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Job Title: Finance Business Partner Analyst - Strategic Projects  

Location: London, Grays Inn Road
Full time/Permanent/Hybrid

About the Project/Role

This is an exciting role reporting directly to Finance Business Partner for Strategic Projects; Pivotal role of this function is to assist in financial management of central strategic projects focused on investments in new commercial services across the whole Kantar Media Group. Providing insight, strategic support, and analysis to the business to enable them to take informed decisions and actions that drive the best financial outcomes in terms of:

• Profitable growth and EBITDA
• Greater emphasis on working capital and cashflow
• Improved robust balance sheet management
• Data driven decision making

Job Role Requirements

Deliver on Strategic Projects - Investments, business case and accounting for new projects

• Assist the FBP on the build and modification of business cases, liaising with Global Product, IT and Operations
• Develop understanding of forecast process; tracking of current spend/performance vs estimated
• Support annual audit process on carrying value for intangible assets where needed
• Work with business teams to resolve issues and mitigate risk, particularly around overspend
• Adherence to all Kantar Media Policies and best practice across all divisions

Support costing and pricing of larger project tenders

• Support FBP jointly with Central, Regional and Global teams in delivering robust cost models; ensuring the solution aligns with costing proposals, suited pricing strategies and Media’s up to date business structure
• Help ensure specifics of key metrics e.g. P&L and ROI are clear and ready for presentation to management
• For successful projects, clear communication to all stakeholders and coordination between various central teams on projected and actual costs/ recharges

 Other

• Collaborate with FBP to classify and quantify risks by providing reliable, comparable, and timely information.
• Point of contact for the business on day-to-day queries, including PO and job creation
• Supporting annual audit process and queries from Group auditors
• Supporting the FBPs in business trend analysis and KPIs on ad hoc queries

Candidate Requirements

Essential

• Semi Qualified (CIMA/ACCA) with +3 years’ experience working in a finance role
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Office 365, modelling
• Data, trend and analysis oriented; can provide insightful insights and identify possible risks
• Able to productively collaborate with both management and peers
• Skilled communicator, ability to coordinate and communicate with separate teams at various levels

Desirable

• Operated in complex business matrix model of similar size and scale, preferably in a similar industry
• Inclination to work in an ambiguous situation where self-starting, independent and inferential work is needed
• Fully Qualified - CIMA/ACCA or equivalent financial qualification

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients.  Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration.  We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

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