Manager, Finance Business Partner

JOB SUMMARY

The Manager, Finance Business Partner provides financial leadership, information, insight, and guidance to the select EMEA Disciplines in collaboration with the Senior Director Finance Business Partner with focus on various funding sources including but not limited to Net Admin, Sales & Marketing funds, Loyalty, Program & services, PSF and Shared services. He / she will work closely with Senior Director, Continent Leadership, the larger Continent Finance and the HQ-based FBPs team to compile, review and analyze financial data and to provide variance analysis to budget and forecast.

The Manager, Finance Business Partner will provide proactive management to ensure the financial management, reporting, and analysis needs are met through effective partnerships with the Continent Finance Team. He/she will establish and maintain strong relationships with these Discipline groups to help effectively address business issues, identify and implement appropriate solutions, influence, as appropriate, business decisions, and improve overall business results. He/she will partner with the disciplines and the team to implement, as appropriate, finance and accounting strategies, policies, processes, and tools to ensure accurate financial reporting and to monitor the achievement of enterprise business goals.

The key objective of the role includes:

• Providing insightful analysis, guidance and support to the Senior Director Finance Business Partner to identify and recommend opportunities and strategies for improvement and focus on trends, benchmarks and goals to help guide the leadership in their planning and strategic decisions.

• Managing the on-going monitoring, measuring, and forecasting, the financial performance and the development and implementation of actionable recommendations to address identified business challenges and opportunities.

• Provide dedicated Finance Business Support to select disciplines.

Managing Work, Projects, and Policies
Work with Continent Accounting Team to oversee the accounting, reporting and financial analysis necessary to support the assigned disciplines.
Manage the monitoring and analysis costs to ensure compliance with funding requirements and cost allocation methodologies, to determine over/under recovery positions. Lead funding and cost analyses to support business decision making and to respond to internal management and external parties inquires.
Ensure knowledge and understanding of funding and cost allocation methodologies for assigned disciplines.
Understand the requirements of ASC 606 (Revenue Recognition Standard) and its impact on the accurate recording of over / under balances, providing direct input into EMEA’s Program & Services reporting and governance process, working closely with various stakeholders across the organization if applicable to the assigned disciplines.
Manage relationship with Accenture Hospitality Services (AHS/MBS) and other stakeholder groups, as appropriate, to provide routine and ad-hoc operating results and analysis to Senior Director.
Contribute knowledge of the business environment and interpret data and reports in consultation with the Senior Director and discipline leaders as appropriate, to ensure the completeness and accuracy of financial information, explain trends and/or variations in results vs. expectations, and develop and implement actionable recommendations and responses to address identified business challenges and opportunities.
Ensure team members have the knowledge and understanding of the assigned Discipline departments, sub-departments and entities.
Monitor and analyze costs as compared to budget, last year and forecast. Perform financial analyses to support business decision making and to respond to internal management and external parties inquires.
Establish and nurture relationships with the Global Finance and Continent teams to ensure information flow is timely and appropriate to effect attention to business challenges and opportunities.
Partner with MBS to ensure service delivery metrics are met and operational challenges are resolved timely.
Develop and/or modify reporting…