WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a cost financial analyst to join the Schroders’ Financial Planning and Analysis (’FP&A’) team, with a specific focus on supporting the Operations and Corporate Services Finance Business Partnering team.
The Finance Business Partnering team ensures that operational expenditure is well controlled, allocated and key costs drivers and methodologies are understood by the business segments and entities that use Operations & Corporate Services while also ensuring the functions overall spend is aligned with the Group’s strategic objectives and based on sound commercial decision making.
The cost financial analyst will play a critical role in the success of the Finance business partnering team by collaborating closely with various stakeholders to produce accurate, timely and useful cost insight, evaluate and challenge financial performance, and ensure compliance with financial policies, process, and regulations.

THE KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS YOU NEED

• A background in cost analysis, budgeting & forecasting, cost allocation drivers, and business partner support. An understanding of Investment Management Technology cost drivers an advantage.
• Newly qualified with a professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or international equivalent) and desire to develop into a commercial finance business partner.
• Strong analytical mindset supported with strong Excel and Power BI capability and the ability to consolidate cost data into useful summaries and reports that tell a story.
• Good written and verbal communication skills and proven experience collaborating with a range of stakeholders, both within Finance and in the business.Deliver within tight deadlines, work well with others, and improve efficiency while maintaining an appropriate control framework.

THE KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS THAT’LL HELP

• Financial Services Industry / Investment Management experience an advantage, but not mandatory.
• Highly energetic, curious, and self-motivated, demonstrating an ability to self-solve and seek to be a good example in terms of the ‘what’ and the ‘how.’
• Be able to engage and collaborate with various stakeholders including tailoring messaging to the audience.
• Proactive team player with excellent interpersonal skills and able to establish and maintain effective, cooperative working relationships.Able to manage competing demands on time where necessary.

• Reporting: Review actuals (pre-payments, accruals, and costs journals etc.) and prepare standard cost variance insight for performance reporting and reviews. Work with the business to develop and update cost allocation drivers and provide analysis on any material changes to budget assumptions.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Support the business stakeholders and finance business partners in the development and system updating of annual budgets and quarterly cost re-forecasts.
• Performance Analysis: Track actuals vs targets, including identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Process Improvement: Deliver accurate and timely finance process (month-end close, budget, and forecast system updating and reconciliations, allocation updates and reconciliation, and ensure finance systems remain aligned to business structures and changes) while also identifying opportunities supporting simplification and continuous improvement.
• Ad hoc Analysis: Provide support for ad hoc financial analysis and projects as required.