Senior Financial Analyst (6 month FTC)

This fixedterm Senior Financial Analyst role has been created to provide dedicated analytical reporting and decisionsupport to a strategic Boardsponsored transformation program focused on the evolution of Fastmarkets operating model and delivery of sustainable financial outcomes.

The role is deliveryfocused and timebound with accountability for the endtoend consolidation analysis and reporting of both program outcomes and program delivery costs. The Senior Financial Analyst will provide senior leadership and the Board with clear decisionuseful insight into progress versus the original approved plan including transparent articulation of delivery risks dependencies and net financial impact and will shape recommendations to optimise outcomes as the program evolves.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Financial Analysis & Reporting

• Own the monthly Project reporting cycle setting standards for inputs assumptions and timelines and providing a consolidated view of initiative status delivery progress risks and expected financial outcomes.
• Track and report financial benefits in line with approved assumptions challenging initiative owners on realism phasing dependencies and evidence.
• Track and report program delivery costs including peoplerelated changes organisational transition activity systems professional fees and other delivery costs ensuring clear governance and audit trail.

• Deliver quarterly deepdive analysis for senior leadership and Board review covering performance versus plan runrate and inyear impact net benefit key drivers of variance and scenario/sensitivity analysis to support decisions.
• Produce clear executivelevel narratives and recommendations focused on insight risks tradeoffs and actions rather than raw data.
• Lead improvements to ways of working and controls to strengthen the dataflow robustness between HR and Finance systems improving accuracy repeatability and auditability.

Program Cost Tracking & Technical Accounting

• Maintain appropriatelevel detail for program cost tracking to support governance accounting and audit requirements.
• Partner with Financial Control to assess and apply appropriate technical accounting treatment (e.g. capitalisation expensing exceptional or nonrecurring items and programrelated provisions where applicable) ensuring positions are wellevidenced and documented.
• Partner with HR Business Partners on peoplerelated initiatives
• Ensure consistency between program reporting management reporting and statutory accounting with clear audit trails and supporting documentation.

Data Governance & Delivery Oversight

• Act as the central coordination point for data collation and consolidation across Project workstreams.
• Apply consistent definitions assumptions and methodologies and challenge inputs for accuracy completeness and realism.
• Track delivery risks dependencies and initiatives assessed as high risk or unlikely to deliver ensuring transparent escalation.
• Support scenario and sensitivity analysis and proactively identify opportunities to optimise program outcomes as delivery progresses.

Systems Tools & Process Integration

• Use HiBob to track headcountrelated changes costs and impacts linked to the program.
• Leverage Anaplan for forecasting and tracking outcomes and costs versus plan including scenario modelling where required.
• Support the development of sustainable links between people data and the quarterly forecasting process.
• Use Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and Word to deliver highquality analysis and senior stakeholder materials

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with Finance Business Partners to ensure alignment with wider forecasting and performance management.
• Partner with HR Business Partners on peoplerelated initiatives
• Engage with Financial Control initiative owners and senior stakeholders to provide constructive evidencebased challenge and insight facilitating tradeoff discussions and driving actions to close gaps versus plan.
• Operate as a trusted analytical partner to the Project leadership team throughout the contract period
• The role operates as part of the wider FP&A and Commercial Finance function ensuring program reporting is fully aligned with core forecasting performance management and Board reporting processes.

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

• Interim Commercial Finance Director and Commercial Finance team
• Finance Business Partners
• Human Resources Business Partners
• Financial Control and technical accounting leadership
• Head of Change overall project manager
• Project Sponsors and Project leads
• Senior Leadership Team and Executive Stakeholders

Qualifications :

We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded curious resilient solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality then read on.

KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Essential

• Strong financial analysis modelling and reporting experience gained within an FP&A or commercial finance role supporting senior stakeholders in a complex or fastchanging environment.
• Strong capability with an FP&A tool and forecasting processes including maintaining models improving assumptions and producing forwardlooking forecasts under ambiguity.
• Proven ability to translate complex analysis into clear insight and actionoriented recommendations producing seniorlevel reporting to tight timelines.
• Experience working with complex datasets and partnering with Financial Control on technical accounting considerations.
• Advanced Excel skills (financial modelling scenario/sensitivity analysis) and strong PowerPoint capability; able to operate independently prioritise effectively and deliver against clearly defined objectives.
• Deliveryfocused structured and pragmatic; comfortable in fastpaced program environments;
• Clear communicator able to adapt messaging for senior and Boardlevel audiences; collaborative and outcomesoriented.

Desirable

• Qualified or partqualified accountant (CIMA ACCA ACA) or equivalent experience in FP&A/commercial finance at Senior Analyst level.
• Experience with Anaplan and/or HR systems such as HiBob.
• Previous exposure to timebound program or transformation roles.
• Experience within media information services or subscriptionbased businesses.

KEY DELIVERABLES (INDICATIVE)

Month 1:  Establish consolidated benefits and cost tracking align data sources and deliver the first monthly reporting pack.

Months 23:  Embed the monthly reporting cadence deliver the first Boardlevel deepdive and highlight key risks variances and opportunities.

Months 45: Refine scenario and net benefit analysis strengthen integration between people data and forecasting and support leadership decisionmaking.

Month 6: - Deliver final program reporting ensure clear audit trails and support knowledge transfer of sustainable reporting processes.

If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information :

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Youve read a little about us now its over to you!

If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.

Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time