Corporate Finance Analyst

GBS (Global Business Services) provides financial, human resources, audit and IT services to the British American Tobacco entities. Our category expertise, large capabilities and international operation makes us a unique business partner who excels in financial leadership and, therefore, offers great shareholder value for BAT.

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Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

A financial background with a professional accountancy qualification, relevant university degree or ACCA; minimum experience required in a similar position of 2-3 years.
Practical experience in applying this finance knowledge in business projects & change process implementations as well as managing financial results (P&L, Cash Flow)
Have a good knowledge and understanding of group reporting procedures and policies
Excellent Excel spreadsheet and general computer skills, including SAP and BPC
Good knowledge of the Company’s activities, policies and procedures.
Fluency in both written and spoken English
Excellent communication skills; the ability to develop good working relationship with key management in all departments.
A commercial approach to all activities.

The role incumbent is responsible to produce reliable and accurate financial statements in line with BAT Group reporting standards. Participates in controlling, reviewing and validating of financial data to provide management with timely and accurate financial information, to enable effective and efficient decision-making. Perform on a regular and consistent basis all controls within his/ her area of responsibility.



PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES (Budget Reviews, QPRs & Monthly responsibilities):

Support provided to Global Planning & Reporting manager for managing global consolidation & reporting of Regional GBS cost drivers quarterly (QPRs and CoPlan):

Consolidation of GBS cost base by Function and by location, perform variance analysis and cause of change details to explain variances on the cost base versus previous budget exercise
Advice and support to other GBS Finance teams during the planning exercise; Alignment with all other Finance workstreams (OHDS, Revenues and Projects) to ensure all costs are properly captured in line with Black Book requirements
Provide support on ad-hoc Global GBS requests - According to the requirements, information is collected and analyzed to deliver additional non-standard details to stakeholders.
Contribute to the design and implementation of GBS functional hierarchy to ensure alignment and proper reporting structure is in place to ensure consistent reporting at functional level across all GBS Centres
Management Reporting: Preparation of Financial forecasting during Monthly Operating Profit Estimate (MOPE), Quarterly Profit Reviews (QPRs) and Budget review;
Provides monthly support for the Finance Management Pack preparation. Prepares monthly GBS reports – local entity and management views for Global GBS (e.g. Power BI reports, Flash report, quarterly SOX BPR etc.)
Review and analyse the Actuals year to date spend review against latest budget version and engage with other GBS Finance locations to understand the root cause for material variances and if any sensitivities needs to be highlighted.
Coordination and execution of monthly, quarterly and YE closing activities for Global Analytics (GAT), Business Optimization Centre (BOC) and UK GBS Finance:

Perform month end closure activities.
Monthly Variance Analysis Actuals year to date spend versus latest estimate budget.
Prepare year to date reports for GBS BOC and GAT management for on-going projects
BOC/GAT/UK Finance Recharges – calculation, quarterly tracking and invoice issuing; True-up recharges.