FP&A Operations Business Partner

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

The FP&A Operations Business Partner will be the senior business and financial operations leader for D&E. This hands-on role will partner with D&E leadership and Ankura Business Services functions to translate strategy into measurable financial and operating performance strengthen planning and forecasting improve management insight and establish consistent operating rhythms across a complex global business.

This position is intentionally centered on FP&A performance management and business operations. The successful candidate will bring the financial fluency to challenge assumptions and interpret business results together with the operating judgment to turn analysis into decisions accountability and sustained execution.

• Own and continuously improve the D&E annual business planning budgeting quarterly forecasting and long-range planning processes in partnership with Business Group leadership and central Finance.

• Develop integrated financial and operating models that connect revenue pipeline backlog pricing utilization headcount compensation operating expense and cash performance.

• Lead monthly and quarterly business performance reviews including actual versus budget and forecast analysis trend identification risk and opportunity assessment and clear explanations of material variances.

• Produce concise decision-oriented reporting packages and presentations for D&E and firm leadership with a consistent view of performance across practices and regions.

• Monitor the economic health of the business through relevant measures such as revenue margin EBITDA utilization realization and leakage engagement profitability accounts receivable DSO expenses and operating costs.

• Build scenarios and sensitivity analyses to support growth investments workforce choices pricing decisions restructuring or sunsetting activities and other strategic trade-offs.

• Establish a clear management cadence for forecasting financial reviews workforce planning commercial reviews and follow-through on agreed actions.

• Translate Business Group priorities into practical operating plans milestones owners and measurable outcomes; surface dependencies and execution risks early.

• Standardize core operating processes and management information across D&E while allowing for appropriate regional and practice-level differences.

• Partner with Accounting and Finance on close revenue review accruals accounts payable and receivable reconciliations and alignment of actual results with forecast assumptions.

• Drive continuous improvement in reporting data quality controls workflow design and technology-enabled analysis.

• Connect market client pipeline backlog and sales activity to forward-looking revenue and capacity plans.

• Partner with leaders on pricing strategy margin modeling commercial terms new business reviews and approval discipline with attention to profitability and risk.

• Evaluate performance by client matter offering practice and region to identify where D&E should invest improve scale or change course.

• Support business cases for new offerings geographic expansion alliances acquisitions and other organic or inorganic growth opportunities including financial modeling and post-decision tracking.

• Promote pipeline hygiene and improve visibility into conversion win rates revenue timing and delivery implications.

• Integrate headcount hiring attrition capability location and leverage assumptions into financial plans and forecasts.

• Provide fact-based analysis for requisition compensation promotion contractor offshoring and other workforce decisions in partnership with People and Finance.

• Monitor utilization productivity staffing mix bench capacity and resource deployment; work with leaders to improve alignment between demand and available capability.

• Create visibility into the financial impact of talent decisions and support proactive actions to protect delivery quality employee experience and margin.

• Serve as a trusted objective advisor to D&E leaders bringing constructive challenge financial discipline and an enterprise perspective to decisions.

• Coordinate effectively across Finance Accounting People Technology Marketing Legal and other Ankura Business Services teams without duplicating functional ownership.

• Lead develop or influence a high-performing business operations capability clarifying roles service expectations and ways of working across the global group.

• Handle sensitive financial client and people information with sound judgment discretion and appropriate governance.

• Communicate complex financial and operational issues in plain language and drive timely decisions and accountability.

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Business or a related field required; MBA relevant masters degree or CPA preferred.

• 10 years of progressive experience in FP&A business finance business unit operations or a related leadership role; professional services experience strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience owning planning budgeting forecasting management reporting financial modeling and executive-level performance reviews for a complex multi-service or global organization.

• Strong understanding of professional services economics including revenue backlog pipeline utilization leverage pricing realization margin project profitability working capital and headcount planning.

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability; experience with Workday or comparable enterprise planning financial and reporting platforms is preferred.

• Experience building dashboards improving data and reporting processes and using technology to solve complex business problems.

• Proven ability to lead through influence work across functions and geographies and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.

• Experience managing and developing teams directly or indirectly is preferred.

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