Finance Manager

Finance Manager, Cost and Capital

Your new role

The Manager role within the Cost & Capital finance team is your opportunity to drive insight and support transformative change to help shape the future of Global. This role focuses on workforce economics, cost optimisation and strategic finance partnering across the organisation. As a key driver of value creation, you’ll unlock strategic insights by building comprehensive data sets, analysing financial information, and optimizing costs to support decision-making that will propel Global to new heights over the next few years.

As a Finance Manager at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Finance Partner to the Executive Board and business, providing financial insight and challenge to support commercial decision-making

• Lead financial analysis of workforce economics and productivity, including evaluation of investment decisions, organisational design changes and productivity metrics

• Provide financial oversight and challenge of the business cost base to ensure spend aligns with business priorities and delivers strong value for money

• Support the budgeting and forecasting process with clear plans and measurable outcomes

• Partner with the Finance Director to support enterprise workforce planning and cost management, including headcount governance and workforce productivity analysis

• Partner with the business leadership and Procurement to identify and deliver efficiency opportunities and cost optimisation initiatives

• Support the Finance Director in the delivery of finance systems and process transformation initiatives, helping to improve the quality, automation and accessibility of financial insight across the organisation

• Develop clear financial reporting, dashboards and productivity metrics that provide senior leaders with actionable insight on cost, workforce productivity and investment decisions

• Lead or support ad hoc strategic projects and investment cases, providing robust financial analysis, modelling and insight to support executive decision making.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships with stakeholders across the business functions to ensure finance is positioned as a trusted partner in driving cost discipline and organisational efficiency

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Think Big: Work as strategic partner to the organisation, providing decision making support that shapes how the business grows

• Own It: Build robust financial models and insights that influence senior leaders and support critical organisational decisions

• Keep it Simple: Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insight and measurable actionable plans that drive better business outcomes

• Better Together: Partner with business leaders and cross functional teams, acting as trusted advisor and constructive challenger

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Developed a strong understanding of Global’s operating model, cost base and strategic priorities enabling you to quickly identify the key drivers of the business

• Established robust financial datasets and models to provide clear visibility of key performance metrics enabling more informed decision-making

• Translated financial performance data into clear actionable insights, helping senior leaders understand key drivers and opportunities to improve operational efficiency

• Built trusted relationships with the business leadership, becoming a go-to finance partner on cost, workforce and investment decisions

• Played a key role in shaping cost optimisation and transformation initiatives, supporting the design and delivery of programmes aimed at improving organisational efficiency

• Strengthened financial governance and insight around workforce and cost management, helping ensure resources are deployed in line with strategic priorities

What You’ll Need

• Financial modelling and analysis skills: The ability to synthesise complex data into clear recommendations

• Commercial acumen and analytical judgement: The ability to understand business drivers, challenge constructively, and see the bigger picture

• Ability to build trust and credibility; With senior stakeholders and confidently challenge to improve decision making

• Operating with Ambiguity and Uncertainty: Operating and comfortable navigating in these environments, with a focus on key outcomes

• Collaborative, outcome-focused mindset: Comfortable working across finance and business teams operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment

• Problem solving mindset: Applies structured thinking and commercial curiosity to identify opportunities and solve complex business problems

• Change and improvement mindset: Leads transformation initiatives and adept at identifying opportunities to optimise costs and improve operational efficiency