Group FP&A Senior Analyst

Keywords Studios, established in Dublin in 1998, now has 70+ studios across Europe, North and South America and Asia with 13,000 employee strength located across 5 continents and 26 countries. The company provides a complete outsourced game art, engineering, testing, audio and localization service for all Console, PC, Handheld and Mobile content, to many of the biggest names in games and interactive entertainment, working on thousands of titles including many of the best-selling titles of the past few years.

Keywords Studios is comprised of many individual brands, all with something unique to offer our clients. The studios are integrated into the Group by Service Line and use the operating systems and tools deployed by those services lines to ensure people and projects can operate across studios and across geographies.

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Job Overview:

Working closely with the Head of Group FP&A, this role will take part in the preparation of financial reporting to the KWS Executive and Board, ensuring delivery to the highest standards of accuracy and insightfulness. Under the direction of the Head of Group FP&A, the role will also assist in the preparation and consolidation of annual budgeting, long range planning and near term forecasting processes, ensuring that stretching but achievable targets are developed and embedded across the organization. The role will assist in the preparation of KPIs/KLIs, financial models and strategic analysis to support decision making by KWS Executives and PE investors. The role will work alongside other Finance team members to help ensure that Group and Divisional reporting and planning is standardized and automated and be a strong advocate for our Finance Excellence vision to be trusted business partners that champion growth, create value and manage risk.

Key Responsibilities:

The Group FP&A Senior Analyst will deliver the following key activities:

Group FP&A Process, Systems & Data

• Input to the development KWS FP&A planning and reporting processes, standardizing financial processes, models and KPIs and driving consistent adoption across the Finance organization.
• Assist the preparation of monthly Exec and Board financial reporting and KPIs, consolidating submissions from Finance teams and providing clear, insightful management reporting and dashboards, in-depth financial analysis and actionable insights to support decision-making.
• Support activities to develop and communicate the timelines and targets associated with the annual budget, forecasts and long range planning processes, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market conditions.
• Support the preparation of the Risks & Opportunities process and consolidating and challenging inputs from divisions.
• Input to the preparation of budget, forecasts and long range plans, consolidating and assessing the inputs received from the Finance teams and preparing related Executive and Board presentations.
• Contribute to activities that will ensure financial systems and tools are utilized to streamline reporting and analysis, helping to ensure their integration across FP&A, Divisions and Controlling teams to ensure consistency and accuracy of all Group FP&A team outputs.
• Provide the Group FP&A team with inputs to the governance around the Finance data model, reporting standards and reporting tools used across the Finance function, ensuring that requests for analysis is capable of being delivered without significant manual effort.
• Develop financial models to support long-term planning including use of driver-based forecasting approaches.
• Recommend ways to improve forecasting accuracy through better data, automation, and analytics.
• Contribute to activities to drive continuous improvement and scalability of FP&A operations.

Partnering with Executives and PE Investors

• Support the Head of Group FP&A by developing financial models and analysis that enables insight and high quality decision support to Executives and PE Investors to drive growth and business performance. Support the preparation of management financial reporting, analysis and insightful commentary.
• Work with the Head of Group FP&A to respond to requests from investors and and other external stakeholders for analysis and reporting on business strategy and performance.
• Support the Head of Group FP&A in translating business strategy into financial plans and measurable targets.
• Provide appropriate financial support to the CFO and wider teams as required.

Strategic Analysis and Action Planning

• As directed, build robust financial models and develop strategic analysis to identify opportunities for growth and to mitigate risk.
• Input to research and the development of proposals for strategic initiatives aimed at delivering growth and responding to emerging threats and opportunities.
• Contribute to the delivery of analysis in areas including; revenue, margin and cost drivers; customer and product profitability, unit economics and ROI.
• Prepare scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis.

Risk Management & Scenario Planning

• Take part in activities to Identify financial risks and stress-test plans.
• Support the modeling of downside, upside, and contingency scenarios. Support liquidity planning and robust cash flow forecasting.

Finance Team Management and Collaboration

• Work as key member of the Group FP&A team and the wider Finance team, helping to shape, advocate for and deliver our Finance Excellence vision to be trusted business partners that champion growth, create value and manage risk.

Job Requirements

This is an intermediate level role in the organization that requires a capable Senior Finance Analyst with relevant experience in assisting the delivery of Global FP&A planning and reporting processes in organizations that are fast moving and need attention to decisions on contract pricing and margins. The role is expected to have strong financial modeling and analysis skills and ability to present results and commentary that is highly visual and insightful. To be successful in the role it is expected that you will have:

• Finance MBA or Part Qualified Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.
• 3 - 4 years experience working as a Senior Analyst / Analyst within the Group FP&A function of a complex, multinational organization.
• A good knowledge of building out and utilising PowerBI dashboards and other dashboarding tools as we develop more data-led reporting and forecasting.
• High degree of data literacy and familiarity with BI tools and analysing complex data sets to identify trends and opportunities.
• Experience of supporting financial reporting, planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes with high attention to detail, insightfulness and accuracy.
• Highly proficient in financial modelling skills including the use of financial planning tools, BI and Excel.
• Able to communicate effectively with Finance Leaders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Natural collaborative and inclusive approach to working with Finance team members and colleagues.

Role Information: IN

Studio: Location: Keywords India

Area of Work: Finance

Service: Support

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: In-Office