Our client is one of the leading businesses managing the process of incidents on behalf of the world's leading insurers, brokers and fleet managers, together with warranty and service plan provision for many automotive dealerships, globally. It brings together a world-class supplier network, outstanding people and sophisticated technology platforms to provide principal advantages to its clients and their customers.

The business has 3,300 employees across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia, and serves over 1,200 clients, including 15 of the top 20 global general insurers and three of the top five fleet and lease management companies.

The organisation aims to continually go beyond expectations for its clients and their customers and each year they process over four million insurance claims, saving leading insurers tens of millions of pounds.

Description

There is a need to bring in a Head of FP&A to act as one of the critical links between the companies operating businesses and Group finance. Working closely with the Group Reporting team in South Africa, the Head of FP&A will be responsible for the Group's financial forecasting and budgeting processes. They will also be responsible for critical financial analysis and support for the Group team including the CEO, COO and CFO.

Additionally, the role will strengthen the relationships between the Group and the divisional FD's and provide greater commercial insight and challenge for the Group. This will ultimately result in higher quality, more accurate, insightful and timely financial analysis, turning 'output into outcomes'. You will also be one of the key interfaces on financial performance between the Group its financial stakeholders.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Project manage end-to-end delivery of financial planning and forecasting including communications, timetables, data requirements and modelling;
• Delivering medium and long term cash forecasts by working with the regional finance teams
• Support the Group reporting team in developing high quality, insightful reporting and robust forecasting ensuring early warning on any deviation from the expected outcome;
• Understand, analyse and challenge key operating metrics and drivers and challenge Divisional Management where results don't meet Group targets;
• Establishing strong relationships with business leaders, financial stakeholders & external professional advisers
• Support the implementation of new systems and processes to strengthen the integrity and maximise the impact of the Group's reporting process;
• Implement robust outcome-focused analysis contributing to commercial decision-making
• Support the Group in achieving targeted increases in revenue and reduction in operating costs;

Given the rapidly evolving nature of the company, the successful candidate must be capable of handling multiple priorities simultaneously and of anticipating and addressing issues before they become significant obstacles.

This is a great opportunity for a self-starting individual who thrives in a less structured, entrepreneurial environment and can deal with ambiguity.

The role will be based in the Central London office in Paddington but may require travel to the other Group offices from time to time.

The successful candidate will a graduate qualified accountant and have at least five years post qualification experience in Finance & management. This can be either from industry or someone having previously worked in a large accountancy firm where they have worked across a range of sectors.

You will be able to demonstrate an ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, combined with an understanding of how to develop & implement best-practice business processes. They should be structured in their thinking & possess good decision-making skills, combined with the flexibility & ability to collaborate with others to produce results.

In addition, the candidate should have the maturity and gravitas to deal with senior management and external advisors and be able to deal with business ambiguity and finance processes which are currently highly manual. Strong systems skills including Excel, PowerPoint & Word are essential to be able to perform successfully.

To apply for this role, please use the Apply button, or alternatively, email your CV to Andrew Steele: asteele@walkerhamill.com quoting reference AS50794.

Please note that due to the expected volume of applications we will only be able to respond to those candidates whose experience matches the requirements of our client. If you have not heard from us within the next ten days, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Walker Hamill has been a specialist finance and strategy recruiter for 30 years. We have an extensive client group, including major multinational listed organisations, private equity backed businesses and privately owned companies. We recruit across all sectors and have particularly strong client relationships in media, retail, pharma/biotech, technology, property/real estate, leisure and business services. Headquartered in London, we have additional offices in continental Europe. For more information, please see www.walkerhamill.com.