Strategic Finance Consultant

Job Description
Strategic Finance team’s core purpose is to help the business make better decisions.

• Deliver insight that elevates performance
• Inform and challenge decisions to unlock opportunity and
• Tell a clear, trusted story to our investors and stakeholders

• Deliver insight that elevates performance
• Inform and challenge decisions to unlock opportunity and
• Tell a clear, trusted story to our investors and stakeholders

The team are focused on project activity, detailed work, and modelling to support the following pillars

• Understanding our history from FY21 onwards with deeper focus on FY23+
• Influence current performance and plans
• Data based decisions
• Lead project to move Customer data to the Data Lake

• Understand drivers and predict performance
• Predictions based on data and trends
• Sell side model & Revenue model – to support transactions
• Shape models – to set targets for 5-year plan
• Cost model

• Support development of messaging and MI
• Finance point of contact with investors
• M&A – activity to support transactions
• Partnering to strategy Director
• Partnering with HPS

Help to ensure team are recognised for strong insight, compelling storytelling and driving the business to make better decisions.

The team propose and prioritise activity. Typically, this is project work from short to longer term. We use a backlog system. The strategic finance consultant will propose activity to add to backlog and help prioritise activity.

Working independently and with teams, as necessary for delivery.
Often collaborating with colleagues inside and outside Finance to deliver results together.
With Strategic Finance known for ensuring there is clarity of requirements and for injecting pace to delivery.
Team have completed a 6-month project to organise historic data – we are now at the point of translating this data into insight for planning and performance and to help tell the story of the Group. The senior consultant will take a lead in delivering value from this project.
The role will require design and build of models and analysis of actuals and plans to help management optimise performance and plans.
Role has significant ad-hoc nature to respond to queries from investors, CFO and key stakeholders and consultant will assist in the response to these requirements.
The team are sponsor to a project to move Commercial Data and Operational into the data lake. This offers the opportunity to transform Finance data and insight. Creating new capabilities. Consider all opportunities to drive value from data. And lead and support work to improve performance. Particularly using the operational data to drive insight and improve driver based planning.
Assist in investigation and projects to deliver value to the organisation from AI. Another opportunity to transform finance capability. Adopt a curious mindset and think where AI can help and improve or tune current processes and thinking.

• Drive value and insight from data collected
• Assist and manage collation and preparation of internal data for business use in formats which can also be used for due diligence M&A activity
• Enhance Finance challenge and review of Business plans. Taking ownership for review and challenge of sections of the plan
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure clarity around performance metrics and investor reporting
• Contribute to the establishment of a new strategic finance team structure
• Design and build models and analysis of actuals and plans to help management optimise performance and plans. Bringing insight to help the business make better decisions
• Lead and assist on…