Core Roles and Responsibilities
• Transitioning Excel reports into automated AI reports that deliver business insights real time.
• Partner with commercial and functional teams across ZURU to understand what is driving performance, gather the context behind the numbers, and support decisions with clear financial analysis.
• Analyse financial and commercial data — revenue, cost, margin, headcount — to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement across departments and business units.
• Support the monthly management reporting process: performance reporting, variance analysis, and clear narratives that distil complex data into actionable insight for senior leadership.
• Assist in the preparation of the quarterly rolling forecast, annual budget, and longer-range plans: collect business inputs, challenge assumptions, and build and maintain the underlying models and consolidations.
• Prepare ad-hoc analysis and business cases for the FP&A Manager and senior leadership.
• Support broader Group Finance activities as priorities evolve — including P&L and balance sheet reviews, month-end reporting, and other key Finance initiatives across the team.
• Build strong working relationships and knowledge with ZURU’s global finance teams, including our China-based finance team, developing a solid understanding of how the numbers are produced.
• Continuously improve Finance’s processes, data, and reporting: help automate recurring work, build self-serve datasets and reporting, and standardise templates and definitions across divisions — leveraging AI tools as a core part of how the team operates.
• Champion ZURU’s continuous-improvement mindset: constantly seek ways to optimise how Finance works and challenge the status quo.