FP&A Associate – cash performance

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in a month at 23:59 BST.

The Vacancy

Purpose of the Role:

Working with group and business finance teams, the purpose of the FP&A Associate role is to contribute to the accurate and timely reporting of actual cash performance, cash budgets and cash forecasts, alongside in-depth analysis of insight-driven commentary.

Key Role Accountabilities:

• Take active part in preparing the group’s monthly management cash flow, including understanding differences to the statutory cash flow.
• Work alongside businesses to understand and challenge cash performance, including the drivers of working capital movements and variances to budget and prior year.
• Prepare in-depth analyses of particular cash flow items or particular business units.
• Liaise with businesses and group treasury to prepare a weekly rolling short-term cash forecast for the Group.
• Review and challenge cash budgets and quarterly re-forecasts.
• Prepare ad-hoc cash forecasts and historic reporting analyses for investors and/or management.
• Assist in preparing a quarterly going concern analysis.
• Monitor the M&A pipeline and understand the cash requirements/implications on the forecast.
• Understand and monitor cash flows relating to the group’s external debt and intra-group debt (as well as trading intercompany).

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience within Top 10 Accounting Practices, Audit or Deals.
• Experience of working in the Financial Services industry.

Person Specification:

• Good analytical and modelling skills.
• Strong accounting skills with a good understanding of how transactions flow through the ledgers.
• Good communication, presentation and influencing skills.
• Clear thinker with the ability to present simple analysis from complex data.
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage to tight deadlines.
• High degree of integrity and credibility with management.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Self-starter with a strong sense of urgency and follow up.

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