Commercial Finance Business Partner Analyst

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making. Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

This is an exciting role reporting directly to Finance Business Partner for Strategic Projects; the pivotal role of this function is to assist in financial management of central strategic projects focused on investments in new commercial services across the whole Kantar Media Group. Providing insight, strategic support, and analysis to the business to enable them to take informed decisions and actions that drive the best financial outcomes in terms of:

• Data driven decision making
• Deliver on Strategic Projects - Investments, business case and accounting for new projects
• Assist the FBP on the build and modification of business cases, liaising with Global Product, IT and Operations
• Tracking of current spend/performance vs estimated
• Support annual audit process on carrying value for intangible assets where needed
• Work with business teams to resolve issues and mitigate risk, particularly around overspend
• Adherence to all Kantar Media Policies and best practice across all divisions
• Support costing and pricing of larger project tenders ensuring the solution aligns with costing proposals, suited pricing strategies and Media’s up to date business structure
• Help ensure specifics of key metrics e.g. For successful projects, clear communication to all stakeholders and coordination between various central teams on projected and actual costs/recharges
• Collaborate with FBP to classify and quantify risks by providing reliable, comparable, and timely information.
• Point of contact for the business on day-to-day queries, including PO and job creation
• Supporting annual audit process and queries from Group auditors
• Supporting the FBPs in business trend analysis and KPIs on ad hoc queries

Semi Qualified (CIMA/ACCA) with +3 years’ experience working in a finance role. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Office 365, modelling. Data, trend and analysis oriented; can provide insightful insights and identify possible risks. Operated in complex business matrix model of similar size and scale, preferably in a similar industry. Fully Qualified - CIMA/ACCA or equivalent financial qualification.

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