AVP - Business Finance

- Business finance process is responsible for collation, review and support for MI and analysis. Responsibility includes analysis & review of MI collected to ensure high quality financial reporting, publishing monthly MI packs, handling MI related queries, and Interim analysis reports for management review periodically. To liaise with Business Partners Globally on developing MI (analyses and reports) within the timelines agreed and further manage a team of analysts.

- Lead a team that offers decision support service to the Business CFO team (Business Partners) by preparing analyses and reports that benefit the Business.

- Oversee the support offered on planning (AOP) and forecasting.

- Provide thought leadership and manage ad-hoc requests quickly and independently and also be able to prioritize these requests, ensuring these are agreed with the line manager and stake partner.

- Continuous review of processes with the objective of improving the service delivery timeframes and identify areas to create efficiency.

- Lead, coordinate and support BF transformation, quality and re-engineering initiatives leading to positive business outcomes, operational efficiency and higher productivity.

- Escalate and resolve key customer issues in an effective and proactive way to ensure timely resolution

- Ensure operational efficiency and higher productivity utilizing, where possible, Six Sigma Lean process improvement methodologies

- Effectively influence and communicate within and outside the immediate team to drive business priorities/results; good teamwork skills are vital as the role involves working in collaboration with other teams.

- Create an environment within the team which fosters free sharing of knowledge & ideas

- Ensure service delivery per PLA (timeliness, accuracy and quality) but also be empathetic to business requirements.

- Plan, lead, adapt and implement change in accordance with wider firm initiatives.

- To continually assess and mitigate the operational risks inherent in the processes, taking account of changing operating procedures, staff movements, Business/ Management restructures, legal and regulatory requirements and the impact of new technology.

- Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by Business Partners.

- Adherence to Group policies, audit, controls, and compliance requirements including but not limited to Declaration of secrecy, data protection act, health, safety and security, clear desk policy.