Senior Finance Analyst
- Recruiter
- Michael Page
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £50 - £51 per annum
- Posted
- 10 Apr 2017
- Closes
- 10 May 2017
- Ref
- 13815507/001
- Contact
- Christopher Walker
- Job role
- Forensic accountant
- Sector
- Retail and FMCG
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
Act as part of Business Partnering team to provide financial support to the technology and Enabling Functions in the Core and Growth (emerging) markets to drive planning and overall performance
Client Details
Our client operates in more than 70 countries. They are headquartered in London but also have offices across Europe, Asia and South America. They are committed to a world that's always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible.
They are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology - and each other to surpass these boundaries - they create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world's innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Description
Main activities/responsibilities:
- Support Finance Managers in providing insight and analysis to the business to aid forward looking decision making
- Oversight of actual monthly results and KPIs and informed and insightful commentary thereon.
- Support decisions on project and portfolio investments, ensuring they are measured against financial targets
- Identify and address operational improvement and cost opportunities. Contribute and support to Technology, Operations and Enabling Functions Finance transformation initiatives as required.
- Develop & prepare financial business cases. Support decisions on pipeline investments, ensuring they are measured against financial targets
- Work collaboratively with Pearson Financial Services to deliver key reporting, planning and forecasting processes providing accurate and timely future facing data on which to base decisions
- Understand the businesses regulatory and audit requirements and ensure they are adhered to
- Consistent and extensive collaboration within Finance and across the business including colleagues in Geographies, Product groups, Enabling Functions, Country hub operations and Centres of excellence
Profile
Qualifications
Qualifications and experience required
- Qualified with demonstrable experience in management accounting role
- Fluent English speaker
- Experience working in a multi-national matrix organization
- Strong understanding of materiality and ability to prioritize across competing agendas
- Ability to conduct investment analysis and capital asset evaluation.
- Ability to identify business risks and implementation of tactics to mitigate
- Understanding of financial control, business performance management and process optimization and experience of working in more than one of these areas
- An understanding of putting internal financial results into an external market context
- Awareness of multiple business models and experience of working with more than one
- Understanding of finance specialist areas: tax, treasury, M&A, compliance, corporate governance and ability to utilize proper judgement to involve them as necessary.
- Participation in international projects, may be short or long term (preferred but not required)
Required Skills:
- Communication: strong verbal and written skills within finance, across the organisation and with external parties.
- Influence: presence and confidence to interact with senior management. Ability to leverage influence across teams and cultures.
- Emotional Intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, social skill) and the ability to apply it to work successfully in a matrix environment.
- Collaboration: with other internal teams and third party providers.
- Decision Making: understanding materiality, complex and uncertain situation, prioritization
- Performance focused: self & others
- Time Management: ability to work under pressure and to tight timelines, producing a high standard of work with attention to detail
- Analytics focused: organising information and manipulates data to identify/explain trends, problems and mitigating actions
- Driving change: identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation
Job Offer
The successful candidate will be offered a senior financial analyst position in Central London with a competitive salary and benefits package
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