Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Location: Peterborough UK (Hybrid)
Your role:
This role is part of the Europe Retail Finance team, supporting the Head of FP&A in elevating business partnering activities across the region. You will be a key interface between finance and the business, driving improved forecasting, insights, and decision-making support. This is a hands-on role requiring strong analytical capability, stakeholder management and commercial acumen,
Key Responsibilities:
* Oversee BAU business partnering activities across the region, including month end close, flash reporting and geo consolidation, for reporting to the Head of FP&A.
* Support strategic initiatives such as new market entry, commercial partnerships and business development opportunities through insightful financial analysis.
* Collaborate with Finance Business Partners to ensure timely and accurate delivery of quarterly forecasts & budgets
* Drive standardisation of reporting to improve consistency, transparency & efficiency
* Assist in the preparation of financial reporting packs and presentations for the Board and Group Finance stakeholders
* Work with local inventory teams to enhance processes & controls related to liquidity and stock management to ensure the business has access to accurate & detailed MI to efficiently manage working capital
* Mentor and coach Finance Business Partners to enhance their effectiveness and business impact through improved analysis and commercial insight.
* Monitor and communicate periodic performance, trends, profitability and opportunities.
* Drive monthly performance reviews to monitor and challenge the business, ensuring financials are accurate, insightful and drive decision making.
* Act as deputy for the Head of FP&A, stepping in as needed for meetings, approvals and stakeholder engagement.
Key Skills and Experience should include:
* Qualified accountant with previous FP&A/Business Partnering experience
* Strong grasp of integrated financial modelling, including understanding of all three financial statements and their interdependencies.
* Proven ability to communicate complex financial data to both finance and non-finance stakeholders
* Strong analytical and modelling skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Advanced Excel skills
* Experience in managing and balancing the demands of different stakeholders
* Experience working in fast paced environments with tight deadlines
* Experienced in handling large data sets and streamlining reporting processes
* Confident in providing constructive challenge to business assumptions and decisions.
* Ability to develop effective relationships across functional areas
Why Travelex?
To remain the world’s leading foreign exchange specialist, we are focused on making our customers’ lives simpler, more engaging and hassle free while they travel or move money abroad. We promise to give them the freedom and peace of mind to explore the world, their way – enabling them to travel confidently because they know they have us to lean on.
Customer centricity and digital are at the heart of our business strategy. Our commitment to innovation has never been greater, with the development of a number of digital-first, greenfield products and services. And with the Travelex's resources, deep industry experience and leading brand we are inventing the future of FX, cross-border e-commerce and international payments.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.