Business Finance Specialist - Davies Consulting

Finance Business Partner – Consulting

Application Deadline: 14 May 2025

Department: Corporate Finance

Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time

Location: London UK

Description
The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team plays an integral role supporting the business in making educated business decisions. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who enjoys exploring the latest data analysis techniques, someone who wants to get involved in commercial business development support and is looking for a challenge.

The role will provide you with commercial exposure to all functions. You will play a key role in business partnering with consulting teams to produce valuable insights and to support business recommendations, taking ownership of the financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Consulting capabilities annual budget, supporting the Managing Partner submissions, and consolidating the Group overheads. Submitting final numbers into the Davies Group finance deliverables.
• Support to financial control teams to standardise data, managing data journey from start to end reports.
• Analyse trends and key drivers in business, suggesting solutions to mitigate risk and accelerate opportunities.
• Produce short-term and medium-term business forecasts and performance reports supported by insightful commentary on variances.
• Produce valuable MI to businesses, including SLT and board reporting.
• Produce Practice performance reports, including margin and pricing analysis, supporting new bids and M&A activities where appropriate.
• Perform detailed revenue and gross margin analysis by understanding and communicating to the Managing Partners any leakage based on the utilisation reports and ongoing resourcing demands including cost rate analysis.
• Liaise and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the organisation.
• Identify process improvements within the FP&A function, including getting best use from current and future finance systems.
• Be an expert and excel, understanding modelling techniques, and how to leverage data tools such as PowerBI.
• Provide ad hoc support to the business team whenever required.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• FP&A Experience of 5-8 years.
• Demonstrable senior stakeholder management
• Experience of latest data presentation tools including Power BI.
• Strong commercial acumen and business partnership experience
• Experience working for a multinational company, understanding FX impacts, and working with a distributed workforce.
• Experience with productivity/utilisation analysis.

Essential:

• Newly qualified – ACCA, ACA, CIMA.
• Excellent modelling skills on excel, good with unstructured, high-volume data must (financial modelling skills are key).
• Self-starter with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation.
• Solution finder with the courage to challenge the status quo.
• Organised and capable of managing own time to meet multiple deliverables/deadlines.
• Business partnering experience.

Desirable:

• Consulting Services background, with experience
• Microsoft D365 and Power BI