Interim Transformation Finance Business Partner

Fastmarkets Commercial Finance is a dynamic team supporting the business in developing and delivering our strategy through insights, business partnering, commercial acumen, and financial & commercial modelling and support. Highly valued by the business we are working hard to transform the finance function and ways of working in order to step up the value we deliver.

We are looking for a 12 month FTC to perm to innovate and transform the Finance to Business relationship and processes within Operations, as well as supporting an ambitious company wide transformation plan.

You will need to be able to think on your feet and find creative solutions to data and process issues where there is not always an existing solution. You will need to be able to put in place KPIs and metrics for the business, build robust business cases and you will be an expert in modelling, forecasting budgeting and stakeholder management. You will be comfortable with both revenue and overheads, and ideally understand a subscriptions business.

The right candidate will be comfortable dealing with C-Suite level individuals, and able to constructively challenge to ensure we are on track. You will be passionate about accurate detail and able to easily manipulate data in manual processes, whilst also exploring every opportunity for best practice and automation through our FP&A software (Anaplan) to future proof ways of working. You will be highly visual in your presenting style, able to tell a story from facts and data and keen to explore new visualisations or metrics to summarise your points clearly.

You will need brilliant excel skills, great presentation skills and fantastic people and influencing skills to work as a valued member of the business as well as finance. The right candidate will be a highly commercial team player skilled in working in a fast paced environment and comfortable with working through transformational change.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Act as Finance Business Partner to the transformation team to provide insights and analysis
• Work with the transformation team and Head of FP&A to identify areas for business improvement and increased profitability
• Lead budget and forecast processes and overlays for transformation
• Work with the business to embed ways of working in Anaplan, as well as working on continual improvement and evolution of our processes and dashboards
• Work with the Data team to produce dashboards and metrics in Salesforce / Qlik / Anaplan as required to answer business needs
• Produce and present decks as required, including effective graphics, charts and visualisations
• Produce variance analysis, understanding and commentary
• Business partner key stakeholders across the overhead functions
• Challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders to improve business performance while considering financial implications
• Challenge of costs, looking for and tracking synergies, efficiencies and identifying any gaps
• Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes - - ability to distil complex technical information into clear simple messages
• Assess business performance and strive for a deeper understanding of business levers and underlying drivers
• Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives and help drive financial decisions
• Analyse trends in key performance indicators highlighting commercial opportunities and risks
• Respond to ad-hoc requests according to business needs