FP&A Business Partner

MCKESSON; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ClarusONE Sourcing Services, LLP, jointly formed by McKesson Corporation and Walmart Stores Inc, is seeking a Senior FP&A professional in London to lead dynamic planning, provide actionable financial insight, and partner member teams to maximise value opportunities.

You will forecast performance, manage planning timetables, and deliver insight-driven reports while driving improvements in forecasting and budgeting.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Qualified accountant (e.g. CIMA, ACCA, ACA) or equivalent qualification/experience.
• 4+ years commercial experience including business planning and analysis and business partnering.
• Ability to communicate complex financial issues to non-financial stakeholders and influence decision making
• Experience of analysing complex business information and communicating it to management.
• Highly motivated self-starter: ability to initiate and manage work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and experience.
• Time management, including ability to organise and prioritise work to consistently meet critical and/or conflicting daily deadlines while ensuring the highest level of accuracy.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and acumen.
• Comfortable in the detail whilst being able to stand back and appreciate the bigger picture.
• Ability to develop working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills required

Responsibilities

• Forecast in-year performance vs. targets and prior versions.
• Own ClarusONE planning timetables and communicate stakeholder requirements.
• Generate stakeholder-fed, insight-driven plans for in-year management reporting.
• Monthly, quarterly and annual insight-driven reporting of value performance for the member.
• Identify and manage risks & opportunities with required actions.
• Develop forecasting, budgeting and reporting processes with best practices and new tech.
• Model commercial scenarios to assess value contributions.
• Develop value insights across member value and spend.
• Identify & deliver value opportunities with market economics in mind.
• Partner with member financial and operational teams.
• Investigate value-based queries across ClarusONE and member teams.
• Maintain alignment to strategic goals and assist with analysis.

Job description

ClarusONE Sourcing Services, LLP, is a joint venture created in 2016 by McKesson Corporation and Walmart Stores Inc to provide strategic sourcing services in generic medicines for both companies (“Members”).

We’re headquartered in London, and pride ourselves on our can-do attitude that ensures we deliver our mission to enable access to affordable medicines for US patients.

Walmart and McKesson, two of the top 10 biggest corporations in the USA (Fortune 500) have more than two decades of history working together to improve the quality and lower the cost of pharmaceutical care to patients by leveraging McKesson’s strength and expertise in global pharmaceutical sourcing and Walmart’s strength and commitment to delivering leading health and wellness services to their customers.

The environment in which ClarusONE operates requires the organisation to constantly adapt, seeking greater efficiency in how we work through improved processes, data and insight led decision-making, technology innovation and new ways of working.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Senior FP&A Manager, you will be responsible for the dynamic planning of and providing actionable insight through reporting of our financial performance. You will be responsible for partnering ClarusONE member focused teams and relevant teams and stakeholders in our member organisations.

You will exhibit creativity and commercial acumen when valuing and prioritising potential innovations. As your work will support change and initiatives, you will be comfortable finding the data and designing the reports to measure their success. You will have an integral role delivering our strategy, working closely with our sourcing specialists to ensure that value opportunities are maximised and we meet our goals. You are a leader in the business and will be a role model to the team, demonstrating ClarusONE values and supporting others where needed.

What You'll Do:

Best in Class FP&A

• Regular forecasting of in year performance vs. targets, previous versions, and over time.
• Ownership of ClarusONE planning timetables in line with member requirements, communicating with clarity the requirements of all stakeholders and maintaining deadlines.
• Generating stakeholder fed, insight driven plans which enable effective in year actionable management reporting.
• Monthly, quarterly and annual insight driven and actionable reporting of ClarusONE’s value performance for the member.
• Identification and management of business and performance risks & opportunities including managing action and stakeholder involvement required to close.
• Ongoing development and improvement of forecasting, budgeting and reporting processes to maintain best practice and use of advancing technologies

Value Generation

• Scenario modelling of commercial scenarios with multiple impacting factors identifying various scenarios of value contribution supporting commercial and member team proposals.
• Development of value insight & analysis across all areas of member value & spend, understanding and monitoring value triggers, levers and detractors, and market insights.
• Identification & delivery of commercial & strategic value opportunities for our members (with clarity on member and market economics).

Strategic Business Partnering

• Business partnering ClarusONE member focused teams and member financial and operational teams.
• Investigation and resolution of value-based queries from across ClarusONE and member teams.
• Maintaining insight and alignment to ClarusONE strategic goals and initiatives. Supporting with analysis and modelling where necessary.

Basic Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Qualified accountant (e.g. CIMA, ACCA, ACA) or equivalent qualification/experience.
• 4+ years commercial experience including business planning and analysis and business partnering.
• Ability to communicate complex financial issues to non-financial stakeholders and influence decision making
• Experience of analysing complex business information and communicating it to management.
• Highly motivated self-starter: ability to initiate and manage work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and experience.
• Time management, including ability to organise and prioritise work to consistently meet critical and/or conflicting daily deadlines while ensuring the highest level of accuracy.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and acumen.
• Comfortable in the detail whilst being able to stand back and appreciate the bigger picture.
• Ability to develop working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills required

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience in visualisation techniques and tools advantageous (ThoughtSpot, Tableau & Alteryx an advantage).
• Prior experience with sourcing or procurement related finance functions an advantage

Physical Requirements:

• Candidate MUST reside within a commutable distance to London, GBR.
• Will be required to be onsite 2-3 days per week (subject to more depending on business need).
• Will be required to travel internationally to the USA. Passport required for international travel.