Job Purpose:
- Provide consistent and insightful management information (both forward looking and retrospective) to the members of the finance leadership team, Functional Leaders & Controllers and the BU Management Teams on the Cost of Organization and relevant Balance sheet items.
- Fulfil global requirements around management reporting, forecasting and budgeting. Drive continuous improvement.
- Deal with ad hoc questions and analysis, therefore, require a high degree of Commercial and ISC knowledge to build strong relationships with the Functional and Business Navigators.
- Supply analytical and predictive insights and develop new capabilities. Therefore, has expert analytical understanding of data, statistics, quantitative analytics and visualization.
- Provide leadership and people management to a team of FP&A analysts
Key Accountabilities:
- Lead the FP&A Cost of Organization team:
- Motivate team to be a high performing team;
- Ensure clear roles, responsibilities and development plans are in place;
- Drive engagement and viewpoint action planning.
- Drive all Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- Support all Group Initiatives and represent FP&A Cost of Organization towards them
- Support Finance leadership team and BU Navigators to plan and steer business results for cost of organization
- Support planning process for relevant cost of organization ensuring consistent information is presented and processes are optimized;
- Finance lead and drive the cost of organization budget and planning cycles:
- Engage BU finance leads and teams in overall planning / budget process, manage timelines and allocate responsibility;
- Ensure appropriate checks and data validation is in place;
- Consolidate data and ensure submitted into corporate systems;
- Ensure that management reporting is transparent and optimized across all units;
- Coordinate Group FP&A corporate processes like budgeting and forecasting. Actively participate in cross (BU) FP&A teams to drive cross learning and engagement
Experience & Educational Requirements:
- Experience of FP&A or controlling roles in cost of organization across Functional, Commercial and ISC environments
- Good understanding of the drivers of the business both Commercial and ISC
- Experience dealing with corporate requests and requirements.
- Strong grasp of key finance processes.
- 5+ years of experience in managing teams
Skills:
- Can present financial data in a credible manner to senior stakeholders;
- Able to communicate effectively with both senior and junior finance and non-finance colleagues;
- Able to handle multiple priorities and delegate accordingly;
- Able to engage and motivate a team;
- Excellent excel analytical skills;
- Excellent PowerPoint and presentational skills;
Capabilities (per finance capability framework):
- Maintains a flexible approach to constantly changing demands to be able to respond and adapt in a controlled manner;
- Develops team capability to work collaboratively with other teams;
- Develops a team ethos, where people feel valued & appreciated, ensures achievements recognized appropriately;
- Seeks out means to step change and re-engineer businesses processes to maximize value (e.g. service centre concepts, leading edge IT) drive;
- Owns data integrity management (accuracy/quality/change process) and takes action to ensure sustained;
- Incisive and interpretive reporting, understanding drivers of results and impacts on business decision making;
- Able to provide insightful reporting and to communicate complex issues clearly to finance and non-finance people;
- Recognized outside immediate team as being positive, reliable and responsible;
- Embeds new processes so they are sustainable to deliver ongoing benefit;
- Able to delegate effectively to manage conflicting priorities.
