Job Description

Job Description Key responsibilities: Reviews and provides advice on strategic financial plans in partnership with business leaders • Partners to provide insight and challenge through financial analysis to enable business partners to make key decisions and achieve targets • Supports client and vendor negotiations by providing analytical insight and ensuring optimal balance of pricing, early payment discounts, rebates and volume commitments (where applicable) • Analyses consolidated budgets and forecasts, and provides interpretation, insight and guidance • Identifies and drives operational improvement through analysis of financial plans, management information and performance • Works with business leaders to understand short, medium and long-term resource requirements and impact on forecasts and budgets • Supports analysis of client profitability and identifies and supports initiatives to improve profitability/margin • Supports the Operational Finance Director, Financial Controller and / or Market FD, as necessary with high quality and insightful analysis as requested from time to time and works with them to deliver impact with the business • Supports the implementation of best practice financial planning techniques in line with business needs and supports initiatives to improve the quality and consistency of business and finance data