Finance Business Partner - Group FP&A

Job Description

The Group FP&A team are responsible for internal financial reporting and financial planning for the VMO2 Group, providing analysis and insights on the Group’s financial performance.

The role plays a key part in the Group’s financial reporting, including preparation of monthly financials, analysis, and insights, providing clear and concise narrative and executive MI reports to senior stakeholders and to our shareholders.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Preparing accurate and timely financials, storytelling and insight on the Group’s monthly financial performance to senior management (including EC, CFO, Shareholders).
• Collaborating with wider finance and business teams to understand and summarise the key narrative around the Group’s monthly financial performance.
• Working closely with the Financial reporting team to ensure a smooth, timely and accurate month end close process.
• Ownership of underlying working files and financial models, and aim to continuously improve and drive efficiency (e.g., automation, streamlining).
• Act as key point of contact for Group FP&A month end reporting processes and deliverables.
• Provide clear and timely guidance and timeliness to the wider finance and business teams to ensure Group Reporting deadlines are consistently met.

Who we are

The UK’s fastest broadband network. The nation’s best-loved mobile brand. And, one of the UK's biggest companies too.

Diverse, high performing teams - jam packed with serious talent. Together, we offer the UK more choice and better value, through our boundary-pushing, customer-championing values and ambitions.

Together, we are Virgin Media O2, and we can't wait to see what you can do.

Accessible, inclusive and equitable for all

Virgin Media O2 is an equal opportunities employer and we're working hard to remove bias and barriers for our people and candidates. So, we build equity and inclusion into everything we do, from the policies we craft to the relationships we shape. We support and encourage you to be your authentic self throughout your application journey with us.

The must haves

In order to be considered, you must have the following experience:

• Qualified accountant in ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Proven FP&A experience, including preparation of executive level MI reports, clear and concise narrative and insightful commentary to senior stakeholders.
• Experienced in financial modelling, analysis of large volumes of data, and identifying trends and insights.
• Strong attention to detail, with high degree of accuracy.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Demonstrable collaboration and stakeholder management

The other stuff we are looking for

We'd also love you to bring:

• Experience of Thinkcell, SAP BPC, Essbase, Smartview and Anaplan are highly desirable.
• Able to prioritise to respond to short notice requests and tight deadlines, a track record of handling challenging and changing deadlines and quick turnarounds of information whilst maintaining attention to detail.

What's in it for you

Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world.

Working at Virgin Media O2, you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.

Next steps

Once you've applied the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a competency based interview.

If you’ve got any burning questions or require reasonable adjustments to support you through the recruitment process, please drop the recruiter a note.

Our mission is to become the most recommended brand, by our people and our customers. A massive part of that journey is about how we ensure that our forward-thinking people have a working environment in which they can truly belong and thrive. For us, it's absolutely critical that every single person can bring, and be, their whole selves at work, and we're working hard every day to achieve this.

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