Senior Analyst - Planning and Reporting

Job Description:

Main Responsibilities        

• Regular routine activities
  • Co-ordinate and communicate all FP&A requirements to the Service Line Teams ensuring timely submissions and support as necessary
  • Managing Budgeting, Forecasting and Actual Month End both P&L and NWC and performing variance analysis, trending analysis and share business narratives including visualisations  
  • Follow-up with the Service Lines to ensure any actions are followed up and implemented
  • Review and analyse Pipeline trends, identifying risks or opportunities, with reference to Salesforce
  • Review and analyse Headcount trends, identifying risks or opportunities and driving alignment to Workday
  • Ensure changes to FP&A requirements are fully understood and adopted by the Service Lines
  • Support UK&I FP&A and Commercial Finance team in preparation of analysis and presentation material, including extracting and analysing data in response to any ad-hoc analysis
  • Support the external audit process in providing analysis on the FP&A Team
     
• Development & improvement activities
  • Managing SQL database and working towards streamlining and making the data collection process more efficient
  • Managing & building PowerBI dashboards; exploring opportunities to create further value add reviews
  • Drive user usage of SAC, across the Service Lines and target go to resource for core financial analysis
  • Exploring and driving improvements in data automation and analysis through use of AI or other tech led solutions for efficiency
  • Link into Client Profitability project to improve accuracy of underlying data and utilise outputs to identify opportunities

Professional Skills

• MBA/ Finance graduate with 6-9 years in Reporting and FP&A
• Experience of BI, Planning & Consolidation Systems
• Experience with SQL for querying and managing financial models, reports, and dashboards using Power BI, SQL, and Excel large financial datasets; ability to integrate data sources for enhanced reporting
• Proficiency in Power BI, including DAX and data modeling, for building interactive dashboards and financial reports
• Demonstrable experience of informed review and analysis of results and forecasts
• Ability to clearly present work and analysis
• Problem-solving and analytical mindset
• Proactive approach and able to show initiative
• Excellent communication skills, confident with working across functions and levels
• Able to rapidly adapt to changing UK&I environment as well as wider Group landscape and requirements
• Advanced Excel and Modelling skills

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