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Strategic Finance Advisor

2 months ago

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Position Overview

Finance Business Partner

Importance of this Role

The Finance Business Partner is pivotal in executing Kantar's comprehensive financial strategy at global, divisional, and regional levels, collaborating closely with colleagues across our Centers of Excellence and Global Business Services. You will be an integral part of a Business Partnering team that delivers exceptional financial strategies, insights, solutions, and processes tailored to your Business Unit within Kantar.

Key Responsibilities
  • Maintain the relationship with the Business Unit leader, acting as a strategic and insightful partner, serving as the primary contact for financial matters.
  • Oversee the annual planning and forecasting for the Business Unit, developing essential financial planning assumptions in collaboration with other organizational areas.
  • Manage the Business Unit planning cycle, ensuring compliance with the divisional schedule.
  • Review, challenge, and approve financial plans for the Business Unit before they are presented to leadership.
  • Assess revenue pipelines and implement necessary interventions to optimize revenue and contribution margins, ensuring these adjustments are included in forecasts and annual plans.
  • Assist in the monthly closing process by identifying discrepancies against expectations.
  • Collaborate with HR on workforce planning to ensure alignment with forecasted revenue and expenses.
  • Enhance business performance by providing strategic, financial, and commercial decision support, offering analysis and recommendations to facilitate leadership decision-making.
  • Deliver monthly performance insights compared to forecasts, annual plans, and year-over-year drivers for the Business Unit.
  • Act as the primary contact for strategic financial support for the North American operations.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor, providing insights and challenges to commercial decisions based on thorough analysis.
  • Take ownership of initiatives, ensuring that commercial impacts and benefits are tracked through to realization.
  • Review financial outputs from systems and supporting teams to guarantee the integrity and accuracy of business results.
  • Ensure that standard business performance reports meet the needs of the Business Unit and provide ad-hoc analysis as necessary.
  • Assist in preparing and monitoring capital and operational expenditure cases.
  • Support internal and external audit activities by providing qualitative inputs and necessary commentary.
  • Accountable for local control operations in accordance with Group Controls policy.
Required Skills & Experience

To excel in this position, you should possess:
  • A degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
  • Membership in a recognized professional accounting body (e.g., CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent) or an MBA.
  • Proven experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
  • A strong understanding of the internal and external factors influencing business performance.
  • Experience in capital investment case preparation and evaluation.
  • Experience in a global, data-driven, and matrixed organizational environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply financial knowledge to solve complex business challenges, including the capacity to communicate financial information to non-financial leaders.
  • A strong service orientation supported by hands-on customer service experience.
  • Effective communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
  • A keen business intuition, with the ability to foster positive relationships with key collaborators.
  • The ability to navigate difficult conversations with integrity and humility.
  • A collaborative spirit, capable of working efficiently with colleagues at various organizational levels.
  • The ability to generate practical and efficient solutions to challenges and seize new opportunities.
  • A mindset that challenges the status quo and encourages innovative thinking.
  • The ability to manage multiple tasks effectively while adhering to tight deadlines, including the capacity to prioritize successfully.
  • Proficiency in financial systems (preferably SIA, One Stream, Maconomy, PowerBI, Tableau).
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes:
  • Comprehensive medical plans covering a wide range of health services.
  • Health Savings Account/FSA options.
  • Dental and vision coverage tailored to unique healthcare needs.
  • A wellness program.
  • 401k plan with matching contributions.
  • Tuition reimbursement and commuter benefits.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
At Kantar, we are committed to rewarding our employees through a transparent and consistent approach that ensures market competitiveness and supports a performance-driven culture. We strive to create an equitable and supportive work environment where individuals feel included and valued, allowing them to thrive while considering their mental health and well-being. We aim to build a diverse community that broadens our talent pool, reflects local representation, fosters diverse thinking, and enhances commercial outcomes.

Kantar is dedicated to inclusion and diversity; we welcome applications from all segments of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.