Junior Finance Business Partner - London, United Kingdom - WPP

WPP

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.**
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations - from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 317 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive.

WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shifting to cloud-first based service for our infrastructure, introducing zero-trust networks and continuing to roll-out our real estate-led Campus consolidation strategy to give our clients and people the very best experience of what WPP has to offer.

As we progress on this journey, finance plays a critical partnership role to ensure we deliver an effective transformation by steering our organisation through a challenging time moving from a single outsourced provider for our IT, to a multi-partner environment over the next few years.

This will involve expert financial, commercial, and operational skills as you act as the strategic advisor and business partner a department Director to achieve this.

You will act as the go-to finance business partner for Service Now Director and their Leadership team. This will involve frequent interaction with the business's programme and project leads.

This will also include among other items, preparing the journals to ensure a smooth month-end process, helping to prepare the annual budget and quarterly re-forecasting of it.

What you'll be doing:

Junior Finance Business Partner to a WPP IT department Director providing insight and financial management of the cost base of that team both in a BAU aspect and projects.
Accountable for assisting the FBP with the financial forecasting, planning, and reporting of these key programmes, working closely with both our broader IT Transformation programmes but also the WPP Shared Service strategy.
Assisting the FBP preparing the quarterly reforecasts of the annual budget through setpiece meetings with key stakeholders inside and outside of the finance team. In addition, working with FP&A and other Finance Business Partners develop the monthly rolling forecast process. Communicating the budgets to key stakeholders, tracking spend vs budget.
Build key relationships with the programme teams.
Improve data quality, insight, and economic drivers to identify opportunities for efficiency, cost reduction, with particular focus on TCO of ERP platforms globally.
Define and manage the financial analysis insights and key reports to inform strategic decision making and delivery of business value / outcomes.
Steward, lead and partner with the business, to ensure all business activities are carried out in accordance with, and in the spirit of, local legislative requirements, to enhance and protect value for the short and long term.
Providing support to Commercial Services, Application Development and Finance teams across key WPP contracts, including supporting the RFP process.
To Review of business cases (Project Work Orders) to ensure contractual adherence and cost management.
Operate in a highly complex environment with very high risk (potential financial or commercial impact, OpCo and Group level visibility, potential reputational impact).

What you'll need:

Excellent communicator with a track record of operating, partnering with and influencing stakeholders, including nonfinancial teams
Collaborative approach with a focus on business and client needs.
Ability to operate in a fastpaced organisational transformation and is comfortable navigating organisational / geographical complexity, across different functions (Operational, Commercial and Group Finance).
Tenacity, whilst acting with high integrity and strong ethics.
Management reporting and decision support.
Ability to manage pressure and execute critical decision making as well as being selfmotivating whilst operating in an ambiguous environment.
Dataled approach to solving problems, driving new insights and identifying value opportunities.
Strong Organisational and prioritisation skills.
Experience within an IT / technology environment would be an advantage.
Financial modelling experience a