Associate, UK Mobility Finance

In this role based out of London (UK), you will be supporting the UK Mobility business and working closely together with the UK management team.

You will have a direct ability to impact the success and the trajectory of the business through your work that will cover short- and longer term forecasting, performance deepdives, analysis to support strategic decision making and, various projects aimed at improving the performance of the business. You will be in a unique position, which will enable you to connect the dots across various dimensions of the business, generating insights others might not be able to make.

If you're ready to go deep working on a rewarding set of challenges and if you've got the finance skills, passion, and a strong team mentality - read on and get in touch!

What You'll Do

• Financial planning and analysis: work closely with the finance organization and with regional business leaders to develop financial forecasts and goals, apply business judgment and financial insights to help with decision making;


• Sophisticated financial modeling: build models from scratch, improve existing models, and assemble business reality/dynamics and interactions into comprehensive models and demonstrate those to assess trade-offs, propose solutions and drive better decision making;


• Think strategically and implement: the models we build aid in decision making and strategy - we operationalize our insights and support everyday execution;


• Monthly close: report and analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and build/discuss potential action plans with cross-functional customers;


• Operational improvement: help optimize our planning processes and ensure finance the best methodologies spread through the organization. Work with accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understand our actuals;


• Innovate: we will push the boundaries beyond traditional forecasting. Be creative, adaptive, and eager to learn new technical abilities;


• Special projects: new initiatives always come up, you will have the chance to give beyond regular modelling.
  
  Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or Economics highly preferred;


• 3 to 5 years in Investment Banking, Corporate finance, Corporate Development/M&A or operational FP&A role at either a high-growth company or a large, well-established organization;


• Strong Financial Modelling skills: standard methodologies are second-nature, your models are efficient, scalable and intuitive;


• Excellent communication and people skills: numbers are key, but a business is built with people;


• Self-starter: You will take initiative and drive toward goals;


• Attention to detail: consistent with swift and high quality execution. We do things quickly, and we need to do them well., Passionate about financial modelling;


• Systems: understanding of enterprise-level financial planning systems such as IBM Cognos TM1;


• Shown comprehension of US GAAP;


• SQL skills: the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective;


• CFA or CPA.