Senior Financial Analyst
Marsh
Total years of experience :12 years, 5 Months
• Coordinate the development of annual budgets for EMEA IT totalling £50 million
• Built effective and lasting business and personal relationships within EMEA IT
• Review YTD actual performance against budgets and prior year with IT operational leadership
• On a monthly basis, work with shared service operations to re-forecast full year spend by month • External service providers invoices auditing, approval and routing (G/L account and department) • Documents significant opportunities/ risks to current forecast
• Assisted operations in the preparations of financial modelling, related to major projects
Prepare monthly management accounts expense for all cost centres in line with UK and global time table
including working with the Accounting team to ensure all costs for the relevant period have been correctly
recorded.
• Partnered with business leaders to ensure cost and cost saving targets are met and continually explored ways
of improving cost efficiency, including maintaining strong business relationships with global BP&A
partners to share knowledge, insights and best practices.
• Promoted a culture of budgetary accountability, constantly reviewing and improving the Functional area
financial practices to improve transparency, accuracy and cost optimisation.
• Produced periodic and ad hoc business unit performance reports and analytics that provide cogent and
actionable information for assigned executives and Finance management
• Provides financial analysis, modelling and advisory services to assigned business unit. Identifies opportunities
to reduce cost and increase efficiency on expense side, as well as ways to maximize return on investment related to business initiatives
• Analysing problems before producing informative and accurate reports and conclusions
• Providing insightful analysis to benchmark performance, monitoring the performance of any commercial trials
and making recommendations
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in order to improve communication and
understanding of requests and interpretation of results and analysis performed
• Ensuring most relevant data source is used and that the process for analysis is the most efficient possible
• Assist in the preparation of information to feed into quarterly forecasts and annual budgets
• Producing reports for investors.
• Aid the team in understanding what drives the business and how reporting tools can be used to add value to
Business partnering with various internal functions producing management information reports, balance sheet reconciliations. Budgeting and forecasting management accounts.
Mathematics and business management degree. Overall grade was a 2:2