About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most. 

Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers. 

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Why you should be@GBG

• We make the world a safer place
• We trust each other and win together
• We are local experts in a global business
• We want you to be yourself
• We grow when you grow

The Team

Our finance team is central to the success of the business. Our aim is to proactively drive business value through informed and insightful decision making. We work in partnership with the business and are agile and responsive to business needs whilst maintaining a transparent system of effective standards, processes and controls. To support this goal we strive to have the best highly engaged finance professionals in our team. We’re on an exciting journey, and we have the strategies in place to get us to our destination.

The role

This role reports to the Head of FP&A and will support finance business partnering to senior management across GBG’s Central Services functions (i.e. Technology, Finance, People, Marketing, etc.), as well as their management teams. Finance Business Partners provide solution-focused, professional advice and guidance to the organization to ensure financial risk is mitigated and financial opportunity is taken in order to enable innovation and allow commercialism to flourish.

Whilst there is an emphasis on cost management and continually improving reporting and business insights, the role includes supporting projects, new business initiatives, preparing informative commentary for monthly flash and management accounts, working on budgets and forecasts, and analysing allocations.

This role will have full ownership of Finance BP support for central and enabling functions across the group, which will include: People Team, Facilities, Finance, Legal & risk, Governance, Group Marketing, Executive and Corporate Comms. The role will also work closely with the Finance BP with responsibility for Technology and Product, offering support and cover as needed.

This is a perfect opportunity to build on existing skills and experiences and will allow the individual to develop their commercial partnering skills and experience alongside a highly respected and talented and supportive team.

What you will do

You will:

• Finance BP ownership for central and enabling functions as noted above.
• Have Finance BP responsibility for GBG’s Impact – this would include measurement/reporting of current ESG key metrics, as well as building a more comprehensive picture of non-finance KPIs (fraud detected, under-age persons protected, failed deliveries prevented, new lines of code written, office attendance, miles traveled, training hours deployed, charitable hours donated etc)
• Have responsibility for the overview of People data used within Finance – vacancies, leavers, joiners, transfers, and pay review process.
• Be responsible (together with FP&A Manager) for monitoring and improving data quality in our transaction recording – e.g. sectors, customers, geography
• Constant focus on driving efficiency in our reporting and partnering, utilising new technologies as appropriate.
• Potential for involvement in Finance Projects
• Prepare and present cost and headcount management information and insights for multiple support functions, working with various software tools available to us to develop and deliver self-serve dashboards
• Working with the Finance Operations team to ensure the integrity of the month-end P&L, support the monthly forecasting processes and supply accrual data where required.
• Build a strong rapport with the function stakeholders and become a key member of the business partnering team to support the financial decision-making process.
• Assisting with the budgeting and forecasting for multiple functions, and monitor material changes for the rolling forecast
• Analyze headcount and work with People Team and the functions to ensure the monthly numbers are correctly reported and forecast.
• Support the review and update of the function cost allocations as required and complete an annual signoff with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Support the senior FBP in partnering with procurement on the financials of new contracts and renewals and be a purchase order approver for designated cost areas.
• Supporting the wider FBP team on ad-hoc projects and analysis where required.

Requirements

• Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA).
• Attention to detail and a strong understanding of financial control.
• Strong planning and analytical skills capability and experience.
• Solid business and commercial acumen.
• Demonstrable interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for building successful relationships within the business environment.
• Experience in thinking around problems, identifying, and then implementing solutions.
• Ability and flexibility to plan, organize, and prioritize workloads to achieve pre-determined deadlines with ad hoc requests.
• Strong IT system orientation including, Excel, Word, PowerPoint skills and experience in financial modeling. Knowledge of Power BI will be beneficial.
• Ability and confidence to influence and provide challenges to the business, driving change where required.
• Excellent communicator, capable of delivering concise and compelling messages to senior audiences effectively through the chosen business language of English.
• Confident and self-motivated with a flexible approach to work.

Benefits

We have a vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.

As part of our commitment to our team and flexible working approach, we have created a Work When and Where You Want Policy to give our team members choice and empowerment, and to support a balance in work and home life. Please ask your Talent Attraction Specialist for more information on this and our Family Friendly policy if you want to find out more!

Next steps

We have a vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.

Click here to see more about what’s important to us, including our flexible working policy, our commitment to ESG, I&D and much more.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits, drop an email to (email address removed) and we’ll be in touch!

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