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Our client, a global industry leader is seeking an FP&A Analyst to join their team to contribute to annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-term financial planning, providing insight that supports informed decision-making across the business.
Description
The successful individual will likely have a Big 4 Transactional Services background and will play a key role in supporting Group and site-level financial performance through high-quality budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial analysis.
The role also involves producing clear, accurate management information, board-ready materials, and ad hoc financial models to support strategic and operational objectives globally.
Initially for a period of 6 months, the role has scope to extend to a long term position.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities for this Interim FP&A Analyst role will include, but are not limited to:
- Act as the primary FP&A contact for assigned sites, supporting the preparation, review, and challenge of budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans.
- Analyse site budget submissions, critically assessing assumptions to ensure alignment with Group FP&A guidelines and strategic objectives.
- Identify financial risks, opportunities, and potential value uplift across budgets, forecasts, and long-term projections.
- Review monthly actuals and rolling forecasts, assessing variances and their longer-term financial impact.
- Support the coordination of the Group business planning cycle, including annual updates to multi-year financial models.
- Work closely with site Financial Controllers throughout the planning cycle, providing guidance, challenge, and technical support.
- Build and maintain robust planning models, ensuring accurate roll-up to Group consolidation, including finance charges, tax assumptions, and RCF calculations.
- Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and ad-hoc forecasts to support strategic and operational decision-making.
- Produce clear, insightful analysis and KPIs to highlight trends, risks, and opportunities across Group and site performance.
- Prepare high-quality management information and board-ready reporting for assigned sites and cost centres.
- Support the month-end close process by reviewing performance, validating assumptions, and contributing to management accounting outputs.
- Perform timely ad-hoc analysis to support investment decisions, cost optimisation initiatives, and operational priorities.
- Partner with finance stakeholders to identify, scope, and deliver enhancements to the Yardi ERP system and FP&A planning tools.
- Design, build, test, and implement new and improved financial models to support evolving business needs.
Skills
The skills and experience required for this Interim FP&A Analyst role include, but are not limited to:
- A background in Transactional Services, ideally within Big 4.
- Strong experience supporting site-level and Group budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning cycles.
- Advanced analytical skills with the ability to build and maintain robust financial models and scenario analyses.
- Experience working with FP&A planning tools (e.g. BOARD) and ERP systems (e.g. Yardi), supporting model build, enhancement, and ongoing optimisation.
- Strong Excel and financial modelling capability, with a structured and disciplined approach to data management.
- Comfortable working within consolidated Group models, including finance charges, tax assumptions, and liquidity metrics.
- Effective communicator, able to work confidently with site finance teams, Financial Controllers, and Group stakeholders.
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Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, we will only be able to respond to those candidates whose experience matches the requirements of our client. We are sorry, but if you have not heard from us within the next ten days, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Walker Hamill has been a specialist finance and strategy recruiter for approaching 40 years. We have an extensive client group, including major multinational listed organisations, private equity backed businesses and privately owned companies. We recruit across all sectors and have particularly strong client relationships in technology, media, retail, pharma/biotech, property/real estate, leisure and business services. Headquartered in London, we have additional offices in continental Europe.