Description
My client, a leading global bank, is looking for a senior Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to join their growing Asset Management arm. The position aims is to provide critical business insight into financial performance as well as financial statistics.
Responsibilities
- Coordination and review of detailed and timely Annual Operating Plans for UK entities and delivery of up to date forecasts.
- Provides financial analysis to support new product launches or new business initiatives.
- Preparation of management reporting of UK performance
- Interpretation of performance indicators and management of reporting of actual performance
- Support for new product launches and business initiatives
- Work with the business and the global finance to produce robust annual operating plans
- Production of timely and robust forecasts
- Delivery of MI at cost centre level and drive tight cost control across the UK entities
Requirements
- Relevant product knowledge including knowledge of asset management products
- Experience working in relevant market/context, ie asset management
- Role relevant qualifications, ie Qualified accountant CIMA, ACCA, ACA
- Past working experience in a relevant role, ie finance business partner
- Past working experience on relevant systems, ie TM1 is desirable but not essential
- Proven experience of leading the delivery of an excellent customer service and proactively look for innovative ways to improve the service delivered to customers
- Contributed productively to team objectives, sometimes supporting and sometimes leading activities to achieve shared goals
- Experience of making timely and rational decisions, based on relevant information and experience
- A broad understanding of financial budgets/statements/models, with experience of analysing data effectively for planning, forecasting and reporting