Finance Business Partner Analyst

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- Job Details
- Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies. Kantar’s 25,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.
- Our media colleagues are expert in understanding the changing media landscape. This includes audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media. Their global coverage and local expertise enable clients to better understand media audiences and their relationships with brands to optimise investment.
- Job Title: Finance Business Partner Analyst
- Location: London, Grays Inn Road
- Salary: Competitive
- Full time/Permanent
- Role Description
- Kantar TGI (Target Group Index) is the UKs foremost audience planning and buying data currency, used daily by 1,000s of media planners, buyers and salespeople, alongside top tier brand insight and marketing professionals. Our biggest clients include Group M, Omnicom, Publics Groupe, IPG, Amazon, Sky and Facebook, to name but a few. At Kantar TGI we deliver audience and consumer insight that fuels business outcomes across the Insight, Planning and Audience Activation spectrum.
- We are looking for a Finance Business Partner Analyst to support and report directly to Finance Business Partner, Kantar Media UK
- The Role will primary supports the FBP TGI UK and the TGI, Insight and Sports business areas, and additional provides some support to the FBP for Audience UK, and will also liaise with the commercial business team to assist with finance business processes and financial reviews
- Job Role Requirements
- Monthly
- Ownership of the Product databases/data master file for job data/renewals/new business to support revenue
- Hold meetings with business teams to review YTD performance vs target
- Complete revenue and direct costs month end process including discussing and confirming results position with the business
- Tracking revenue and direct cost performance vs Budget/Forecast/PY
- Forecast and Budget
- Roll forward and preparation of the forecast files
- Assist FBP with obtaining updated forecasts via discussions with the business including ad hoc analysis
- Submission of Budgets/Forecasts to Cartesis/OneStream for TGI and Audience
- Other
- Point of contact for the business on day-to-day queries, including PO and job creation
- Supporting any year end audit queries from Group auditors
- Supporting the FBPs for TGI and Audience on ad hoc queries
- Role Requirements
- Flexible, can do, proactive, hands-on attitude
- Strong excel and systems skills
- Good communications skills within Finance and to support the business
- Ability to work efficiently and meet deadlines
- Enjoys working in a division of a large organisation people-based business
- At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
- We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
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- At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
- Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human unde