Finance Business Partner With Financial Modelling

Summary

The Purpose of the Role

• Strategic financial modelling across the Mails & PUDO (3rd party Pick Up Drop Off – Click & Collect and Returns) businesses, and
• Development and delivery if finance business partnering to the PUDO business.

Principal Accountabilities

• Source and populate Mails & PUDO strategy financial models with assumptions and variables; provide scenario analysis, with interpretation and insight, to support complex decision making
• Provide challenge to Mails & PUDO teams and business stakeholders to ensure the accuracy of pricing, market assumptions and variables.
• Provide finance expertise when classifying costs and benefits, ensuring their appropriate accounting treatment.
• Provide modelling support for business cases and investment decisions – Review the business cases with product and program leads and challenge assumptions and ensure compliance with governance
• Finance Business Partner – PUDO
• Evaluate and challenge PUDO product team on monthly performance vs budget/forecast
• Partner with PUDO team to provide commercial support and challenge as business grows
• Review, challenge and understand remuneration payable to postmasters for sales made to drive accurate forecasting
• Support PUDO team to generate accurate trading and financial reporting for new business areas
• Review and challenge specific areas of overheads cost base, articulating variances and recommending remedial action for areas of overspend
• Produce insightful month end variance analysis to inform upwards reporting to the Functional leadership team and remote Financial Control team
• Maintain a register of income/cost Risks & Opportunities, highlight through the appropriate channels and ensure alignment in quarterly forecasts
• Lead budgeting and forecasting process for PUDO to deliver a robust plan within the guidelines and timetable established by the Financial Control team
• Build an understanding of Product P&Ls, articulating the results to key stakeholders in the functional teams
• Provide expert advice and an independent view to the Finance Leadership Team, CFO and functional lead team
• Participate in cross Finance initiatives and work streams to include support for any audit work carried out

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• Computer literacy / numeracy with strong Word and PowerPoint skills and advanced excel skills

• Ability to design and build financial models for complex initiatives.
• Experience in a ‘commercial’ finance environment operating at a senior level across multiple products and services
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to articulate the story behind the numbers
• Knowledge of business case and investment appraisal processes
• Experience of detailed pricing modelling is a plus

• Broad range of accountancy skills – fully qualified accountant with CCAB recognised qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA and ACCA) and minimum of 5 years post qualification experience, or consultants with extensive financial modelling experience.

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to effectively summarize and interpret data to senior non-finance business leaders
• Commercial acumen
• Managing complexity, ambiguity and change
• Influencing senior stakeholders and challenging financial decision making
• Collaboration and teamwork to drive reporting and generate results
• Good communication and skills, particularly the ability to communicate complex financial issues simply to non-finance people
• Computer literacy/numeracy with strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills
• Good understanding of finance systems (particularly SAP, BI, Anaplan)

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