Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis

Description
The Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis will work collaboratively with business leaders, functional leaders and the finance teams for North America, EMEA & APAC to understand business performance, financial results and enhance the business' ability to meet and exceed targets. The successful candidate will play a significant role in creating and delivering actionable data-driven insight and analysis to help senior management, the Board of Directors, and other key stakeholders understand business performance and aid in their decision-making. Reporting to the Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, this position will be an important contributor in helping to achieve the business strategy of Gordon Brothers. Responsibilities / Essential Job Functions

• Support all aspects of the forecasting and financial planning processes, including analysis of results, budgeting, modelling, and creating reporting processes - building and enhancing these processes to deliver timely, accurate and insightful management reporting, analysis and recommendations.
• Build and enhance processes to deliver timely, accurate and insightful management information, analysis and recommendations - Ensure quality, efficiency and clear documentation of deliverables.
• Refine, enhance and continue to improve the budgeting & forecasting process.
• Drive process improvement and consistency across the regions.
• Collaborate across the business units and regional teams to deliver value-added financial activities including forecasting of in-flight projects, maintain consolidated forecast for current and subsequent financial years, balance sheet forecasting and capital planning.
• Partner with Technology, Strategy and Innovation team to introduce and integrate tools and technologies to drive efficiency and consistency in the management information for the regions.
• Contribute to special projects, perform complex analysis, summarize conclusions and support the FP&A team to make recommendations.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong financial mind with expertise in modelling, planning, budgeting and forecasting, performance analytics.
• Excellent IT / system knowledge with Workday, Adaptive Planning and NetSuite experience, desired.
• Manage reporting and the ability to distilling complex financial concepts into easy-to-understand messages.
• Coding experiences (Python, SQL or VBA), desired.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial analysis tools; experience with ERP systems is a plus.
• Ability to effectively communicate and work on multiple processes and deliverables in a dynamic environment, across multiple organizational layers and departments.
• High level of attention to detail and organised.
• Confident ability to interact with all levels of management.
• Collaborative, team player adept at working with and influencing business partners and building constructive relationships with stakeholders.
• High degree of intellectual curiosity, hungry to learn & self-motivated.
• Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills.

Education & Experience

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or other highly quantitative degree required (Min 2:1)
• 2 - 3 years corporate/ divisional FP&A role, business strategy or a related role.
• Analytics experience in a fast-paced financial services or professional services firm.
• Experience using financial analysis to generate, evaluate, and act on strategic options and opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to meet and exceed expectations and help others drive results.

Gordon Brothers offers a competitive total compensation package including base salary and incentive plan, benefits allowance and more.

Gordon Brothers is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. This Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

It is the policy of Gordon Brothers to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.

In compliance with the Equality Act 2010, please contact the Human Resources department if you have a disability and need reasonable accommodation with any part the application process. Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.