Senior Manager- FP&A

Process Brief

The role is a key senior member supporting the Financial Controlling Processes across AXA UK entities and will be responsible for managing the Expense Reporting, P&L Analysis and Decision Support. The role will also required to work on the Various analytical reporting (BAU or Adhoc). Drive quality within FP&A and be the first point of control for FP&A Operations.

Key Accountabilities

§   Lead budget and forecast exercises for all activities per corporate instructions.

§   Liaise with Partners and Business partner team on controlling activities.   Drive variances to resolution by communicating efficiently and by requesting management’s approval to accept adjustments whenever needed.  

§   Participate in the month-end closing exercise by analyzing revenue and expenses and preparing accruals entries as needed.

§   Reconcile expense accruals and suggest changes and updates to Management per variances encountered.

§   Maintain contracts and automatic tools in Coupa/SAP to facilitate automatic accruals.

§   Prepare other ad-hoc reporting as required.

§   Documentation of audit trail (Assist the Group audit process and effectively deal with various auditors)

§   Control and analyzing the consolidated financial statements – actual and forecast/ budgets, volume, and profitability KPIs, strategic plans (mainly on P&L and Volumes KPIs)

§   Identify and analyze risks and uncertainties that may impact Group financial statements, management business monitoring.

§   Manage relationship with internal/ external departments in production of Financial Annual Report

§   Review/ check of press release and slides presented to the Analysts.

§   Actively contribute by engaging in transversal projects to improve quality of processes and the overall financial reporting at group level.

§   Identify, facilitate, and implement process improvement ideas to improve efficiency & gain productivity .

§   Dashboarding / controlling skills (for CFO and Management Reporting)

§   Successful process delivery with no KPI/KRI misses.

§   Personal engagement in the process including ownership of tasks to be performed by self.

§   Troubleshoot bottlenecks / issues in the overall process and drive for resolution.

§   To ensure all key customer requirements are met (both internal and external) and need to do active communication with partner for managing the F&B process.

§   Undertake process improvements and enhance productivity.

§   Enable Best Practice sharing across geographies leading to enhanced cycle times etc.

§   Enhance resilience in the process through qualitative measures.

§   Will be the first point of contact for all COPERNIC countries/Pool for CFS process.

§   He/she should maintain high level of engagement with team and help to resolve technical issues quickly.

§   Ensure team is well trained and well- coordinated to achieve all Budgets/ Forecast deadlines.

§   He or She should be fully functional along with the management of operational responsibilities including evolvement in UK Anaplan activities/Budgeting & Forecasting tasks/ Variance analysis and take CFS projects pertaining to Copernic entities.

§   Build a strong resilience plan for smaller teams, innovative to create resilience within and outside of CFS team. (RTR domain).

§   Drive culture of innovation and process improvement across the CFS team.

§   Review critical tasks regularly (as per quality checklist).and ensure smooth delivery of the process for all entities.

§   Robust control on Risk and Control framework for internal and external reporting.

§   SLA/SOW and addendum sign offs to be prioritized for sign off annually.

§   Should be able to contribute to identifying & discussing incremental migration opportunities with relevant Partner Stakeholders.

§   Adhere to all internal/external timelines and ownership of various Reporting requirements, ORM/KRI/KPI/SOW/governances/All audits/Revenue & Efficiency targets/hiring/ and all other ad hoc requests.