A Senior FP&A Analyst is sought by one of the UK's leading investment vehicles who have committed well over £5bn in new investments since 2019. With over 150 individual debt and equity backed investments across sectors including infrastructure, environmental, digital, agriculture and emerging markets located all over the world, their remit is to achieve a financial return that can be reinvested to generate a greater impact.
The post of Senior FP&A Analyst a newly created role that has been driven by growth. You will assist the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) with reporting of operating expenses, budgeting, forecasting and portfolio analysis to senior management, the board and to the Shareholder.
Your will play a pivotal role in the development and tracking of the appropriate markers and key performance indicators for the business and for the support functions throughout the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the preparation of the monthly operating costs review including headcount reporting.
- Play an active role in maintaining FP&A's relationships with business managers, senior management, and other stakeholders throughout the business, engaging in regular dialogue on the matters related to expense reporting versus budget by cost centre.
- Share responsibilities related to monitoring the FP&A shared inbox for incoming queries and answer questions from the business.
- Ad-hoc requests for cost analysis.
- Prepare monthly operating expense reports by cost centre, ensuring costs are allocated to the correct expense accounts, projects and business units.
- Monitor the actual spend by cost type and by cost centre versus budget.
- Conduct regular and thorough variance analysis of actuals to budget and write meaningful commentaries.
- Undertake selected responsibilities in relation to preparation of the monthly forecasting.
- Contribute to the preparation of the annual budget.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of a fully absorbed profit and loss management reporting by business group.
- Provide detailed financial analysis when required.
- Assist with the build-out of bespoke monthly reporting for Executive Committee Heads.
- Assist with preparing the quarterly CEO & management reports.
- Prepare portfolio analytics and reporting.
- Produce materials for internal reviews, Markets Committee, Executive Committee, or Board, as required.
The candidate
- Qualified accountant with suitable FP&A experience, preferably from a large organisation and, ideally, financials services, either Investment Management or PE.
- Strong numerical, analytics and data management skills.
- Capable of working with large data sets and distilling conclusions clearly and succinctly.
- Advanced Excel
- Good working knowledge of PowerPoint and experience of preparing presentations.
- Effective communications skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels across the organisation.
- A working knowledge of Power BI would be an advantage.
- Ability to work independently to tackle and solve complex issues.
- Candidates should be strongly motivated by BII's development mission and ideally demonstrate some commitment to development or social goals through previous executive or non-executive activity.
- The ideal candidate is enthused by the complexity and ambiguity of the markets and products BII operate with and within and should be smart, fun, collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial, solution-oriented, open-minded and effective, flexible in nature as the firm continues to grow and evolve.
- Must be highly driven by BII's development mandate.