatory presentations

Efficiency

·       Working with the Finance Business Partnering and Planning Manager to deliver the efficiency agenda within the business.

·       Championing the cost agenda across the business, ensuring that efficiencies are appropriately documented and challenged & verified prior to being recognised.

·       Driving the cross functional efficiency working group to ensure a consistent approach across the business in terms of definition, recognition and reporting of efficiency and leading by example as acting as the Finance efficiency representative.

·       Ensuring that projects of continuous improvement is developed, and real efficiencies are delivered

·       Assisting the Business Partners in deriving insights from the monthly performance reports to gain an understanding of the growth in the cost base, challenge that growth with the business and to identify areas of future potential efficiencies.

·       Developing enhanced monthly reporting to track both efficiency and growth within the cost base.

·       Presenting 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.

·       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, needs to understand the challenges faced by the organisation to be able to effectively serve the business.

·       Ability to undertake a rigorous assessment of organisational 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 managing 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 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.

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