FP&A Analyst

Brunswick seeks to appoint an FP&A Analyst, UK/Europe. The principal objective of this role is to provide timely, accurate and relevant analysis/insights to help track performance, enable great decision making and strategic interventions to ultimately help shape and drive growth for the business globally.

This role, based in London but working across both UK and Continental Europe, sits within the global Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, a business partnering team, with members in London, Hong Kong and the USA that advises on key financial information to client-facing colleagues and senior leadership.

The successful candidate will have a background in consulting and/or an in-house analytical role, with extensive experience of working with financial data to analyse business performance and the underlying drivers to generate insightful analytics and reporting. Candidates should be able to point to examples of where their analysis has delivered impactful outcomes.

The successful candidate will play a central role in developing, coordinating and delivering impactful value-adding analysis and reporting for the business globally. Liaising with a range of business stakeholders, including the leadership team, the Growth & Performance team, our Partners and Core Services functions.

The FP&A team is responsible for analysing and presenting data in a way that is impactful for stakeholders to inform business decisions and guiding conversations with business leaders to facilitate a greater understanding of the revenue and recovery data that is relevant to themselves, their sector or practice group. The team will also listen to the needs of users and working with the Power BI infrastructure team to design and improve reporting dashboards, report to the business globally on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

• Creation and development of insightful and impactful reporting, including regular packs for the leadership team
• Work with the FP&A team globally to ensure reporting is aligned with the strategy of the firm and leadership’s objectives
• Ensure FP&A reporting is designed and evolves to surface opportunities to improve performance and drive growth
• Advocate and demonstrate the value of analysing internal data
• Carry out detailed analysis that drills down into the underlying drivers of business performance and be able to explain this to non-financial stakeholders
• As appropriate, work with stakeholders to interpret analysis/findings and devise strategies to address issues and opportunities
• Support the technical implementation and roll‑out of new reporting dashboards on Power BI
• Ad-hoc data requests from across the business to aid the business‑as‑usual processes for different functions

• Minimum 3+ years’ professional experience in a strategic analysis focussed role
• Analytical experience/capabilities
• Strong financial and commercial acumen
• Highly proficient and self-sufficient in data analysis and financial modelling
• Experience running analysis across multiple business functions (e.g. finance, marketing, HR)
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple work streams and multitask in high-pressure situations
• Shows a keen passion and sense of urgency regarding reaching objectives and a successful outcome
• Strong problem‑solving skills, and ability to think creatively
• Advanced Excel skills with experience of working with large volumes of data
• Good familiarity with reporting tools, specifically Power BI is beneficial
• Experience of working within a professional services organisation would be advantageous
• Resilient and enthusiastic team player with strong self‑motivation and a hands‑on, collaborative nature
• Ability to pay close attention to detail and review own work…