Senior Finance Business Partner

Department: Finance

Team: Finance Business Partnering (FBP)

Location: London (Hybrid)

Position type: 12 month contract (inside IR35)

What the hiring manager says

This is an opportunity to join the Finance team as an interim Senior Finance Business Partner.

The role reports to the Head of Finance Business Partnering (HoFBP) and will be the FBP lead for 3 key business areas – Membership, Marketing and Advocacy (“Connectivity for Good”) – working closely with the key stakeholders across those teams, to provide detailed, meaningful and value add support that will underpin decision making.

Claire Knapman, Head of Finance Business Partnering

About the Team

The Finance team is based in London with some regional staff and business partners located in Spain, USA Nairobi, Delhi and Shanghai. The FBP team is a team of 8, which includes 5 Senior FBPs (2 based in Barcelona), an interim Finance Reporting Analyst, a Procurement Manager and the Head of FBP.

About the Role

This role is key to the delivery of the financial business plan and our organisations objectives through the provision of strategic support, performance analysis, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, identification of risks and opportunities. The position provides the opportunity to work with teams across the whole business with a wide range of stakeholders at every level within the GSMA. The role reports into the Head of Finance Business Partnering and is key to the delivery of GSMA’s Membership and Mutual objectives which drive impact across the global Mobile Telecommunications industry.

Main tasks:

• You will deliver timely and accurate management information, supporting your stakeholders to manage their budgets effectively and prepare accurate forecasting.
• You will ensure that the business’s requirements are understood and clearly reflected and communicated in all reporting and analysis.
• You will report on performance and use influencing and stakeholder management skills to drive actions that facilitate successful delivery of business objectives. This will include providing analysis and advice on things such as cost drivers, KPIs and trends, whilst also considering potential financial impacts.
• You will be expected to support, challenge and influence the business in understanding the financial implications of key decisions, as well as proactively identifying financial risks, issues and opportunities for the business, along with potential solutions.
• You will be able to identify cost efficiency opportunities and provide support in executing, alongside the relevant stakeholders.
• You will have the opportunity to demonstrate financial experience and commercial acumen to ensure the GSMA achieves the best commercial outcomes in contract negotiations – limiting financial risk and protecting cashflow.
• You must ensure that the financial processes and controls are well understood and communicated whilst also monitoring compliance to ensure a robust financial control environment and consistency are maintained and providing guidance and training when needed.
• You will also get to work with the wider finance team, IT, Legal and People and Culture to drive continuous improvements in GSMA’s finance processes and systems.

About You

• You will have experience in Finance and be confident with P&L reporting and budgeting, as well as robust excel skills so you can accurately and efficiently deliver monthly analysis, tracking and reporting, supported with meaningful commentary.
• You will have strong stakeholder management skills, working closely with stakeholders to ensure they fully understand and own their numbers and are well positioned to prepare accurate forecasting and budgeting.
• You will be a natural problem solver and someone who is resourceful and enjoys looking for solutions to address challenges and identify inefficient ways of working.
• Experience with Workday and Workday reporting is a benefit.

About your Skills

The key skills for this role are:

• Analysis – essential to have a Finance background with experience of P&L reporting, budgeting and analysis, combined with solid excel financial modelling skills, confident working with large data sets and translating data into meaningful analysis, whilst also maintaining attention to detail.

• Stakeholder Management – must be a strong communicator and have excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, critical for partnering with leaders, budget owners, Finance colleagues and other stakeholders across the business.

• Delivery – important to be structured and organised in order to manage numerous budgets in parallel and ensure deadlines are met.

• Agility – critical for responding to business queries, being resourceful with the ability to use own initiative and consider things pragmatically.

• Innovation – valuable for problem solving and continuously looking for process improvement opportunities, particularly when new tools and resources become available.

We strive to offer a meaningful and inclusive application experience for all candidates. Should you require any accommodations or adjustments due to a disability or for any other reason during the hiring process, please contact [email protected] with your request.

Contract type

Worker type

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.