Senior Finance Business Partner
Contract / TempJob Overview
The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function at Davies plays an integral role supporting the business in making educated business decisions, as well as being the focal point for all divisional reporting and budgeting needs. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who enjoys exploring the latest data analysis techniques, someone who wants to get involved in commercial business development support and is looking for a challenge.
The role will provide you with commercial exposure to all functions. You will play a key role in business partnering with consulting teams to produce valuable insights and to support business recommendations, taking ownership of the financial reporting.
Note: This is a fixed term contract for circa 6 months and will commence in late March/early April.
Note: This is a fixed term contract for circa 6 months and will commence in late March/early April.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and own all divisional reporting requirements on weekly, monthly/month end, and ad hoc basis, including:
o Davies Group finance deliverables – Revenue, EBITDA, Capex, Exceptionals, DART
o DGS EXCO pack reporting
o Consolidate weekly cashflow reporting to Group from sub divisions
o Adhoc divisional/sub-divisional reporting/analysis as required by DGS CFO/leadership team
- Be the focal point of all sub divisional submissions for month end/group requirements
- Own the consolidation of DGS divisional annual budget, supporting the sub division submissions. Submitting final numbers in line with DGC and Davies Group finance deliverable timelines
- Analyse trends and key drivers in business, suggesting solutions to mitigate risk and accelerate opportunities.
- Produce short-term and medium-term business forecasts & budgets and performance reports supported by insightful commentary on variances.
- Produce valuable MI to businesses, including SLT and board reporting.
- Liaise and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the organisation.
- Identify process improvements within the FP&A function, including getting best use from current and future finance systems.
- Be an expert/super user for the division in Planful, and Excel, understanding modelling techniques, and how to leverage other data tools such as PowerBI.
- Provide in-depth pipeline analysis to support growth strategies
- Provide ad hoc support to the DGS CFO whenever required.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Several years of FP&A Experience, ideally within the financial services sector
- Demonstrable senior stakeholder management skills
- Excellent modelling skills on excel, good with unstructured, high-volume data must (financial modelling skills are key). Power BI, Planful and MSD365, advantageous
- Strong commercial acumen and business partnership experience
- Experience working for a multinational company, understanding FX impacts, and working with a distributed workforce.
- Experience with productivity/utilisation analysis.
- Used to working in a central/group role across multiple disparate divisions
- Newly qualified – ACCA, ACA, CIMA
- Solution finder with the courage to challenge the status quo.
- Organised and capable of managing own time to meet multiple deliverables/deadlines
- Experience in the insurance / consulting industries desirable