Finance Business Partner Associate Director

Job Description The NielsenIQ Finance Business Partner (FBP) plays a critical leadership role in the Commercial organization. FBP’s are key members of the regional, functional and global leadership teams, and play a unique role in driving clarity, transparency, actions and performance improvement in all areas of value creation. As a senior finance leader at NIQ, your accountabilities span both strategic and executional management, and require excellence in collaboration, influencing and team building. Senior finance leaders role-model critical behaviors on behalf of the whole business. Job Description - Provide senior level finance business partnering support for the WEU Nordics cluster and WEU Regional Retailer Vertical. Finance business partnering key accountabilities: - Driving performance - Lead financial performance management & reporting, ensuring clear, accurate timely reporting (forecasts, actuals, OP, 3YP) - Provide fact-based, actionable insights to drive value creation across the entire business - Drive a transparent, clear narrative on performance drivers, execution requirements, risks and ops etc. - Lead continuous improvement in reporting, forecasting and planning to drive simplification and standardization - Partner closely with regional FP&A to drive clarity, simplicity & speed in all financial reporting and planning - Leading the development of the periodic forecasts, collaborating with various departments to gather input and ensure alignment with strategic goals - Building and maintaining financial models to analyze different scenarios, assess business performance and make informed decisions - Conducting in-depth analysis of financial and operational performance, identifying trends, key performance indicators (KPI) and areas for improvement - - Strategy development & execution - Partner with commercial leaders to develop a world-class commercial strategy & supporting 3-year plan (3YP) - Drive execution of the strategy – develop, manage performance, communicate & cascade and proactively course-correct - Partner with key stakeholders to embed commercial strategic direction into key processes and ways of working - Providing financial insights and analysis to support strategic decision making, such as investments, cost optimization and resource allocation - Controls & Governance - Actively partner with other finance teams to create & maintain an environment of strong internal controls, good governance and efficient financial processes - Leadership and team management key accountabilities: - Talent development - Recruit and retain a team of engaged capable finance professionals - Ensure clarity in ‘what’s expected’ – role definition, performance, development - Drive a growth mindset and performance culture among the team - Focus on personal and professional development throughout the down-line - Leadership - Role-model critical leadership behaviors, in particular – collaboration, active listening, managerial courage, standing alone, powerful influencing - Leverage the matrixed organization to drive alignment and clarity - Actively enroll and manage all internal and external stakeholders, and make use of subject-matter experts - Develop financial acumen in others