Vice President Finance and Analysis, EMEA
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm.
Working exclusively with the CEOs and senior executives of the world’s leading companies, Teneo provides strategic counsel across their full range of key objectives and issues. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other global corporations.
Integrating the disciplines of strategic communications, investor relations, digital advisory, diversity & inclusion, management consulting, physical & cyber risk advisory, financial advisory, corporate governance advisory, political risk advisory, and talent advisory, Teneo solves for the most complex business challenges and opportunities.
The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.
Overall Purpose of Role
The Vice President Finance and Analysis, EMEA supports Finance Leadership across a range of financial planning & analysis and commercial projects.
They will work closely with both business unit and group finance teams to ensure timely and accurate information flow
Key Areas of Responsibility
Group Reporting
- Responsible for ensuring local teams meet reporting deadlines
- Maintain and improve reporting templates used by local teams
- Review reporting templates for accuracy before review by CFO
- Monitor and investigate variances of actual versus budgeted results
- Collate supplementary financial information (new client wins / prospects / large cash transactions) for inclusion in global board reporting
- Review local forecasts, budgets and cash flow templates and identify areas for discussion with CFO
Management Analysis
- Ensuring timely & accurate preparation of board packs for monthly board meetings
- Provide summary performance analysis to International Chairman
- Assist with implementation & maintenance of new management tools and dashboards
Commercial Projects
- Perform data analysis on resourcing needs, and staff utilisation
- Assist with gender pay gap calculations including cause and effect analysis
- Complete benchmarking exercises on client type, size and profile
- Assist CFO with ad-hoc projects
Acquisitions / New Offices
- Assist with integration of acquisitions and new offices into the group and management reporting processes
- Assist with implementation of Teneo systems relating to new business, timesheets etc.
- Prepare templates in Teneo format with target or new office proposed data for review by CFO
Key Competencies
- Acts with discretion, integrity and professionalism at all times and be a key source of financial support
- Qualified (ACA or ICAS) with at least 2 years post qualified experience
- Experience of a similar role, or reached at least Audit Manager level in a top 10 Accounting Firm
- High proficiency in Excel and data analytics abilities (experience of tools such as PowerBI or Tableau would be helpful but not a pre-requisite)
- Highly organised with good record keeping
- Effective project management skills and ability to prioritise tasks accordingly
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills across all levels of people
- Effectively communicates across cultures and can write clearly and succinctly
- Ensures all reports, data and written work are correct in detail and without error
- Keeps abreast of the internal and external influences affecting the business and that of our clients
- Seen as a cooperative team player willing to resolve issues for the good of all
- Proactively develops initiatives to improve internal financial reporting with the objective of delivering an effective and efficient service to the business.
- Actively participates in continual professional development
- Keeps up to date with contemporary trends and technology
- Uses time effectively and efficiently
- Will stand up and be counted; doesn’t shirk personal responsibility
- Proactively takes on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks
- Ability to apply a pragmatic approach to achieve a balance between business and commercial reality plus professional/technical standards
- Maintains a conscious balance between work and personal life so that one doesn’t dominate the other
What We Offer
New joiners are supported by an induction programmes, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support.
Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.
Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects.
Company Benefits
As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;
- Competitive salary (depending on experience)
- 28 days holiday
- Discretionary bonus
- Annual salary review
- Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
- Private medical insurance
- Group Income protection
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work schemes
- Season ticket loans
- Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
- Flexible working with office laptop and phone provided
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.
At Teneo, we have fully embraced hybrid working and redefined the way we work such that it facilitates collaboration, optimises productivity and promotes the health and wellbeing of our people. We are adopting a 60:40 principle of office:remote working across our UK business which offers the flexibility to ensure that our people are empowered to find the right rhythm for themselves, our teams and our clients. We are also happy to discuss other forms of flexible working so please let us know if this is something you would like to discuss.
