Job Title
FP&A Senior Analyst
Job Description Summary
Role Overview
The Financial Senior Analyst – FP&A Operations supports the country Finance team by delivering high-quality, standardised FP&A activities across planning, reporting, and analysis. The senior role may have 1 – 3 analysts reporting into the senior and they will work together as a team to provide timely and high – quality deliverables. The senior role also needs to work directly with their internal customers and stakeholders to ensure strong communications and alignment on deliverables and needs.
Based in the FP&A Operations Hub, the role combines system-driven execution with an increasing focus on analytics, automation, and AI-enabled insight generation. It enables Finance Business Partners to focus on strategic decision-making by improving data quality, efficiency, and scalability.
The role is critical to the transition toward a predictive, continuous, and insight-led FP&A function, with growing responsibility for leveraging and developing AI-enabled solutions, including agents.
Job Description
Role Overview
The Financial Senior Analyst – FP&A Operations supports the country Finance team by delivering high-quality, standardised FP&A activities across planning, reporting, and analysis. The senior role may have 1 – 3 analysts reporting into the senior and they will work together as a team to provide timely and high – quality deliverables. The senior role also needs to work directly with their internal customers and stakeholders to ensure strong communications and alignment on deliverables and needs.
Based in the FP&A Operations Hub, the role combines system-driven execution with an increasing focus on analytics, automation, and AI-enabled insight generation. It enables Finance Business Partners to focus on strategic decision-making by improving data quality, efficiency, and scalability.
The role is critical to the transition toward a predictive, continuous, and insight-led FP&A function, with growing responsibility for leveraging and developing AI-enabled solutions, including agents.
Organisation
- Embedded support to a country / cluster finance team
- Part of the central FP&A Operations Hub
- Dual alignment: Country Finance (dotted line) and Hub Lead (solid line)
- Close collaboration with Controllership, HR, Business Support, and Data/Tech teams
- Contributor to a standardised, technology- and AI-enabled finance model
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Forecasting
- Support monthly forecasts, AOP, and budgeting cycles
- Prepare, validate, and consolidate planning inputs
- Track actuals vs. forecast/plan (incl. headcount and costs)
- Contribute to rolling forecast and continuous planning capabilities
- Manage 1 – 2 FP&A analysts and ensure their timely and hi-quality FP&A deliverables.
Systems & Data Management
- Execute system uploads and data preparation (e.g. OneStream, Workday)
- Extract and structure financial and operational data
- Ensure accuracy through validation and reconciliation
- Maintain consistent data across finance systems
Reporting & Analysis
- Deliver standardised reporting packs and dashboards
- Perform variance analysis across revenue, cost, and margin
- Support Power BI dashboards and visualisation
- Evolve reporting toward driver-based insights and performance analysis
Month-End Close Support
- Validate financial outputs during month-end close
- Support reconciliation between financial and management reporting
- Ensure alignment with Controllership processes
Automation, AI & Digital Enablement
- Identify and implement opportunities to streamline finance processes
- Use AI tools (e.g. Copilot) to improve productivity and output quality
- Support automation of reporting, forecasting, and reconciliation activities
- Reduce manual effort through standardisation and digital solutions
AI & Agent Development (Future-State Capability)
- Build capability in applying AI within FP&A
- Develop or support AI-powered agents to automate workflows (e.g. reporting, variance analysis, data validation)
- Leverage AI for predictive insights, anomaly detection, and automated commentary
- Collaborate with data and technology teams to scale solutions across the organisation
Experience & Qualifications
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 4 - 8 years’ experience in FP&A / finance operations
- Strong financial analysis capability, including the ability to analyse financial data, identify trends, and prepare reports that support business decisions
- Strong Excel and financial systems experience, including Workday, OneStream, Planning, or similar platforms for accurate reporting and data management
- Proficiency in handling large datasets and using tools such as Power BI and other data visualisation or analysis platforms to extract insights and support decision-making
- Familiarity with AI tools; interest in automation, digital, and agent-based solutions
- Experience in shared services / structured environments preferred
Key Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial results and translate data into actionable insights
- High attention to detail and data accuracy when preparing financial reports, dashboards, and analysis
- Strong systems and data capability, including confidence working with large datasets and finance technology platforms
- Digital and AI mindset; ability to learn and apply new technologies
- High level of ownership; proactive, self-driven, hands-on, and able to take initiative to get work done independently and within and through teams.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior managers and cross-functional teams
- Collaborative and service-oriented, with the ability to work in a team environment and support colleagues and other departments to align finance activities with operational goals
- High Social IQ to translate business needs into deliverables and strong communications on findings, conclusions and recommendations. Ability to collaborate and generate win-win solutions.
- Structured, process-driven, and reliable
- Continuous improvement and automation mindset
Success Measures
- Accuracy and timeliness of outputs
- Data quality and reporting consistency
- Adherence to planning cycles
- Level of automation and efficiency achieved
- Adoption and impact of AI-enabled solutions
- Feedback from Finance Business Partners
Role Positioning
This role sits within the operational FP&A layer, delivering standardised, technology-enabled finance execution while progressively evolving toward insight generation, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled decision support.
INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”