Platform Services Finance Partner - London, United Kingdom - NewDay

NewDay

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Permanent Full Time role in Finance.

Located in London - Hybrid.

Permanent Full Time

Finance

London - Hybrid

502307

Platform Services Finance Partner:

Specialist, Platform Services Finance Partner, Commercial Finance
Working at our iconic office in King's Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams

Your new role at NewDay

Part of a dynamic, outstanding team that partners with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business including the Platform Senior Leadership Team, Business Transformation, Technology and People Team.

Preparing management information and projections for the Platform services segment for the Platform Senior Management Team and supporting the monthly Platform Committee, leading the annual budgeting process, monthly / weekly forecasting and monitoring performance of Platform Services.

Driving key analysis and insight into the c.£100m per annum investment in Business Transformation & Technology for NewDay, partnering the Platform Business, along with the NewDay People Team, in terms of resource management.

You'll deliver
Financial Planning & Analysis

Accountable for the Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting process for Platform ensuring a cohesive planning cycle which informs and challenges the business in making key strategic decisions.

Provide finance support in preparing and reviewing Platform investment business cases, providing commercial acumen and challenge, ensuring that benefits are realisable.

Helping to support and track the 5-year strategic plan & embed it into the budget.

Key point of contact for the Business Transformation Director for all Change investment related analysis and requirements such as forecasts, change approval requests, S&B, external vendor support as well as representing Finance in all relevant Platform working groups.

Management reporting / insight & analysis

Accountable for a month end process which will support review; challenge and interpretation of all material variances against plan and prior year to ensure Platform SLT and the Group / Platform Finance team have a full understanding of the value drivers.

This then rolls into a regular in-year outlook process.
Prepare insightful and clear commentary to ensure the key messages are clearly articulated to senior management. Prepare reporting and analysis for Monthly Reviews, including deep dive analysis on KPIs, financial performance, key issues.
Systems & modelling
Develop and maintain Platform segment as a standalone module in Anaplan for pricing, forecasting and performance management.

Ensure Platform data is up to date and managed within Anaplan and that the system and modelling is continuously monitored, maintained and updated.

Adhoc Support
Support wider team on adhoc analysis across but not limited to Strategy, Business Development, Investor Relations, Deko partnering and Commercial analytics

What you'll bring

We need knowledge, experience + expertise in

Key financial principles, holding a recognised accountancy qualification or equivalent professional qualification

FP&A or Partnering role, working with functional and commercial teams to achieve results.
Presenting information in a clear and concise fashion to senior management.
Building financial forecasting models in Excel, using a logical and analytical approach.
Generating commercial insight from raw data.

And would love you to know or learn:

Partnering across businesses

Payments/platform technology
Financial Services

About NewDay
We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
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Our dynamic NewDay culture
We're focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working - with lots of open doors for development.

Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.

We invest in our colleagues.

On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role.

We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.

At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters:
You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you'll get extra days as you build your career with us.

NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday.

And when you're in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.
Our tax efficient gr