Asset Management - Expense Planning and Analysis - Vice President

J.P. Morgan; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a Vice President in Financial Planning & Analysis to manage expense and headcount reporting. The role involves budgeting, forecasting, and providing strategic financial analysis to senior management. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and relevant experience in Financial Services. Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel are essential. This position offers a dynamic work environment in the City of London.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience in Financial Services or accounting/controller background.
• Integrity in handling sensitive information.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management.

Responsibilities

• Budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and analysis of expenses and headcount.
• Developing financial business cases for business initiatives.
• Conducting variance analysis and presenting findings to management.
• Creating performance metrics and financial reports.

Skills

Advanced skills in Excel

PowerPoint

Anaplan

Strong verbal communication

Strong written communication

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a technical subject

Job description

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team is responsible for partnering across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. Our FP&A teams are responsible for a wide range of activities including financial control, forecasting and budgeting, analysis of financial/business metrics, delivery of weekly/monthly/quarterly management reporting, development of new reporting capabilities (e.g. dashboards), and advising the line of business CFOs on how to increase profitability and efficiencies.

As an Expense Planning & Analysis Vice President in the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team, you will be responsible for expense and headcount management, where you will be expected to deliver value-added financial reporting and analysis, and assist with strategic direction and decision making. You will be expected to provide leadership across the FP&A teams, and interact regularly with the FP&A Managers, the line of business CFOs and peers across Finance & Business Management and the business.

Job responsibilities:

• Budgeting, reporting, forecasting and analysis of expense and headcount.
• Reporting efficiency, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics.
• Creating financial business cases supporting business initiatives.
• Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of expense related topics to senior management.
• Oversight of the process to deliver month-end results, the forecast for the remainder of the year, and the budget for future years.
• Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to FP&A managers and line of business CFOs explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets.
• Helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management.
• Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible.
  

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature.
• Relevant work experience, preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background.
• Advanced skills in Excel, PowerPoint and Anaplan.
• Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly.
• Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Integrity in handling highly sensitive and confidential information.
• Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely.