Head of International Financial Planning & Analysis

Head of International Financial Planning & Analysis

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Remote Type: Hybrid

Location: London - Tower Place East

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Yesterday

Job Requisition ID: R_284863

Company:

Marsh

Description:

Marsh McLennan is seeking candidates for the following position based in the London office:

Head of International Financial Planning & Analysis

What can you expect?

• As the Head of the MMC International Finance team, you will work closely with MMC International CFO, MMC International CEO, Regional CEOs and Regional FP&A teams globally.
• A challenging role involving a combination of detailed analysis and broader level insight and storytelling at senior level.

What you will be rewarded with?

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

We will rely on you to:

• Provide leadership to MMC International Finance, working closely with the CFO to forge direction and delivery.
• Be a relied-upon counsel to the International CFO, International CEO and Regional CFOs.
• Take responsibility for reporting, analysing and explaining Marsh & Mercer International financial performance.
• Own the budget process for Marsh & Mercer International, understanding opportunities and threats and build credible plans to deliver profitable growth in line with targets.
• Lead the forecasting process for MMC International, ensuring an appropriate mix of top-down understanding and client level analytics.
• Provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior management, including the provision of accurate, timely and insightful analyses of key projects in the business unit such as acquisitions, team hires, IT projects etc.
• Partner with Corporate and Global Finance teams to ensure International performance is well understood.
• Ensure the business receives robust KPIs to run the business, including coordinating the collection of all performance indicators, highlighting trends and analysing causes of variances to budget, forecast and prior year.
• When needed, present and explain Marsh & Mercer Internationals financial results at management meetings, including an in-depth analysis of the revenue walk versus prior year.
• Prepare all sensitive and confidential analysis as directed by the CEOs or CFO.
• Support key matrix business (i.e. Affinity, Advisory).
• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives.
• Champion finance transformation.
• Prepare board presentations, financial presentations, capital expenditure analysis, client profitability analysis and other projects requested by senior management.
• Supervision of Financial Analysts.

What you need to have:

• Full accounting qualifications (ACCA/CIMA or equivalent), with significant post qualification experience.
• Substantial experience of working in financial services, preferably insurance broking firm.
• Experience of presenting financial results & forecasts on a regular basis to senior executives, running a business budgeting process.
• Financial analysis skills to a high level.
• Finance change and transformation process management expertise and experience.
• Excellent stakeholder relationship building skills.
• Team leadership experience and skills.
• Excellent strategic capability.
• Effective written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to think creatively, be highly-driven and self-motivated.
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems that are general in nature.
• Willingness to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on management capacity.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience of client level analytical challenges would be a plus.
• Experience with Hyperion Planning, Essbase, and Oracle Financials strongly preferred.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.