Business Partner/FP&A Analyst

Tindall Riley; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

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Job Details: Business Partner/FP&A Analyst

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Vacancy Name

Vacancy Name Business Partner/FP&A Analyst

Vacancy No

Vacancy No VN370

Employment Type

Employment Type Full-Time

Location

Location London

About Us

About Us Our Mission

Happy, healthy pets, make for happy, healthy people.

We aim to strengthen the unique bond between pets and their parents through our innovative products and services, enabled by brilliant colleagues who embody our values of performance, exploration, togetherness, and sustainability.

Our Journey

In 2016 we set out to focus entirely on pet insurance with pets and families at the centre of our business strategy and in 2017 launched a new brand, EveryPaw.

To offer our customers a choice of insurance options for their pets, we also focussed on finding the right partners to support our growth ambition and our first big partnerships with Sainsbury and Argos, went live in 2019.

Many talented colleagues have joined us, and we now partner with a number of fantastic brands across the retail, charity and financial services sectors. We’ve developed new capabilities, new platforms and new services specifically for our partners to achieve the best customer experience. Over the last 6 years, the number of pet parents we support has grown five-fold to over half a million in 2023. Together we’ve built the leading Pet Partnership business in the UK and are proud to support and engage pet parents every day to ensure happy and healthy pets.

Our ambition

We’re delivering long-term success and growth through empowerment and strong collaboration focusing on our two own brands; EveryPaw and Pet Protect and building great relationships with our partners to provide market leading products, innovative new services, simplicity and a great customer experience. Our goal is to support over 1 million pet parents by the end of 2026.

Pinnacle Pet UK provides great opportunities for those who love pets, want to learn, be challenged and develop. As a team, we are focused on performance and great customer outcomes. We support each other to achieve our individual and collective goals and have a culture where everyone can be authentic, diverse and innovative and truly be the best version of themselves supporting what we do best – pets.

This role is a key position within the PPG Finance department based in Paddington, London broadly focussing on:

• Business partnering for IT projects and other Transversal leads,
• Expense analysis, and;
• Assisting the Group Head of FP&A and Transversal leads with budget, forecasts and monthly reporting.

This role will support the Transversal leads on their expense analysis on monthly basis and work closely with the Group Head of FP&A on all their objectives, including, understanding of group entity performance, budgets and forecasts.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing analysis and commentary to the Group Head of FP&A and Transversal leads (budget holders) on overheads monthly.
• Performing analysis on monthly recharges for intra-group companies
• Producing monthly expense packs and supporting analysis
• Leading the reduction of processing times for monthly and quarterly reporting through utilisation of the GL expense module and analytical tools to migrate from Excel based reporting.
• Working closely with the Sponsor and project lead, providing support and guidance through period of project including a summarised 1 pager to the Group CFO on project statuses vs budget
• Provide advice in forecasting annual budget process (4 years ahead) to Transversal leads.
• Assist with the implementation of the new interim FP&A tool.
• Performing detailed and accurate forecasting and analysis of expenses.
• Ensure all relevant procedures are reviewed within a 12-month cycle.
• Circulate final expense budgets to all budget holders once finalised as part of the budget process.
• To act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers whilst delivering a higher standard of customer care and enabling consumers to make effective decisions in their interests.

Successful Candidates Will Have

• Organised.
• Good prioritisation and ability to hit tight deadlines.
• Honesty and discretion.

Person Specification

• Excel to an intermediate level.
• Previous experience in management accounting and control, expense analysis and forecasting.
• Excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Good problem solving skills, time management and attention to detail. 
• Excel to an advanced level.
• Previous experience using Vena would be advantageous.

Key skills

• Good attention to detail.
• Organised.
• Good prioritisation and ability to hit tight deadlines.
• Honesty and discretion.

Person Specification

Essential
 

• Excel to an intermediate level.
• Previous experience in management accounting and control, expense analysis and forecasting.
• Excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Good problem solving skills, time management and attention to detail. 

Desirable

• Excel to an advanced level.
• Previous experience using Vena would be advantageous.

Required Qualifications;

Essential
 

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) - newly qualified and those awaiting final results are acceptable.

Desirable
 

• A Financial Degree and a professional qualification