Employment Type: 6 Month Contract - Has Scope to Extend to a Long Term Position
Location: London
Salary Guide: £300 - £400 per Day Depending on Level of Experience
REF: MA54064
Description
Our client, a global industry leader is seeking an FP&A Analyst to join their team to contribute to annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-term financial planning, providing insight that supports informed decision-making across the business.
The successful individual will likely have a Big 4 Transactional Services background and will play a key role in supporting Group and site-level financial performance through high-quality budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial analysis.
The role also involves producing clear, accurate management information, board-ready materials, and ad hoc financial models to support strategic and operational objectives globally.
Initially for a period of 6 months, the role has scope to extend to a long term position.
Responsibilities
* Act as the primary FP&A contact for assigned sites, supporting the preparation, review, and challenge of budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans.
* Analyse site budget submissions, critically assessing assumptions to ensure alignment with Group FP&A guidelines and strategic objectives.
* Identify financial risks, opportunities, and potential value uplift across budgets, forecasts, and long-term projections.
* Review monthly actuals and rolling forecasts, assessing variances and their longer-term financial impact.
* Support the coordination of the Group business planning cycle, including annual updates to multi-year financial models.
* Work closely with site Financial Controllers throughout the planning cycle, providing guidance, challenge, and technical support.
* Build and maintain robust planning models, ensuring accurate roll-up to Group consolidation, including finance charges, tax assumptions, and RCF calculations.
* Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and ad-hoc forecasts to support strategic and operational decision-making.
* Produce clear, insightful analysis and KPIs to highlight trends, risks, and opportunities across Group and site performance.
* Prepare high-quality management information and board-ready reporting for assigned sites and cost centres.
* Support the month-end close process by reviewing performance, validating assumptions, and contributing to management accounting outputs.
* Perform timely ad-hoc analysis to support investment decisions, cost optimisation initiatives, and operational priorities.
* Partner with finance stakeholders to identify, scope, and deliver enhancements to the Yardi ERP system and FP&A planning tools.
* Design, build, test, and implement new and improved financial models to support evolving business needs.
Skills
* A background in Transactional Services, ideally within Big 4.
* Strong experience supporting site-level and Group budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning cycles.
* Advanced analytical skills with the ability to build and maintain robust financial models and scenario analyses.
* Experience working with FP&A planning tools (e.g. BOARD) and ERP systems (e.g. Yardi), supporting model build, enhancement, and ongoing optimisation.
* Strong Excel and financial modelling capability, with a structured and disciplined approach to data management.
* Comfortable working within consolidated Group models, including finance charges, tax assumptions, and liquidity metrics.
* Effective communicator, able to work confidently with site finance teams, Financial Controllers, and Group stakeholders.
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