Assistant Manager - ES Agile Finance Analyst - FMCG/IT

Assistant Manager - ES Agile Finance Analyst ( Only CA or MBA (Finance))

Job Title: Assistant Manager: -ES Agile Finance Analyst

Overall role purpose

To support FBP manager in:

- Drive increased value for the business through specific value projects/interventions

- Share lessons learnt and standard intervention tools with the FBP community

- Deliver end-to-end value interventions rather than working solely within an operating unit

Key accountabilities and deliverables:

Supporting the agile finance business partner on all the tasks below:

Strategic Finance Business Partnering for Service Line transformations and new scope:

- Business case preparation, Scenario modelling & evaluation

- Rigorous and challenging scrutiny over costs and benefits, and interventions on project performance

- Supporting communication and change management of major initiatives through clusters & functions

Financial input on major contract negotiations development with 3rd parties

- Lead financial business case development, Cost modelling, including treasury and tax considerations

- Finance lead in procurement process & supporting negotiation inputs

- Provision of data analytics with Contract Managers (& link to FET team)

Ensuring strong alignment with FET activities

Ensuring all FBP led activities integrated into FET plans, forecasts and tracking tools

Ensuring BC benefits are landed

Key point of contact for SL VP in:

- Service Line strategy development & Value moments

- Leading performance management interventions where required by FET

- Supporting FET in forecast review, sign-off, and landing key messages with SL

Knowledge and skills - desired:

- General

- Commercial acumen

- Resilience (ability to cope with time pressure and challenges)

- High degree of flexibility and ability to quickly understand new topics

- Ability to work collaboratively with other key stakeholders

- Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills

- Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner

- Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail

- Creative and innovative

- Qualified accountant or equivalent (or studying towards a professional accounting qualification

- Experience in a business-facing Finance role

- Decision support / business case modelling in a complex environment

- Working in a matrix reporting environment

- Excellent inter-personal, communication and influencing skills

- Experience of working in multi-national teams and/or a virtual team environment

- Business partnering skills from global or regional category, customer, supply chain environment

- The role also requires strong supplier facing skills and may have interaction with external service providers