Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

**About Us**:
We are AMS. AMS is a global total workforce solutions firm founded in 1996. We enable organizations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, reshaping, and optimizing workforces. We do this through talent acquisition and contingent workforce management, internal mobility and skills development, and talent and technology advisory services. Our solutions are delivered by our 4500+ experts who live our passionate, bold, and authentic values. The ultimate aim is to help clients around the world, including 100+ blue-chip companies, create workforces that are fluid, resilient, diverse, and differentiated. We call this true workforce dexterity—and we’re here to help you achieve it.

**The Role**:
We are currently looking for a **FP&A Finance Business Partner** to support the Head of Finance in the Americas to drive business performance leading to the attainment of financial targets for the region. The successful applicant will own financial analysis of some portfolio in the Region, complement Management Accounting support on some transactional elements and should be ready to take on leadership responsibilities as the region grows.

**Key Accountabilities**:
Financial Planning
- Support the quarterly Forecasting and Annual Budgeting process
- Support Operations input into financial system and challenge assumptions, and ensuring accuracy
- Support Head of Finance (Americas) to compile forecast reports, analysis for presentation to leadership.

Month-end support
- Coordinate with Management Accountants and Operations during month-end to understand primary drivers of the performance
- Work with Management Accountants to book necessary accruals to ensure accuracy of results
- May be assigned Management Accounting responsibilities over some accounts
- Support Head of Finance, Americas with business performance review

Project and Account Support
- Provide financial oversight and analysis over Project portfolio and other smaller accounts by working with Operational Leads to manage and track performance of the accounts from post-sales handoff to execution
- Applicant should have a strong commercial awareness to provide financial analysis support to new accounts especially during mobilization by checking sales and pricing assumptions versus actual deployment metrics

**Skills & Experience**:

- Ability to effectively collaborate with operations and other key players in a matrix organization
- Ability to analyze trends and make deductions/insights from them - especially in the Service Industry
- Ability to show resilience and manage priorities
- Strong communication skills
- Strong financial modelling skills
- Minimum 7 years’ experience preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Deep dive into challenged accounts to understand performance drivers, risk and recommend mitigations
- Work with Management Accountants to analyze implementation costs to track to budget and communicate to key stakeholders.
- Support other responsibilities and ad hoc requests as may be assigned by Head of Finance (FP&A), Americas
- Strong Intermediate or Advanced MS Excel skills, and good background in finance systems

**Other**:
We strive to do things better for the world’s most demanding brands. Is it challenging? Yes. But it’s a challenge that brings us together, where support, collaboration and inclusiveness empower you with a feeling of belonging.

Bring your goals and ambitions. We give you the trust, independence, and flexibility to run your career your way. Our support will bring you opportunity.

Our evolution is happening now, let’s bring it—together.

**What you will get in return**
- Stretching, challenging work - no work is ever the same
- Ability to work on outsourcing engagements as well as lead advisory projects and programs based upon business need
- Work from home
- Competitive reward and benefits package
- Work as a part of one of the largest talent technology specialized teams