Job Description
Do you possess strong in-house experience in an FP&A role?
Do you have strong communication skills and the ability to present clear financial and non-financial information at a senior level?
Are you an experienced Power BI user?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team and be a key member of the Controlling team. Your role entails ensuring the prompt and precise completion of management and board reporting as well as financial planning. The FP&A – Assistant Manager should demonstrate strong business partnering skills and a robust comprehension of budgeting, forecasting, and board-level management reporting.
You will directly report to the Director, Technical Accounting and Reporting in the Luxembourg office and to the Reporting and Head of Controlling in the London office.
Your Responsibilities:
Management Reporting
- Draft monthly and quarterly management operating reports (MORs & QORs), encompassing profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, and cash flow.
- Develop and uphold core Microsoft PowerBI reports in collaboration with the IT & Controlling team to discern results, trends, and financial forecasts, elucidating variances to budget/forecast.
- Proactively pinpoint areas for enhancement in management reporting, aiming to broaden the scope and depth of internal reporting for the benefit of the pertinent decision-maker.
Financial Planning
- Assume complete responsibility for proactively overseeing the entire financial budget and quarterly forecast cycle, including activities such as budget holder meetings and stakeholder management.
- Formulate annual budget and quarterly forecast board packs utilizing Vena and PowerPoint.
- Generate ad-hoc reports and sustain all Vena reports.
- Manage the analysis of revenue, capital expenditures, maintenance, and operating expenses in the budget & forecast against actuals, providing variance commentary.
Business Partnering
- Keep key stakeholders updated through regular communication.
- Foster partnerships with relevant stakeholders.
- Lead and implement operational changes.
- Analyse and interpret data to derive valuable insights for decision-making and identify business risks.
- Enhance the impact of financial reporting on business performance.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of working experience in a similar position with a strong Financial Planning and Analysis background in an in-house position.
- Holding or is nearing completion of an accounting designation (ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) is preferred.
- Fluent in both written and oral English. Additional languages is a plus.
- Knowledge and experience of working within an IFRS environment.
- Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and the capability to independently drive solutions for projects.
- Functions as a team player, effectively collaborating as a business partner with teams spanning multiple geographies in a dynamic multicultural, multinational setting.
- Possesses strong analytical skills, able to collect data, analyze and interpret results, and effectively communicate findings to various stakeholders, including those outside the finance domain.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Proficient in using PowerPoint and PowerBI for the preparation of top management presentations.
- Exhibits a curious mindset, consistently seeking opportunities for process improvements.
Could this be the right opportunity for you? Please do not hesitate to send your CV to Madeleine Mahoux at madeleine.mahoux@andersonwise.com to be considered for this recruitment process. Your application will be treated with the utmost discretion.
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