Finance Business Partner

2 months ago

City of London, United Kingdom WTW Full time

*This role can be 100% remote, based anywhere in the UK/Europe*
The Finance function serves both internal and external customers: colleagues within our company, client organizations, shareholders, financial institutions, vendors, and regulatory agencies around the world. This role resides in our FP&A Practice within HWCFinance and will report directly to the Finance Director of Health and Benefits (H&B).
The Finance Business Partner - Health and Benefits Europe, will serve as a trusted advisor to the H&B Europe leaders (H&B Europe Excl. France, and H&B France) and will serve as a member of the H&B Europe leadership team.He / She will have responsibility forthe provision of regional holistic financial support to help the business meet its stated objectives.
- The individual filling this role will be responsible for helping the business manage all aspects of Finance, including financial performance management (month end / quarterly close, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, etc.), ad hoc reporting and analysis, controlscompliance, as well as facilitate policy implementation and interpretation.
This position will report to and work closely with the H&B Finance Director on initiatives affecting the H&B business more broadly. The individual will actively engage with other Finance colleagues and leaders to drive best practices across the business andprovide coordination and leadership to geography finance teams in Europe to ensure financial results and plans for H&B Europe are aligned with global objectives.
**The Role**:

- Act as a key strategic financial advisor to the H&B Europe business leaders in the financial management of the region by driving appropriate areas of prioritization that generate the best potential financial outcomes.
- Support the H&B Finance Director with the management of the H&B business financial performance by proactively addressing any issues within the H&B Europe business.
- Maintain a strong “client service” focus and culture while driving relentless pursuit of business performance optimization through thoughtful reporting and analysis for the H&B Europe business leadership team. Identify “best in class” reporting practices,eliminate inefficiencies from current processes with the primary objective of creating additional capacity to focus on the delivery of value
- added reporting and strategic advice to business leaders.
- Develop and manage strong working relationships across the HWC Finance team as well as with the various departments within Corporate Finance. Be a trusted advisor and partner to internal clients.
- Implement strong processes to ensure the execution of financial
- performance management (month end / quarterly close, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, etc.) to meet all key internal stakeholder objectives and deadlines.
- Analyze business monthly results; conducting a detailed review of monthly P&Ls and propose financial adjustments to reflect proper position as needed. To be proactive in identifying and monitoring key performance indicators, highlighting trends, and analyzingroot causes of significant variances to prior year, plan, and forecast.
- Command strong understanding of ASC 606 / Deferral Accounting and drive critical financial interpretation to support business leadership in the understanding of financial results.
- Prepare financial materials for the H&B Finance Director and H&B Europe business leaders on a
- timely basis with pertinent commentary on key issues and trends.
- Develop annual plans and quarterly forecasts which align with achievement of financial objectives that support the underlying company’s internal and external stakeholder goals. Evaluate key trends and identify risk and
- opportunities for profitablegrowth and to drive improved forecast accuracy.
- Counsel the H&B Europe Business Leadership Team on spending decisions; setting out theimpact of such investments on the achievement of plan / forecast objectives.
- Perform ad-hoc analyses to support segment or WTW-wide initiatives, including continuous improvement, management reporting, M&A, integration, etc.
- Support WTW transformation efforts as needed.
- Develop and share supplemental reporting and analysis with business leadership and internal clients; work with business leaders to create additional tools and metrics to improve management efficiency and effectiveness.
- Support capital and resource allocation decisions through insightful analysis and modelling.

**The Requirements**:

- Strong understanding of and expertise in Health and Benefits is preferable.
- Extensive experience in financial analysis, accounting, or business operations analysis.
- Qualified Accountant or deep related experience.
- Financial and Business acumen as evidenced by having roles with progressively broader financial responsibilities.
- Exposure to the commercial models to drive sound financial support reporting and analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to think critically and analytically.
- Proactive approach to problem solving and a customer centric mindset.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to convey financial messages to senior leadership in a succinct and credible manner.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships across all levels of the organization and with outside personnel; diplomacy, leadership, and confidence are important.
- Must be a hands-on, self-starter with the ability to handle shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be able to work within a matrix organization to collaborate with others across segments/businesses and geographies....

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