Manager GFA CoE
Willis Towers Watson
- Lisboa
- Permanente
- Horário completo
- Provide direction and guidance to the team on a day-to-day basis.
- Set objectives for direct reports and conduct regular goals and objective settings.
- Communicate frequently with team members via 1-to-1 meetings and team meetings.
- Identify and develop leadership qualities in individuals and groom them for the next level.
- Manage and delegate work fairly and effectively within the team.
- Develop individuals to their full potential.
- Responsible for managing attrition and absenteeism in the team.
- Review and deliver outputs from the team
- Drive financial planning process within assigned segment / business unit / regions / functions.
- Deliver financial analysis and key performance drivers to support understanding of business results.
- Deliver monthly financial performance vs. budget, forecast, and highlight risk and opportunities.
- Deliver client profitability analysis, new business, and revenue analysis to support business growth.
- Deliver salary, benefits, and other cost reporting and analysis.
- Deliver working capital and cash flow analysis to explain Free Cash Flow drivers.
- Ability to resolve queries of the team, other stakeholders through good judgement and understanding of WTW processes
- Full understanding of the financial statements including P&L, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flow
- Maintain investment, cost, transformation tracking and reporting, analysis.
- Understand the planning process and assist with establishing WTW’s budget / forecast.
- Maintain monthly and quarterly deliverables and reviewing with Business Finance leaders including revenue analysis, month-end results and commentaries, quarterly business reviews presentations.
- Create financial models and analysis with decision oriented KPIs.
- Assess processes for improvement, create process mapping, and lead the team in maintaining standard operating procedures documentation.
- Ensure smooth transition of processes, tasks from different teams by proactively addressing requirements and providing solutions.
- Meeting agreed global service standards and adherence to internal procedures to provide a globally consistent service.
- Set up goals and objectives for the team members and conduct performance reviews of the team members.
- Ad-hoc and project support.
- Any other additional responsibility commensurate with existing or new process requirements.
- 8-10 years of relevant FP&A experience in a large company and/or public accounting setting.
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Business Management, or another quantitative field. A Master’s degree is a plus.
- 3-5 years of managerial experience and leading more junior team members.
- Professional accounting certifications desired.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (i.e. Word, PowerPoint, Advanced Excel, Outlook, Visio, etc).
- Working experience with FP&A and Business Intelligence applications – Hyperion Planning / ePBCs, Anaplan, PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx.
- Written and oral communication skills in English and at least one additional European language (e.g., Spanish, Italian, German, French).
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a global team.
- Strong attention to detail is essential.