Company Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets’ data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Job Description

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent Excel skills; experience turning large data sets into clear summaries and conclusions
• Finance qualification or equivalent
• High commercial acumen, intellectual curiosity and critical thinking
• Takes personal responsibility to meet commitments and actively seeks additional responsibility
• Good knowledge of accounting systems (ideally NetSuite) and FP&A systems (ideally Anaplan).
• PowerPoint skills (thinkcell experience a plus); experience building decks for C Suite stakeholders
• An ability to prioritise workload and meet targets set by others

YOU’VE READ A LITTLE ABOUT US – NOW IT’S OVER TO YOU!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great

THE ROLE

• We are looking for a 13 month FTC to support the PDT (Product, data, technology) arms of our business. Acting as a trusted partner to ensure business strategy is implemented, you will be a key point of challenge and control working directly with SLT members.You will need to be able to think on your feet and find creative solutions to data and process issues where there is not always an existing solution. You will need to be able to put in place KPIs and metrics for the business, build robust business cases and you will be an expert in modelling, forecasting budgeting and stakeholder management. You will be comfortable with revenue and overheads, and ideally understand a subscriptions business.The right candidate will be comfortable dealing with C-Suite level individuals, and able to constructively challenge to ensure we are on track. You will be passionate about accurate detail and able to easily manipulate data in manual processes, whilst also exploring every opportunity for best practice and automation through our FP&A software (Anaplan) to future proof ways of working. You will be highly visual in your presenting style, able to tell a story from facts and data and keen to explore new visualisations or metrics to summarise your points clearly.You will need brilliant excel skills, great presentation skills and fantastic people and influencing skills to work as a valued member of the business as well as finance. The right candidate will be a highly commercial team player skilled in working in a fast paced environment and comfortable with working through transformational change.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Act as Finance Business Partner to the Technology, Product and Data teams to provide insights and analysis
• Oversight and tracking of new product launches
• Work with the procurement team and Head of Business partnering to identify areas for business improvement and increased profitability
• Lead budget and forecast processes and overlays for PDT
• Work with the business to embed ways of working in Anaplan, as well as working on continual improvement and evolution of our processes and dashboards
• Work with the Data team to produce dashboards and metrics in Salesforce / Qlik / Anaplan as required to answer business needs
• Produce and present decks as required, including effective graphics, charts and visualisations
• Produce variance analysis, understanding and commentary
• Business partner key stakeholders across the overhead functions
• Challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders to improve business performance while considering financial implications
• Challenge of costs, looking for and tracking synergies, efficiencies and identifying any gaps
• Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes - - ability to distil complex technical information into clear simple messages
• Assess business performance and strive for a deeper understanding of business levers and underlying drivers
• Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives and help drive financial decisions
• Analyse trends in key performance indicators highlighting commercial opportunities and risks
• Respond to ad-hoc requests according to business needs
  Qualifications
  We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
  If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on…