Financial Reporting Analyst (Operational KPIs)

Job Introduction

Are you a financial reporting champion? Do you have experience dealing with Financial operational KPIs? Can you collaborate with a wide range of business stakeholders? If yes, then we may have the role for you.

We have an exciting role for a Financial Reporting Analyst to join our Global Supply Management Team. Working hand in hand with key stakeholders you will efficiently drive, develop, and operate Supply Management financial performance reporting, integrate SM Finance activity with Global SM project delivery and transform the way we report our KPIs through innovative systems & process solutions.

This is an exciting time to join our global Supplier Management team who are on a transformation journey to improve the quality, cost and performance of our business.

You’ll have broad and strategic exposure with the confidence to communicate at all levels, not shy of challenging partners when necessary.  

Interviews will be conducted while this role is live. Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if a suitable candidate is found.

Role Responsibility

GSM Reporting activities

• Own, with a desire to constantly improve and automate, SM performance reporting activity and products.
• Directly support both the GSM Finance Controller and VP GSM Finance with the end-to-end process for the construction of all standard performance reports including actual snapshots, SM Target setting, quarterly performance reviews, forecasts and monthly KPIs up to COMEX and Investor Relations level quality.
• Work closely with SO & SM Finance colleagues to ensure clear and efficient integration of SM reporting activities within the wider SO reporting agenda.
• Manage & digest Group & SO reporting planning requirements in order to design SM planning cycle process.

GSM Process and Systems activities

• Evolve all GSM reporting processes to maximize insight, as well as integrity and efficiency, whilst maintaining excellent financial governance principles through strong regional collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Contribute to transforming the organization: identify global SM finance KPI processes that could be managed/reported in a better way and implement innovative solutions on financial activities across GSM.
• Provide insights on, and solutions to manage the worldwide consolidation of , risks and opportunities in analytical accuracy given legacy data systems. This is with the outcome of bringing better visibility to, and improvement on, integrity of shared information I.e., spend, KPI calculation, operational KPIs.- single source of truth.
• Take ownership of activity to efficiently maximize SM utilization of Group and functional reporting tools e.g., Essbase, HFM, Tagetik, Power-BI, Excel & PowerPoint to their fullest potential with the aim of limiting Excel dependencies.
• As an integral part of delivering solutions to the above points, design, build and action a SM KPI ‘data lake’ to store current and historical KPIs and contributing attributes.
• Manage a culture of simple yet strong financial data management.

GSM Project activities

• From a finance lens, contribute to the development of Supply Management’s digitalization in conjunction with global SM data/system/process team.
• Ensure that short- & medium-term GSM Finance process solutions effectively support SM data and system projects for future proofing the way we work via longer term integration.
• Actively participate in and contribute to, through new ideas and solutions discovery,  the evolution, build and implementation of new and evolving SM KPIs.

The Ideal Candidate

Profile

• Strong experience of delivering end-2-end robust financial/operational KPI reporting across a complex function/operation including developing data capture and consolidation process.
• Ability to get the most from complex and inconsistent data sets via innovate process, system, and tools solutions.
• Financial project leader &/or Financial/Operational KPI construct SME
• Demonstrate managing multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines at a senior level
• Seasoned self-starter who is passionate about collaboration & highly disciplined with a strong orientation towards innovative solutions to complex challenges.
• Proven organizational skills with the ability to work on multiple deliverables simultaneously and with autonomy.
• Strong business/finance ethics

Experience

• Degree level education &/or accountancy qualification
• Proven post qualification/role relevant experience
• Global mindset with international experience an advantage,
• Fluency in English mandatory; any other language an advantage.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI) and relevant data capture, storage & analytical tools/systems

Package Description

In return for your commitment and hard work, you will be rewarded with an attractive salary, plus access to our extensive benefits package, which includes:

• Contributory pension scheme of up to 6%
• 15% Group Bonus Plan
• £1,300 flexible benefits fund
• 23 days holiday (FTE) – plus bank holidays – rising to 26 days after 5 years
• A buy and sell holiday scheme of up to 3 days (FTE)
• Volunteering days via our charity partner STOP HUNGER
• Numerous voluntary benefits, including dental care, gym discounts, retail / hospitality, and many more

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. We recognise that we’re on a journey with regards to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process