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We are recruiting this role within Pearson Finance Services (PFS) to support the provision of a consolidated view of financial business performance and planning to business partnering teams across Pearson. This role will prepare and deliver financial planningand analysis to business areas enabling effective business decision making. This role will also be expected to contribute to aspects of the budgeting and forecasting cycle.
To undertake this role the following will be required:
- Complete all deliverables in a timely, efficient and accurate manner
- Understand data sources and data flows and how financial and non-financial data is presented
- Contribute to team effort and assist co-workers across PFS and all business divisions as needed to enable effective delivery.
- Help to create a work atmosphere conducive to collaborative working
- Maintain customer satisfaction by promptly following up on customers’ requests for information
- Identify opportunities for continuous process improvement and innovative solutions and communicate these to your line manager
Activities / Tasks
- Take ownership of the budget and forecasting process for one or more sub-divisions within the Corporate division of Pearson, including meeting with the business to agree compensation, discretionary and capital expenditure plans.
- Prepare forecast summary reporting packs for the business with analysis and commentary.
- Input into the annual strategic planning process through preparation of analysis and other information to enable collation of the plan.
- Prepare key month end management reporting packs for decision making / disclosure to market.
- Monthly and quarterly consolidation of management information packs across business areas and roll up to group level showing performance against budget, forecast and prior year
- Support local business partners in providing targeted quality commercial analysis
- Review of financial data during the month to provide timely corrections.
- Preparation of business cases utilising Pearson Approved documentation along with workings files relevant to the business case. Support on collating the required data inputs for costs and benefit workings.
- Champion continuous improvement within PFS to deliver tangible benefits and engage in wider standardisation and streamlining initiatives.
Skills / capabilities:
Strong accounting knowledge - holding a recognised accountancy qualification or equivalent
Analytical skills: Well developed analytical/variance analysis skills, proven ability to review and analyse financial data and explain results to senior management. Provide analysis to support decision making, including presenting economic outcomes, identifyingkey value drivers, benefits, risks and accounting implications
Advanced user of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel (v-lookups, sum-ifs, pivot tables etc.)
Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate with both finance and non-finance professionals
Experience of finance ERP systems (Oracle preferred but not essential)
A self-starter who is motivated to work under own initiative when required demonstrating initiative and sound judgement;
Ability to work as part of a team, identifying and providing support to colleagues
Ability to work to strict deadlines and to be able to prioritise to meet those deadlines
Experience working with and partnering and presenting to senior stakeholders in multiple geographical locations and time zones;
Ability to multi-task; coordinating the delivery of multiple priorities in parallel across disparate teams and locations
**Job**: FINANCE
**Organization**: Corporate Finance
**Schedule**: FULL_TIME
**Req ID**: 1630
