About The Role:

The role sits within Group Planning and Performance and will require working with the existing team to understand existing processes and design and build solutions in order to reduce the time spent consolidating results and plans, allowing the team to focus on analysis and value-add activities in the longer term. The role is expected to be very hands-on in with developing models and building out reporting capability.

Specific process improvement projects are likely to include:

• To define and shape the future FP&A reporting needs for the new ERP implementation

• Review of P&L and KPI reporting processes and developing methods to automate management information

• Delivery of improved cashflow reporting to reduce time and increase accuracy and understanding

• Delivery of improved balance sheet reporting to reduce time and increase accuracy and understanding

• Building a balance sheet and cashflow planning model to bring together direct and indirect forecasting methodologies

• Review planning models to understand current processes and build an alternative solution increasing agility and ability to analyse budgets and forecasts

There will also be times where the role will be asked to support other teams within Group Planning and Performance, be it sense-checking 3YP assumptions, reviewing Budget or month end packs or producing month end packs.  As such flexibility is key.

Skills and Requirements

Essential:

• Qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA with relevant post qualified experience

• Demonstrable experience of building financial models and process improvement

• Advanced excel skills

• Experience in an FP&A role

• Prior exposure to cash flow and balance sheet reporting

• Flexible to change

• Analytical, quick to grasp the fundamentals of a business  

• Diligent, logical and quantitative in approach

• Ability to manage a high-volume workload in a fast-moving and changeable environment

Preferred:

• Previous experience in Telecoms or equivalent setting beneficial but not essential

• Power BI and HFM experience

• Prior experience as a Senior Finance Manager or equivalent

• Commercially astute individual from an analytical role within a data-rich business

• Communication and relationship building skills to enable you to interface and challenge a wide variety of stakeholders within and outside the business

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