FP&A Manager/Project Analyst

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Marsh McLennan is seeking candidates for the following position based in the London office:

Job Title: FP&A Manager / Project Analyst

What can you expect?

• The opportunity to work closely with the CFO for Marsh Global and UKI Specialties on a wide range of financial reporting and other projects.
• The opportunity to work on both global and UK-focused projects and with global and UK stakeholders within Marsh, giving you a wide range of exposure across the company.

What you will be rewarded with?

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients, and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, benefits, and rewards to enhance your well-being.

We will rely on you to:

• Provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analysis, reports, insights, and recommendations.
• Foster appropriate interaction with the business to help achieve goals such as growth, productivity, and profit improvement.
• Lead and contribute to finance projects, including process improvements, system implementations, and automation initiatives.
• Develop and direct the implementation of strategic business and operational plans, projects, programs, and systems, focusing on finance and technology solutions.
• Coordinate the collation of financial information, working with other Finance colleagues, to assist the CFO and team in managing the business unit.
• Provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior management, including accurate, timely, and insightful analyses of key projects in the business unit.
• Ensure the business receives robust KPIs to run the business, including coordinating the collection of performance indicators, highlighting trends, and analysing causes of variances to budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Design and build technology solutions to enhance financial reporting, analysis, and decision-making processes.
• Create meaningful and impactful presentations using PowerPoint to effectively communicate financial insights, project updates, and strategic recommendations.

What you need to have:

• Qualified accountant with significant experience working in a large, matrixed organisation.
• Strong financial analysis skills and experience in presenting financial results and forecasts to senior executives.
• Experience in running a business budgeting process and conducting client-level analytical challenges.
• Familiarity with finance change and transformational initiatives, including system implementations and process improvements.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, with a focus on building meaningful presentations.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience with Oracle Financials or similar tools is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with technology solutions such as PowerBI, data visualization, and automation tools.
• Experience within a financial/professional services firm, particularly a broking firm.

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Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy, and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to providing reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities.

We support hybrid work, including remote work and in-office collaboration, with colleagues expected to work onsite at least three days per week. Office teams will identify an “anchor day” for in-person collaboration.