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As an Associate Director in Finance Business Analysis, you will serve as a crucial financial partner to senior Finance Leaders. Your role will integrate FP&A expertise, commercial interpretation, and performance insights to guide leaders in understanding performance drivers, identifying emerging risks and opportunities, and implementing actions that enhance business outcomes.

We are looking for a forward-thinking, credible, and insight-driven finance professional. You will excel at transforming financial, operational, and market data into clear narratives and actionable recommendations. Your discipline, judgment, and curiosity will be vital in supporting planning and forecasting, refining management information, recognizing performance trends, and facilitating timely, evidence-based decision-making.

Your primary responsibilities will include acting as a trusted finance partner to assigned Service Line, Markets, or CBS leadership teams, offering insights that link financial results to commercial, operational, and strategic performance. You will deliver high-quality weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reports and insights, ensuring they are accurate, concise, action-oriented, and geared towards leadership decision-making.

Responsibilities extend to supporting planning, forecasting, and budgeting cycles by translating business strategy, market context, and operational assumptions into robust financial plans and practical performance targets. You will analyze key metrics such as revenue, margin, cost, pipeline, backlog, wins, losses, utilization, and productivity to highlight critical risks, opportunities, and necessary corrective actions.

Furthermore, you will provide scenario modeling and option analysis to support leadership decisions, clearly outlining assumptions, sensitivities, trade-offs, risks, and recommended courses of action. Collaborating with Finance Colleagues, you will enhance reporting solutions, automate routine tasks, improve data quality, and increase the usability of management information. You will also prepare and contribute to leadership presentations and performance reviews, using compelling storytelling to transform complex data into decision-ready insights and respond to ad hoc leadership requests with practical, commercially relevant analysis.

Success in this role hinges on being a commercially astute finance professional capable of translating complex financial, operational, and market data into clear insights, practical recommendations, and confident leadership discussions. Essential skills include a strong FP&A, financial analysis, and performance management capability, with the ability to link results to business drivers, risks, and opportunities.

Executive-level communication skills are vital for translating complex data into clear narratives, concise commentary, and decision-ready presentations. You should possess commercial curiosity and sound judgment to comprehend market context, service line priorities, operational levers, and the actions needed to improve performance. Credibility to engage senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and influence through evidence-based insight is paramount.

Strong technical proficiency across modeling, reporting, and analytical tools is required, complemented by a proactive mindset towards automation, simplification, and continuous improvement. Comfort in a fast-paced, global, and matrixed environment, adept at managing ambiguity, competing priorities, and diverse stakeholder needs, is crucial. A collaborative, ownership-driven style that builds trusted relationships across various teams is also key.

To qualify, you must possess a graduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field, preferably with a relevant professional qualification. A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in FP&A, business analysis, commercial finance, management reporting, or finance business partnering within a complex organization, working with senior business stakeholders, is necessary. Proven ability to deliver insightful performance reporting, planning support, financial analysis, and stakeholder-ready commentary that informs business decisions is essential. Experience working directly with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, demonstrating influence through insight, judgment, and commercial understanding, is also required. Fluency in spoken and written English, with the ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly, professionally, and with impact, is a must.