Finance Business Partner - Senior Associate

Join our Payments Finance & Business Management (F&BM)Team as a Senior Associate, where you will have the opportunity to develop and manage key Merchant Acquiring initiatives. 

As a Business Finance Business Partner in Merchant Services, you will optimize business performance by helping promote key initiatives. Business Partners act as trusted advisors and counterweights to business leaders, and are responsible for identifying, escalating and mitigating business risks. In this role you will work with business leads responsible for the Merchant Acquiring business helping them to understand their financial performance and drivers and advise on how best to execute on strategic and tactical goals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the F&BM VP in the delivery of business and finance management strategy development, financial analysis and business management support to the EMEA Merchant Services Leadership. 
• Lead production of monthly/quarterly financial and performance reviews, including actuals versus plan and variance analysis
• Responsible for the management of the annual budgeting process, both for Line of Business and local Legal entities. 
• Co-ordinate the reconciliation of various reporting systems across finance and merchant Services to ensure accurate reporting to all. 
• Partner with the business to develop key performance metrics tied to our transformation and effectively communicate the benefits linked to these efforts
• Work with the business in the development of business plans, SIF’s and NBIA’s to ensure the validation of identified benefits. 
• Work with the US development team to ensure correct reporting of tech spend and specified business outcomes. 
• Support audit, regulatory and compliance deliverables; help drive specific action plans and deliverables within the Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) framework
• Assist in the co-ordination of merchant services team activities and prepare materials for town halls, business unit reviews and employee recognition. 
• Manage the Objective Key Results setting process, and ongoing reporting of monthly progress around achievement of same. 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: 

• Highly Organized individual, with an ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders.  
• Qualified Accountant with experience in FP&A in a complex organization. 
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management and prioritization skills
• High Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
• Flexible in working style, strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across all levels and influence key stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills capable of analyzing large data sets and presenting conclusions concisely. 
• Excellent attention to details.