FP&A Analyst

The FP&A team is an important team in Avis Budget Group, supporting the three pillars of our business – the Sales and Marketing teams for Commercial analysis and sales bids, the Fleet team for vehicle fixed and running cost analysis and management, and the Operations team for cost base analysis and local P&L management. This role is a key local resource for the country business controller, ensuring full support to the General Manager for the Sweden business.
You will have some commercial experience, enjoy problem solving, be able to plan and prioritise effectively and be keen to learn about the business.
You will have developed strong analytical skills, and be able to explain and communicate key financial trends to non-finance teams.
This exciting role offers significant opportunities to learn about the business and influence decision making, and will provide an excellent platform for further progression within the Finance team.
Core activities will include:
Ownership of the fleet optimisation and forecasting processes, to help drive vehicle utilisation across Sweden
Business partnering with the Fleet team, providing costings, analysis and insight to ensure they understand the end to end cost performance of the fleet, and can maximise efficiency and minimise cost
Support and challenge the Operations team in improving station performance and profitability.
Help identify opportunities to drive financial and operational performance improvement through regular and ad-hoc insight and analysis.
Help business partnering with the Swedish General Manager, supporting and challenging them to drive profitable growth.
Responsibility for the forecasting and planning of the Fleet and Operational costs in the Swedish P&L.
Support in the forecasting and planning of the balance sheet and Capex.
Support in the production of the monthly performance pack for the Swedish business for the Northern Region Leadership team, and the EMEA board, using profitability flow tracks, and helping to provide commentary and analysis.
Support our internal management of sub-franchisee holders in Sweden

Key Accountabilities:
Analysis
Uses a range of resources to create insightful and compelling analysis so as to constructively challenge and support business decision making by identifying key drivers which allow easy issue/opportunity resolution

Process Improvement
Interacting with a wide range of stakeholders to bring collaborative solutions. To be able to clearly explain by the use of analysis the key messages helping to understand the data and therefore improve the quality of decision making

Business Optimisation
Provides analytical support to teams to ensure commercial decisions taken are in line with the business plan and therefore maximising revenue opportunities and minimising cost leakage.

Relationship Management
Working with the Swedish FP&A Business Partner to support the General Manager and their Direct teams.

Forecasting and Planning
Support the forecasting and planning process is completed to a high standard and on a timely basis

Data Management
Manages the timely uploading of financial data into company systems so as to enable accurate business forecasting

Requirements:
Degree qualified
Fluent Swedish
Likely to be close to qualifying or a newly qualified accountant
Some commercial experience of planning, forecasting, reporting, analysis, prioritisation and problem solving
Excellent MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint)
Some Business Intelligence (BI) system experience desirable (Hyperion, Tableau)