Finance Business Partner Analyst

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Job Details

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

About the role

The Finance Business Partner Analyst will report directly to ANZ Finance Director with daily interactions with executive & managing directors in the local Divisions across the ANZ business.

The role supports the ANZ Finance Director to shape decisions, exploits opportunities and delivers outcome to the business providing insight, challenge, 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
• Data driven decision making
• Greater emphasis on working capital (through client Billings & Collection)
• Proactive job management in collaboration with the business owners
• Better rigor through forward looking views improving transparency and predictability
• Better budgetary management on the job cost base

Key Responsibilities:

Understanding the business, shaping and managing performance and business reporting

• Financial Data Collection: Gather and organize financial data for analysis and reporting.
• Service Evaluation: Provide insights and recommendations on job or contract performance to improve revenue and margins.
• Cost Management: Champion cost control and drive a cost-conscious culture.
• Financial Trend Analysis: Analyse financial trends to support strategy and decision-making.
• KPI Monitoring: Define and drive the use of business KPIs to monitor performance and recommend actions.
• Risk & Profitability Insights: Highlight risks, provide profitability insights, and recommend interventions for performance variances.
• Monthly Performance & Forecasting: Work with the ANZ Financial Controller to understand monthly performance, develop forecasts, and present financial overviews.

Delivering and supporting business strategy and leading the Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting process

• Support senior leadership forming a strategic response and providing actionable insights from changing internal / external factors
• Work with the business and facilitate business input into the budgeting and forecasting process - gather business input and create first drafts of budgets and forecasts and capital plans
• Retain ownership of salaries, bonus and commission schemes, including measurement of achievement through Workday
• Work with reward team to set relevant standard KPI’s for bonus and commission schemes

Shaping decisions, exploiting opportunities and delivering outcomes to the business

• Support in strategic account management and planning
• Contribute to setting local market pricing strategies including rate cards, cost rates and new offer
• Provide input into ‘Must-Win’ Bids/ renewals for Global/ local RFP responses
• Participate in negotiations and where appropriate review commercials elements in Contracts and Master Service Agreements eg non-compete, exclusivity including cost and pricing modelling for scenarios, suppliers, commercial T & Cs based on delegated approvals (payment terms, rates, discounts, billing etc. ensuring compliance to Kantar legal and commercial policies)
• Participate in RFP pitches and support the negotiation strategy - including in sourcing and reviewing costs, competitive benchmarking and RFP schedules
• Run preliminary rate card scenario calculations and restatements
• Consult with strategic pricing support
• Sponsor and deliver training across the business to improve commercial acumen

Role Requirements:

• Good interpersonal skills
• Commercial mindset/ business orientation
• Credibility and integrity to build trust and influence
• Dynamic approach to risk
• Understanding the internal/ external business drivers
• Proven experience as a finance business partner, commercial finance or business analysis role
• Independent thinker with ability to manage conflicting priorities and stakeholders
• Strong communication skills
• Experience operating in a matrix business model is desirable
• Track record of driving change and business adoption in a fast-moving environment is advantageous
• Minimum 7 Years Experience, preferably in FP & A.
• A firm understanding of financial statements including P & L, cash flow, and balance sheets.
• Accounting Degree/CPA Equivalent
• Adept at financial modelling, with excellent Excel/PBI skills for data analysis and interpretation.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Location

Auckland, Sale StreetNew Zealand

Kantar Rewards Statement

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 also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 

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 well being 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. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.