Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, MMC Europe

We are seeking a talented individual to join our International FP&A team at Marsh McLennan. This role will be based in London. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, MMC Europe

Reporting to the CFO for MMC Europe, you will lead on FP&A for a $2.5bil portfolio across Marsh and Mercer, working as the head of the MMC Europe FP&A team, and liaising with MMC Europe CFO, MMC Europe CEO, Regional CEOs and Regional FP&A teams globally.

We will count on you to:

• Provide leadership to MMC Europe Finance, working closely with the CFO to forge direction and delivery.
• Be a relied-upon counsel to the European CFO, European CEO and Regional CFOs .
• Take responsibility for reporting, analysing and explaining Marsh & Mercer Europe financial performance
• Own the budget process for Marsh & Mercer Europe, understanding opportunities and threats and build credible plans to deliver profitable growth in line with targets.
• Lead the forecasting process for MMC Europe, ensuring an appropriate mix of top-down understanding and client level analytics.
• Provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior management, including the provision of accurate, timely and insightful analyses of key projects in the business unit such as acquisitions, team hires, IT projects etc
• Partner with Corporate and Global Finance teams to ensure European performance is well understood.
• Ensure the business receives robust KPIs to run the business, including coordinating the collection of all performance indicators, highlighting trends and analysing causes of variances to budget, forecast and prior year.
• When needed, present and explain Marsh & Mercer European financial results at management meetings, including an in depth analysis of the revenue walk versus prior year.
• Prepare all sensitive and confidential analysis as directed by the CEOs­­­ or CFO
• Support key matrix business (i.e. Affinity, Advisory, Specialties)
• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
• Champion finance transformation
• Prepare Ex Co presentations, financial presentations, capital expenditure analysis, client profitability analysis and other projects requested by senior management.
• Supervision of Financial Analysts
• Manage a team of two direct reports

What you need to have:

• Qualified Accountant, ACCA/CIMA or equivalent, with significant post qualification experience. Significant experience of senor level FP&A, from within financial services, preferably an insurance broking or insurance firm
• Experience of presenting financial results & forecasts on a regular basis to senior executives, running a business budgeting process and financial analysis to a high level. With strong written & verbal communication skills, strong presentational and analytical skills
• Finance change and transformational experience and strong strategic capability
• Leadership of teams and leadership skills
• Ability to think creatively, make decisions and solve problems that are general in nature.
• Be highly-driven and self-motivated
• Ability to prioritise and deliver to very strict deadlines
• Ability to Ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on management capacity
• Ability to work independently and as a team member with excellent interpersonal skills
• Expertise and experience in change and process management
• Excellent organisational skills
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills

What makes you stand out?

• Experience of client level analytical challenges would be a plus
• Experience with Hyperion Planning, Essbase, and Oracle Financials strongly preferred

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [email protected].

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.