Senior Financial Modelling Manager

MITIE GROUP PLC ,
London, Greater London

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Company Description Mitie is the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, looking after a large, diverse, blue-chip customer base, from banks and retailers, to hospitals, schools and government offices. Mitie has over 49,000 people, 100+ office locations, and thousands of customers across the country, there's no limit to what you can achieve if you work for us. Job Description * Job title: Group FP&A - Senior Financial Modelling Manager * Advert opening date: 2 June 2020 * Advert closing date: 29 June 2020 * Salary: 80k-110k + discretionary bonus * Location of role: London, UK Job Description The financial modelling senior manager is responsible for all aspects of the Group's key long term planning, forecasting and cash flow budgeting processes. This role will not have any direct reports, so the candidate must be confident planning and delivering processes and outputs directly. The role, based in London, will report into the Group Director of Financial Planning & Analysis. The Group FP&A team manage the financial reporting and planning processes across the Group, to ensure that the Group is using all available financial and operational data to optimise decision making. The role provides key financial analysis for a wide range of stakeholders, including the Group executive management team, the Plc Board, Group finance functions, particularly Group Treasury, and Divisional senior management teams Duties: * Responsible for all aspects of the Group's key long term planning, forecasting and cash flow budgeting processes, including * Group five year strategic plan * Long term liquidity analysis, to support the Group going concern and viability statement * Goodwill impairment testing * Financing scenario analysis, including M&A modelling * Covid-19 business scenario planning & analysis * Developing working capital metrics reporting for group, divisions and strategic accounts including forecasting monthly run-rate targets to help influence actions and focus areas for year end targets. Automation of reports personalised for strategic accounts including historical, current and future performance. * Developing data visualisations for the purposes of presenting financial data in board reports, management reports and key external presentations including analyst presentations, capital markets and financing presentations. * Responsible for delivering the Group financial "Data Book" to the executive management team to support all financial data requirements for external reporting events (most typically full year and half year results and trading statements). * Develop and continuously improve the Group's KPI reporting; monitor and improve monthly KPI dashboards to highlight key trends within the business. * Preparation of presentations for executive management and Board meetings. * Provide performance analysis for the Group Investor relations and Group Strategy teams and answer ad hoc queries to support their activity and engagements with shareholders. This role is an opportunity for the candidate to work on a variety of different initiatives within a dynamic environment. The candidate will be expected to drive innovation within the team. The candidate will learn about a diverse range of facilities management services and will have exposure to senior executives across the organisation. The role will involve travel within the UK to various regional office locations, particularly Bristol. Qualifications Required Experience * Must have worked in a Facilities Management ("FM") business with revenue >1bn and diverse revenue streams across a number of different service lines / sectors. * Must have proven experience of leading and owning a financial long-term plan at a group-wide level for a large services business (Revenue >1bn), incorporating detailed monthly integrated Income Statement, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet. * Must have 5+ years proven experience of working in Big 4 accounting professional services firm (EY, PWC, Deloitte, KPMG), including direct experience of working within data analytics. * Must have proven experience of building complex models from scratch in a fast-changing finance environment with multiple sensitivity outputs to help plan against a diverse range of potential outcomes and scenario testing to understand planning pinch points. * Must have proven experience of working directly for executive management teams (CEO, CFO etc) with end to end responsibility for production and review of financial information being presented. * Clear and confident communicator who is able to demonstrate understanding of complex financial data and present insights and summary findings in clear and simple formats. Ability to make the 'complex' simple. Must be able to present complex models in a very simplified fashion to executive teams in a clear, balanced and understandable format. * Must be able to clearly demonstrate working with numerous (and not always consistent) sources of data to provide a