Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

at  Aptitude Software

ABOUT US

At Aptitude we love complexity.
We immerse ourselves in the intricacies of finance digitization, subscription management, compliance, and revenue management which gives us the power to make a real impact. Once we understand how an organization works, we can implement software solutions that provide the clarity, confidence, and control they need to drive growth and achieve their ambitions.
Aptitude has served the offices of finance for over 20 years, delivering financial control and insights to empower our clients to achieve their strategies and ambitions. We are currently serving over 75 CFOs whose organisations generate a combined revenue of over $1 Trillion.
We are proud of our growing team of smart, motivated and passionate people, and believe diverse experiences and perspectives build stronger teams and better solutions.
Headquartered in London, we have seven office locations around the world with clients across four continents.

As the Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst you will be responsible for the maintenance and analysis of both consolidated and departmental budgets, providing insightful financial information to management that is timely, relevant, accurate, reliable, and actionable.
It is through your effective business partnering that you will ensure departmental management have the necessary financial information relating to their business area to support them in the process of making decisions and to enable them to take responsibility of their budget.
As part of the overall role, you must think commercially throughout the process of preparing forecast information to ensure the business’s strategy is truly reflected and that targets are challenging but achievable to gain the necessary buy-in both internally and externally. Timely identification and communication of risks contained within the forecast is vital to effective performance.
You will be expected to maintain a strong connection to the global finance team and to others across the wider business. Perceptively looking around the corner at what might be coming in terms of challenges across the business, as well as opportunities for the organisation’s future growth. Always making sure you are focusing on the important and consistently striving to deliver value to Aptitude Software and its strategic goals.
Strong cashflow management is critical to the role to enable effective compliance with the Group’s capital allocation policies. Through timely identification of cash collection risks, you will drive action in the business to improve cash conversion.