FP&A Manager/Project Analyst

Company:

MMC Corporate

Description:

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

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, as well as 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, with a focus 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 of 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 a team member 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 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 applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.