FP&A Analyst

Job title: FP&A Analyst Pay rate: £350 per day Contract Length: 3 months Location: Basingstoke (2 days per week, Tuesdays anchor day) IR35: Inside Job Description Summary This role will sit within the Roadside Finance team with a dotted reporting line into the Transformation team within COO. Your primary focus will be to support end-to-end programme management, covering governance, portfolio appraisal, cost management, benefit realisation, and post implementation reviews. Responsibilities Assist the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis - Road in providing support to the Finance and Transformation teams across investment and cost management through: * Development of efficient and effective benefits tracking methodology and analysis; tracking of investment benefits through the development of business-led driver analysis that gives forward confidence in portfolio returns * Consolidation of benefits tracking into meaningful and concise analysis for Board level presentations * Supporting the prioritisation of annual / ad-hoc Capex spend across the Roadside and Customer Ops portfolio; aligned to the 5 year roadmap * Working with Accountable Executives, Initiative/Project Managers and Finance Teams to develop robust business cases with OKRs and financial benefits that can be tracked and are embedded in divisional budgets * Analysing project/program performance to detect early deviations from schedule and cost/benefit plans * Developing analysis and business models to better understand the AA's cost base and provide insight to support decision making on the allocation of resources across the business * Participating in continuous improvement initiatives to drive forecasting accuracy, process standardisation / optimisation and PPM tool effectiveness * Focusing on maintaining and improving financial controls and performance through ensuring all financial procedures and controls are applied as required; and advising non-finance functions on their application * Developing and maintaining a broad knowledge of Roadside commercial activities and related KPIs and metrics * Monitoring and driving the commercial success of the Roadside division The Individual Capability, Knowledge and Experience * Business planning, strategy and business case development with experience in B2C and B2B services desirable * Strong financial analysis and excel modelling skills; develop benefit tracking / analysis capability * Experienced in investigating, developing and appraising solutions to commercial opportunities with a high attention to detail * Strong understanding and experience of investment, financial and business controls * Strong ability to work at senior levels of the organisation to solve complex problems * Excellent organisational and planning skills, with proven ability to work independently Education & Qualifications This is a highly numerate and analytical role - while there are no specific educational requirements for this, it is expected that the successful candidate will have one or more of the following: * Graduate calibre (or equivalent of experience) * Accountancy qualification * Training in economics, business or finance Personal Characteristics: * Open, honest and collaborative style * Strong growth mindset * Relentless focus on accuracy, quality and attention to detail * Flexible and able to balance multiple projects/priorities * Intellectual curiosity and a passion to solve complex problems * Organised, logical, numerate, fact-based * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing compelling presentations and presenting these to senior stakeholders