Policy Expert – FP&A Manager - Analysis
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About the Finance team:
We are looking for a high calibre Analysis Manager to join our FP&A team. This role is a crucial part of the wider finance team – working to analyse, understand and improve our financial performance.
You will be working within the finance team of an exciting and high-growth business that is looking to support the next phase of growth following new private equity investment. In this role you will own the analysis of our performance – supporting the requirements of the Group Executive team, finance business partners and wider stakeholders across the business.
You will spend your time collecting, analysing, modelling, interpreting, forecasting and reporting on information for business performance, planning, and management purposes. You will work closely with teams from across the business to help them understand their financial performance and help develop forecasts for future performance. You will support on producing decision-making information, helping business leaders understand the financial implications of strategies and decisions.
Your day to day:
- Understanding and analysing our performance against budget and forecasts
- Ownership of finance MI including re-designing existing MI, automating processes and driving efficiencies
- Producing the source of truth for business performance and key performance indicators
- Defining and developing performance metrics reporting, working with business partners to refine business requirements to outputs that are accurate and insightful
- Developing a repository of historic data to enable accurate trend and forecasting capability, and robust investor event due diligence
- Developing benchmarking capability
- Ownership of FP&A systems – development, maintenance and continuous improvement of planning and forecasting software
- Development and improvement of analytics and processes, automating processes and controls
- Building and improving the predictive capability of the FP&A team
- Providing ad-hoc analysis for senior leaders, Board members and other internal and external stakeholders
Who are you:
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA accounting qualification
- Very strong financial analysis and accounting skills
- Experience either within an FP&A or analyst role
- Strong commercial acumen
- Strong analytical thinking and problem solving
- A desire to innovate and introduce new ideas that will benefit the business
- Knowledge and experience in working with large data sets
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure
- Fluent and comfortable working with and interrogating ERP/ERM systems (e.g. SAP, Sage, Anaplan, Hyperion, TM1)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
In addition, it would be great if you had:
- Knowledge or experience of insurance
- Experience of larger organisations that are likely to have mature analysis and FP&A functions
Benefits:
📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode.
💸 Generous Pension contribution scheme
🏥 Private medical & Dental cover
📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)
😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity
🚉 Travel season ticket loan
🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge
🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme
What We Stand for and Next Steps “We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment”
At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support.
We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements.
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