Senior Finance Business Analyst

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Company Description

At Informa, no two days and no two people are the same, and you'll find the freedom, opportunity and support of a fantastic community to make a real impact.

We're an international business that connects specialists with knowledge, helping them to learn more, know more and do more through live and on demand events, digital and data-driven services and academic research.

We are home to over 10,000 colleagues across 30 countries and are a member of the UK's FTSE 100 group of leading public companies.

In Global Support, we provide expert guidance and hands-on support to the Informa Group and Informa's many business teams. Across tech, finance, legal, corporate development, HR, communications, operations and many other areas, we work collaboratively and flexibly to help our brands serve their customers and help the company succeed.

Job Description

Role Profile

As the Senior Finance Business Analyst (SFBA), you'll report directly to the Director of Planning & Reporting, playing a key role in managing Technology costs across the Group, addressing M&A impacts on GS functions, and driving the business planning and reporting cycle for GS. You'll collaborate closely with finance colleagues across divisions, leveraging your insight and analytical expertise to influence business decisions. Working in a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, you'll be instrumental in shaping and managing the financial direction of the business.

Key Responsibilities

You will be expected to support the Planning and Reporting Director on the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:

• Technology "Horizontal" Costs
  • Lead on FP&A activities across Divisional and Group finance colleagues
  • Produce consolidated reporting in excel including commentary, variance analysis and bridges
  • Produce supporting PowerPoint slides with good story telling
  • Support drive to make activity more efficient and effective
• M&A
  • Support the Director of Planning and Reporting on establishing standard FP&A processes and material to provide visibility to stakeholders across impacted divisions on the "Change" and "Run" impacts across divisional operating models
  • Support the Director of Planning and Reporting on GS function M&A assessments as required
• Business Planning & Reporting
  • Produce the monthly Operations Management Report and Quarterly Board Report
  • Support production of PPP material
  • Liaise with the GS Head of FP&A and team to effectively co-ordinate and align material produced with Financial Reporting to the Group. Liaise with HR stakeholders to effectively co-ordinate and align material produced with HR reporting to the Group

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work with and support stakeholders in a global divisional environment.
• Able to demonstrate an innovative approach to work with enthusiasm and innovation, ability to drive move to global, consistent, and best practice ways of working.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good process skillset and attention to detail.
• Ability to work from high level and bottom-up perspectives.
• Able to provide robust challenge to managers around their performance, good commercial acumen.
• Leadership potential
• Self-starter with proactive nature, and ability to work autonomously under limited supervision.
• Good influencing skills, ability to deal with conflict and drive change.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, complex, and uncertain environment.
• Good project management & prioritisation skills.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, ability to write reports and create PowerPoint presentations in a succinct and direct manner.
• Strong excel skills.
• Credibility and professional integrity to work with stakeholders at all levels within the organisation.

Colleague Responsibilities

• Support people development to ensure the effectiveness of all colleagues within the unit concentrating on both performance and soft skill development.
• Planning and prioritising the work within the unit ensuring resource management is considered.
• Preparation and reporting of specific performance metrics within agreed deadlines
• Ensure a robust communication structure is in place across the team to ensure all key messages are communicated.
• Actively support a culture of team engagement
• Escalate team admin issues.
• Act as a role model to others
• Work closely with HR to ensure all people management processes and policies are being adhered to

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Finance processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Good knowledge of leadership, coaching and stakeholder management
• Recognised professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• A track record of continuous professional and management development

Additional Information

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here's some of what you can expect when you join us. But don't just take our word for it - see what our colleagues have to say at LifeAt.Informa.com

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it's time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We're not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most - although not all - of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.

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