Job Title
FP&A Senior Analyst
Job Description Summary
Role Overview
The Financial Senior Analyst – FP&A Operations supports the country Finance team by delivering high-quality, standardised FP&A activities across planning, reporting, and analysis. The senior role may have 1 – 3 analysts reporting into the senior and they will work together as a team to provide timely and high-quality deliverables. The senior role also needs to work directly with their internal customers and stakeholders to ensure strong communications and alignment on deliverables and needs.
Based in the FP&A Operations Hub, the role combines system-driven execution with an increasing focus on analytics, automation, and AI-enabled insight generation. It enables Finance Business Partners to focus on strategic decision-making by improving data quality, efficiency, and scalability.
The role is critical to the transition toward a predictive, continuous, and insight-led FP&A function, with growing responsibility for leveraging and developing AI-enabled solutions, including agents.
Organisation
•Embedded support to a country / cluster finance team
•Part of the central FP&A Operations Hub
•Dual alignment: Country Finance (dotted line) and Hub Lead (solid line)
•Close collaboration with Controllership, HR, Business Support, and Data/Tech teams
•Contributor to a standardised, technology- and AI-enabled finance model
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Forecasting
•Support monthly forecasts, AOP, and budgeting cycles
•Prepare, validate, and consolidate planning inputs
•Track actuals vs. forecast/plan (incl. headcount and costs)
•Contribute to rolling forecast and continuous planning capabilities
•Manage 1 – 2 FP&A analysts and ensure their timely and high-quality FP&A deliverables
Systems & Data Management
•Execute system uploads and data preparation (e.g. OneStream, Workday)
•Extract and structure financial and operational data
•Ensure accuracy through validation and reconciliation
•Maintain consistent data across finance systems
Reporting & Analysis
•Deliver standardised reporting packs and dashboards
•Perform variance analysis across revenue, cost, and margin
•Support Power BI dashboards and visualisation
•Evolve reporting toward driver-based insights and performance analysis
Month-End Close Support
•Validate financial outputs during month-end close
•Support reconciliation between financial and management reporting
•Ensure alignment with Controllership processes
Automation, AI & Digital Enablement
•Identify and implement opportunities to streamline finance processes
•Use AI tools (e.g. Copilot) to improve productivity and output quality
•Support automation of reporting, forecasting, and reconciliation activities
•Reduce manual effort through standardisation and digital solutions
AI & Agent Development (Future-State Capability)
•Build capability in applying AI within FP&A
•Develop or support AI-powered agents to automate workflows (e.g. reporting, variance analysis, data validation)
•Leverage AI for predictive insights, anomaly detection, and automated commentary
•Collaborate with data and technology teams to scale solutions across the organisation
Experience & Qualifications
•Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
•4 - 8 years' experience in FP&A / finance operations
•Strong financial analysis capability, including the ability to analyse financial data, identify trends, and prepare reports that support business decisions
•Strong Excel and financial systems experience, including Workday, OneStream, Planning, or similar platforms for accurate reporting and data management
•Proficiency in handling large datasets and using tools such as Power BI and other data visualisation or analysis platforms to extract insights and support decision-making
•Familiarity with AI tools; interest in automation, digital, and agent-based solutions
•Experience in shared services / structured environments preferred
Key Competencies
•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial results and translate data into actionable insights
•High attention to detail and data accuracy when preparing financial reports, dashboards, and analysis
•Strong systems and data capability, including confidence working with large datasets and finance technology platforms
•Digital and AI mindset; ability to learn and apply new technologies
•High level of ownership; proactive, self-driven, hands-on, and able to take initiative to get work done independently and within and through teams
•Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior managers and cross-functional teams
•Collaborative and service-oriented, with the ability to work in a team environment and support colleagues and other departments to align finance activities with operational goals
•High Social IQ to translate business needs into deliverables and strong communications on findings, conclusions and recommendations. Ability to collaborate and generate win-win solutions
•Structured, process-driven, and reliable
•Continuous improvement and automation mindset
Success Measures
•Accuracy and timeliness of outputs
•Data quality and reporting consistency
•Adherence to planning cycles
•Level of automation and efficiency achieved
•Adoption and impact of AI-enabled solutions
•Feedback from Finance Business Partners
Role Positioning
This role sits within the operational FP&A layer, delivering standardised, technology-enabled finance execution while progressively evolving toward insight generation, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled decision support.
INCO: "Cushman & Wakefield"
