Senior FP&A Analyst Operations

Main duties and responsibilities

• Partner with Accounting to understand Actual performance and manage closing process.
• Monthly Actuals analysis and reporting of performance to the SVP Operations and Country MDs, including variance analyses versus Budget and Prior Year.
• Manage and maintain the budgeting process for the Operations function in collaboration with the FP&A team; this includes maintain and further develop the various Budget modelling tools.
• Business partnering with SVP Operations and team to provide them with relevant financial information in a timely manner to support the decision making of which (list not exhaustive):
• Run various analyses of processing costs, refunding mistakes and payments;
• Analyse unsuccessful payments performance and recommend course of action;
• Understand current processes and flows within Operations to be able to challenge and recommend improvements.
• Business partnering with the Country Managing Directors to provide them with relevant financial and operational drivers to support them in the decision-making process:
• Analyse and monitor refund costs performance across markets and refund points;
• Understand various refunding services from operational and financial perspective to be able to identify financial opportunities through mix management;
• Analyse and understand performance from ancillary revenues (Forex, Cash Fee) linked with refunding operations.
• Support the VP Financial Planning and Analysis and CFO on a number of initiatives linked with Operations

Competencies

• Strong Excel modelling skills with the ability to handle data in an efficient way, able to identify key business performance drivers and model them via KPIs.
• Good understanding of accounting principles and the dynamics between P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets as well as having an “helicopter view”.
• Experience in reporting development and knowledge of Hyperion, Smartview, ESSBase would be a plus.
• Ability to code in VBA and model in Power Query/Power Pivot/DAX would be a plus.
• Fluent in spoken and written English is a pre-requisite.
• Business acumen, with experience in dealing with commercial matters and ability to bring appropriate business responses which generate shareholder value.
• Self-motivation with a “can-do” and problem-solving attitude.
• Able to build and maintain relationships and influence at every level.
• Good communication and presentation skills in multinational and multicultural environment.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team.
• Strong prioritisation skills to organise at time-intense workloads and ability to multitask.

You will have the opportunity to develop your career in an international environment and be part of a new project.