Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Drive continuous improvement in processes to forecasting and measuring our headcount cost base, ultimately driving greater accuracy in our staff cost base;
• Support leaders on Controllable function and Finance business partners through thorough analysis and understanding of our Staff costs and headcount, to develop data-driven insight and assist in the delivery of targets;
• On a Monthly basis, analyse and treat the files received from HR to ease the analysis and understanding of our Costs and Headcount mouvement
• Be the point of contact on Staff cost and headcount models for the controllable functions, to simplify the budgeting and forecasting processes and drive consistency across them;
• Drive insight in to the KPIs driving functions areas you are in charge and understand how these lead to, and impact, financial outcomes.
• Drive standardization and automation of processes and analysis that are currently very manual, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance function;

Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have:
• Proactive and solution focused with high attention to detail;
• Excellent communication and people-skills;
• Resilience and positive attitude to driving change;
• Ability to cut through ambiguity to deliver insight on underlying performance;
• Commercial and operational attitude in your thinking;
• Expertise in financial and analytical modelling (strong Excel skills required);
• Experience in working with non-finance stakeholders;

Preferred:
• Knowledge of HFM, Adaptive, X3 is beneficial and as well knowledge on Payroll

Technical / professional qualifications: • Accountancy qualification
• Knowledge on Staff Costs

Key performance indicators:
• Successful end-to-end budget/forecast processes;
• Staff Costs and Headcount management in line with Group expectations;
• Minimal variance to budget across functions (Staff cost and headcount);
• Full understanding by both the business and finance teams.