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

We seek a proactive, credible, and insight-driven finance professional capable of transforming financial, operational, and market data into compelling leadership narratives and actionable recommendations. You will apply discipline, sound judgment, and curiosity to support planning and forecasting, refine management information, detect performance trends, and facilitate timely, evidence-based decision-making.

Serve as a primary finance partner and point of contact for designated Service Line, Markets, or CBS leadership teams, delivering insights that link financial results to commercial, operational, and strategic performance indicators.

Produce high-quality weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reports and insights. Ensure outputs are accurate, concise, action-oriented, and tailored to the decisions leadership needs to make.

Support planning, forecasting, and budgeting by translating business strategy, market context, and operational assumptions into robust financial plans and practical performance targets.

Analyze trends in revenue, margin, cost, pipeline, backlog, wins, losses, utilization, and productivity to highlight critical risks, opportunities, and necessary corrective actions.

Provide scenario modeling and option analysis to support leadership decisions, clearly articulating assumptions, sensitivities, trade-offs, risks, and recommended actions.

Collaborate with Finance colleagues to enhance reporting solutions, automate repetitive tasks, improve data quality, and increase the utility of management information.

Prepare and contribute to leadership presentations and performance reviews, using clear storytelling to convert complex financial and operational data into decision-ready insights.

Address ad hoc leadership requests with practical, commercially relevant analysis that balances speed, accuracy, and sound judgment.

Identify recurring performance themes, process deficiencies, and data quality issues, recommending improvements and supporting the implementation of agreed actions across Finance and the business.

Mentor and support junior colleagues and peers by sharing knowledge, modeling effective business partnering behaviors, and contributing to a higher-performing finance capability.

Success in this role demands a commercially astute finance professional skilled at translating complex financial, operational, and market data into clear insights, practical recommendations, and confident leadership discussions.

Key strengths include strong FP&A, financial analysis, and performance management capabilities, with the ability to connect results to business drivers, risks, and opportunities. Executive communication skills are essential for translating intricate data into clear narratives, concise commentary, and decision-ready presentations.

Demonstrate commercial curiosity and judgment to grasp market context, service line priorities, operational levers, and the actions needed for performance improvement. Earn credibility to engage senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and influence effectively through evidence-based insights.

Possess strong technical proficiency across modeling, reporting, and analytical tools, coupled with a proactive mindset towards automation, simplification, and continuous improvement. Be comfortable operating within a fast-paced, matrixed, and global environment, adept at managing ambiguity, competing priorities, and diverse stakeholder needs.

Exhibit a collaborative, ownership-driven style, fostering trusted relationships across Finance, Reporting CoE, GDS, and business leadership teams.

To qualify, candidates 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 is required in FP&A, business analysis, commercial finance, management reporting, or finance business partnering within a complex organization, working closely with senior business stakeholders.

Proven ability to deliver performance reporting, planning support, financial analysis, and stakeholder-ready commentary that informs business decisions. Experience working directly with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, with demonstrated success in influencing through insight, judgment, and commercial understanding.

Excellent spoken and written English proficiency is essential, enabling the clear, professional, and impactful communication of complex financial matters.