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Finance Manager
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
London, , United Kingdom
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Description
At Company, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Summary of role:
Act as part of Business Partnering team to provide financial support to PQS and UK Operations, specifically partnering with PQS and UK Operations business area directors to drive planning and overall performance
Responsible for revenues of approx. £30m and a cost base of approx. £150m including both opex and capex.
Main activities/responsibilities:
Support Finance Director, PQS & UK Ops as a business partner and advisor to the PQS and UK Operations team and specifically to PQS and UK Operations business area directors, advising on financial matters and ensuring delivery of business and operational objectives
Support Finance Director, PQS & UK Opsin providing insight and analysis to the business to aid forward looking decision making
Oversight of actual monthly results and KPIs and informed and insightful commentary thereon.
Highlight key risks and opportunities within functions and providing insights
Support decisions on project and portfolio investments, ensuring they are measured against financial targets
Identify and address operational improvement and cost opportunities. Contribute and support to Finance transformation initiatives as required.
Develop & prepare financial business cases supporting PQS and UK Operations with support from PFS. Support decisions on pipeline investments, ensuring they are measured against financial targets
Work collaboratively with PFS to deliver key reporting, planning and forecasting processes providing accurate and timely future facing data on which to base decisions
Understand the businesses regulatory and audit requirements and ensure they are adhered to
Consistent and extensive collaboration within Finance and across Company, including colleagues in Geographies, Product groups, Enabling Functions, Country hub operations and Centres of excellence organised at the Company level
Expected Results:
Effective partnering and strong communication between PQS and UK Operations leadership teams and Finance teams
Strong performance against KPIs and targets
Accurate and timely delivery of investment and business cases
Effective involvement of PFS in all relevant processes
Successful execution of the Enabling Program
Operating model and new ways of working implemented across Finance
Operational improvements and cost opportunities identified and realised
Strong collaboration with Product groups, Geographies, Enabling Functions, Group Control, Finance Centres of Excellence and with embedded Finance teams across Company
Improved forecasting and planning efficiency and accuracy
Leverage of analytics tools to focus organisation on value-added activities
Qualifications and experience required:
Qualified with demonstrable experience in management accounting role
Fluent English speaker
Experience working in a multi-national matrix organization.
Strong understanding of materiality and ability to prioritize across competing agendas
Ability to conduct investment analysis and capital asset evaluation.
Ability to identify business risks and implementation of tactics to mitigate
Understanding of financial control, business performance management and process optimization and experience of working in more than one of these areas.
An understanding of putting internal financial results into an external market context.
Awareness of multiple business models and experience of working with more than one.
Understanding of finance specialist areas: tax, treasury, M&A, compliance, corporate governance and ability to utilise proper judgement to involve them as necessary.
Participation in international projects, may be short or long term (preferred but not required)
Required Skills:
Communication: strong verbal and written skills within finance, across the organisation and with external parties.
Influence: presence and confidence to interact with senior management. Ability to leverage influence across teams and cultures.
Emotional Intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, social skill) and the ability to apply it to work successfully in a matrix environment.
Collaboration: with other internal teams and third party providers.
Decision Making: understanding materiality, complex and uncertain situation, prioritization
Performance focused: self & others
Time Management: ability to work under pressure and to tight timelines, producing a high standard of work with attention to detail
Analytics focused: organising information and manipulates data to identify/explain trends, problems and mitigating actions
Driving change: identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation