Just
Job title:
Finance and Business Performance Lead (new ventures)
Company
Just
Job description
At Just we encourage a flexible and agile working environment for the majority of our opportunities. Get in touch with us to discuss in more detail.About the roleWe are looking for a Finance and Business Performance Lead to be the finance lead for a new strategic initiative including budget management, financial forecasting and partnering with the new team to ensure they are optimising value and supporting strategic objectives.You will set up and run the business performance review process for the new strategic initiative including creating MI and insight actual performance compared to key performance indicators, and producing decision-supporting analysis.You will maintain strong stakeholder relationships with colleagues over a range of levels of seniority, from Executive leaders to colleagues involved in the delivery of the initiative. This involves being a ‘critical friend’ by supporting understanding of, and challenging, the impacts of business decisions on financial outcomes.ResponsibilitiesBudget management: Ensure that budgets are spent to maximise value and resource the initiative appropriately to support delivery to the highest standard. Challenge resource mix to ensure we are getting value for money and support the Procurement team in ensuring key third party relationships are appropriately scrutinised from both a commercial and risk management perspective.Financial modelling: Maintain the financial model for this initiative (projecting out over a 30 year+ period), ensuring it is regularly updated and is reflective of our latest outlook.Business performance monitoring: Set up and run the business performance monitoring for the new initiative. This goes beyond financial performance and looks at the key indicators to be used to measure the initiative’s progress and provide insight to inform decisions and where future actions need to be realigned.Partner with the new initiative team and wider business: Maintain strong relationships including active communication and visibility with the business. Ensure you are approachable to support them to consider financial consequences to their key decisions. Help the business work through key resourcing challenges and prioritisation with a cost/value lens.Strong business knowledge: Maintain strong business understanding including key strategic priorities and markets in which the business operates. The initiative itself is changing and evolving at a fast pace, so there will be need to keep abreast of the changing landscape and shape of activity.Produce and contribute to regular MI and reporting: Ensure that MI answers the ‘so what’ and that variances are clearly explained. Proactively seek action from MI where there are undesirable variances. Ensure that processes by which cost information hits the ledger and MI is produced are robust and timely and improved where necessary to increase efficiency.Contribute towards engagement with the Group Board and other senior committees: Provide key materials towards updates to senior committees such Board and GEC including positioning of the business case and financial modelling, and where performance of the initiative needs to be evaluated.Input into key Group processes: Ensure timely, consistent and diligent input into wider Group processes including the annual 5 year Plan process, periodic reforecasting activity and monthly reporting into the ledgers and MI.Skills and KnowledgeQualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)Experience of budgeting, forecasting and management accounting best practice.Experience of working in a retail focussed industry with high levels of marketing activity is preferredExperience of working closely on strategic projects and/or start-up activities would be advantageousExperience of the wider Retirement industry (both financial and non-financial) and Financial Services would be advantageous.Experience of project/investment appraisal and resourcing/cost management for projects would be advantageousKnowledge of Oracle would be an advantage but not essential.Strong and confident communication skills – both written & verbalDisplays the confidence and ability to communicate with and challenge all levels of staff and management, including Executives.Strong analytical skills.Ability to handle and manipulate large amounts of raw data into relevant and presentable formats. This will require very effective IT skills – Microsoft Office packages including Word, advanced Excel (including pivot tables, look ups), presentational packages (PowerPoint, PDF).Ability to present management information in a clear and coherent manner suitable for presenting to senior management.Decision making and problem solving skills – (including evaluation skills)Company BenefitsA Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life AssuranceAlong with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your BirthdayPrivate Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in caseA generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targetsOpportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the companyFREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits PortalPlus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved onesAbout UsWe’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly.How people work, save, and plan for the future is all changing. A new generation of retirees needs a new kind of retirement company. A company who will look for new ways of doing things – and will always put the customer first.That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement. And with you on our team, we’re going to make sure they get it.We’ve built our sustainability strategy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and have selected goals where we believe we can make the most difference. By aligning our activity with these global goals, we can make sure we play our part in addressing the wider issues facing the planet and leave a positive legacy to the world. You can read more about our sustainability strategy .Diversity, equity and inclusion are priorities for us. Having a diverse, talented workforce with colleagues of different backgrounds, world views and experiences is the right thing to do. It’s also the most effective way to succeed, innovate and better serve our customers now and in the future. We are committed to our targets on gender and ethnicity and run a number of successful mentoring and sponsorship programmes for our colleagues from diverse backgrounds. We have multiple active employee network groups which champion issues including gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and neurodiversity. You can read more about our DE&I strategy and commitments .What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly – each other. We look forward to welcoming you to the team soon.
Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:23:51 GMT
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