Capita - Finance Manager - Financial Planning & Anlaysis (5-12 yrs)

Role Objective

A fantastic opportunity for a career minded and motivated qualified accountant to join a dynamic global finance team.

This role requires a confident and outgoing individual, who will be a key finance team member. The person must be willing to build strong relationships and must be comfortable providing both support and challenge to the business leads. The person must have confidence in their own abilities and be able to work independently with a proactive mindset.

To support the FP&A and CE Business teams with timely and accurate P&L, Cashflow and Balance Sheet analysis. To partner with the business units to help support and develop the analysis and forecasting processes for management reporting purposes. This role will have significant business partnering requirements, with day-to-day verbal and written communication with both the finance team, and wider business organization.

Professional Know-how

Academic: CA/CMA/ACCA/CIMA/MBA

Finance Experience: 6-8 experience years in analysis, accounting & management reporting role.

Primary Responsibilities

- Business Partnering with Business Unit Finance Partners. This will involve significant daily interaction with colleagues to provide accurate forecasting as well as understanding the key financial implications of the actions of the business.

- Analyze and compile accurate forecasts of costs and benefits.

- Revenue assurance and associated query resolution.

- Leading the budgeting and forecasting exercise, periodic review of performance against targets and ensure that the key drivers of variances are explained.

- Support the business with necessary management and financial information as part of their growth plans.

- Detailed analysis of FTE mix, overheads and other cost ledgers.

- Produce accurate and timely monthly reporting, ensure accurate representation of the P&L, manage month end closure, reconciliations of Working capital (WIP, DI, Accruals and Prepayments), and maintain cash flow reconciliations.

- Deliver monthly and ad-hoc reporting as per deadlines / requirements.

- Provide pricing and business case support on need basis.

- Assist finance team in streamlining existing processes and designing new reports and processes where necessary. Be proactive in providing feedback and ideas to develop and improve overall finance process.

- Lead in calls with stakeholders, liaising with internal / external auditors during annual / half yearly closures.

- Lead and train team members on various tasks and oversight of their responsibilities

- Critical support in ad-hoc analysis and data gathering within short turnarounds.

Key Result Areas

Essential:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Accuracy in interpretation and analysis of data

- Accuracy in reporting and adherence to deadlines

- Identify and implement process improvements.

- Excellent knowledge of MS Excel (XLOOKUP, SUMIF, COUNTIF, text manipulation, data validation, etc.) and MS Office applications

Desirable:

- Experience of working with service sector organisations

- Experience in SAP

- Knowledge & working experience of other tools