* Acting as a strategic partner to business leads, analysing and translating financial data and information into actionable recommendations, contributing to commercial, operation and financial objectives and decisions
* Lead financial sections of renegotiations of Revenue Share Agreements and related contracts
* Deliver new alliance partnerships
* Work proactively with FP&A & Finance Transformation to drive out non-value add activity.
* TU engagement: engaging and working with TU (inc. pay deals)
* Budgeting & Forecasting
* Deliver insightful financial input at the Directorate/Function level.
* Review the consolidation of the business inputs into the latest forecast/budget to ensure alignment with wider financial & business KPIs/strategy.
* Support scenario planning and strategic budgeting processes.
* Support the business to deliver ‘task-free’ forecast/budgets.
* Proactively identify & mitigate risks & deliver opportunities against financial plans.
* Identify & evaluate cost-saving opportunities.
* Partner with business teams to implement cost control initiatives. (including People team on employee related initiatives)
* Support FP&A in translating reports on cost performance against targets into clear narrative for the business & addressable actions where needed.
* Engage the business areas on financial KPI performance (provided by central FP&A) and work them to remedy under-performing areas.
* Ensure compliance to Internal controls framework.
* CapExPlanning
* Develop and review business cases for capital expenditure at the Directorate/Function level.
* Ensure alignment of CapExproposals with strategic priorities and ROI expectations.
* Monitor CapExperformance and post-investment reviews.
* Support the optimisation of procurement / vendor management strategies within the business to build better supplier relationships & deliver efficiencies.
* Act as pivotal role in the Procurement/Finance/Business Trio to support the identification of new supplier initiatives & associated tracking.
* Support contract negotiations and supplier performance evaluations.
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