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 

1. 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. 

2. 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. 

3. 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. 

4. 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 

Success will be measured by the Specialist's ability to: 

• Provide timely and insightful financial advice to business leaders. 

• Improve the quality and accuracy of budgets, forecasts, and management reporting. 

• Identify and support delivery of performance improvement opportunities. 

• Strengthen financial governance and accountability across the business. 

• Build effective relationships and increase the value that Finance provides to operational decision-making.