Specialist - FP&A

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Finance team at Marsh Belgium.

As a FP&A Specialist, you will work closely with business leaders to provide high-quality financial insight, analysis, and commercial support. The role will help translate financial data into actionable recommendations, improve business performance, and support effective planning and decision-making.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical finance capability with commercial acumen, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to communicate complex information clearly.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Partnering and Decision Support
• Build trusted relationships with business leaders and operational stakeholders.
• Act as a finance advisor to support commercial and operational decision-making.
• Translate business objectives into financial implications, insights, and recommendations.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and identify opportunities, risks, and potential performance improvements.
• Support stakeholders in understanding financial results, key drivers, and trade-offs.
• Participate in business meetings and operational reviews as the finance representative.
• Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Planning
• Coordinate and support the annual budgeting and planning process for assigned business areas.
• Prepare rolling forecasts and periodic financial outlooks.
• Work with budget owners to develop realistic plans aligned with strategic priorities.
• Analyse forecast movements and explain key changes in revenue, costs, margins, and cash flow.
• Monitor actual performance against budget, forecast, and strategic targets.
• Support scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to assess potential business outcomes.
• Ensure financial plans are complete, accurate, timely, and supported by appropriate assumptions.
• Performance Reporting and Financial Insights
• Prepare and deliver regular management reporting for assigned business areas.
• Develop clear analysis of financial and operational performance, including key trends and variances.
• Provide commentary on the underlying drivers of performance rather than reporting figures alone.
• Track key performance indicators and support the development of meaningful financial and operational metrics.
• Produce dashboards and reports that enable timely and effective decision-making.
• Highlight performance gaps and work with stakeholders to define corrective actions.
• Support month-end and quarter-end reporting activities, ensuring accurate and meaningful reporting.
• Communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Financial Governance, Controls, and Continuous Improvement
• Promote sound financial management practices across the business.
• Review expenditure, business cases, and financial commitments to ensure appropriate governance.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting quality, efficiency, and data accuracy.
• Collaborate with Financial Control, FP&A, Procurement, Operations, and other finance teams.
• Contribute to finance transformation initiatives and other projects as required.
• Maintain a strong focus on data quality, confidentiality, accuracy, and professional integrity.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Three Years Experience in financial analysis, management accounting, FP&A, or finance business partnering.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• Experience working with non-finance stakeholders in a commercial or operational environment.
• Advanced Excel, Power BI and Data Visualization skills and experience with financial systems and reporting tools.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities.

Key Skills And Behaviours

• Commercially minded and able to connect financial performance with business outcomes.
• Fluent in English and (French or Dutch)
• Clear and confident communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and providing constructive advice.
• Detail-oriented, accurate, and committed to high-quality outputs.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Proactive, collaborative, and solutions focused.
• Capable of working independently while contributing effectively to a wider finance team.
• Demonstrates sound judgement, discretion, and professional integrity.

Success in the Role

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