FP&A Analyst

Job title: FP&A Analyst

Pay rate: £350 per day

Contract Length: 3 months

Location: Basingstoke (2 days per week, Tuesdays anchor day)

IR35: Inside

Job Description Summary

This role will sit within the Roadside Finance team with a dotted reporting line into the Transformation team within COO. Your primary focus will be to support end-to-end programme management, covering governance, portfolio appraisal, cost management, benefit realisation, and post implementation reviews.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis - Road in providing support to the Finance and Transformation teams across investment and cost management through:

• Development of efficient and effective benefits tracking methodology and analysis; tracking of investment benefits through the development of business-led driver analysis that gives forward confidence in portfolio returns
• Consolidation of benefits tracking into meaningful and concise analysis for Board level presentations
• Supporting the prioritisation of annual / ad-hoc Capex spend across the Roadside and Customer Ops portfolio; aligned to the 5 year roadmap
• Working with Accountable Executives, Initiative/Project Managers and Finance Teams to develop robust business cases with OKRs and financial benefits that can be tracked and are embedded in divisional budgets
• Analysing project/program performance to detect early deviations from schedule and cost/benefit plans
• Developing analysis and business models to better understand the AA's cost base and provide insight to support decision making on the allocation of resources across the business
• Participating in continuous improvement initiatives to drive forecasting accuracy, process standardisation / optimisation and PPM tool effectiveness
• Focusing on maintaining and improving financial controls and performance through ensuring all financial procedures and controls are applied as required; and advising non-finance functions on their application
• Developing and maintaining a broad knowledge of Roadside commercial activities and related KPIs and metrics
• Monitoring and driving the commercial success of the Roadside division

The Individual

Capability, Knowledge and Experience

• Business planning, strategy and business case development with experience in B2C and B2B services desirable
• Strong financial analysis and excel modelling skills; develop benefit tracking / analysis capability
• Experienced in investigating, developing and appraising solutions to commercial opportunities with a high attention to detail
• Strong understanding and experience of investment, financial and business controls
• Strong ability to work at senior levels of the organisation to solve complex problems
• Excellent organisational and planning skills, with proven ability to work independently

Education & Qualifications

This is a highly numerate and analytical role - while there are no specific educational requirements for this, it is expected that the successful candidate will have one or more of the following:

• Graduate calibre (or equivalent of experience)
• Accountancy qualification
• Training in economics, business or finance

Personal Characteristics

• Open, honest and collaborative style
• Strong growth mindset
• Relentless focus on accuracy, quality and attention to detail
• Flexible and able to balance multiple projects/priorities
• Intellectual curiosity and a passion to solve complex problems
• Organised, logical, numerate, fact-based
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing compelling presentations and presenting these to senior stakeholders