Job Description

Company Description

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.


Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

The Role

We are looking for a 13 month FTC to support the PDT (Product, data, technology) arms of our business. Acting as a trusted partner to ensure business strategy is implemented, you will be a key point of challenge and control working directly with SLT members.

You will need to be able to think on your feet and find creative solutions to data and process issues where there is not always an existing solution. You will need to be able to put in place KPIs and metrics for the business, build robust business cases and you will be an expert in modelling, forecasting budgeting and stakeholder management. You will be comfortable with revenue and overheads, and ideally understand a subscriptions business.


The right candidate will be comfortable dealing with C-Suite level individuals, and able to constructively challenge to ensure we are on track. You will be passionate about accurate detail and able to easily manipulate data in manual processes, whilst also exploring every opportunity for best practice and automation through our FP&A software (Anaplan) to future proof ways of working. You will be highly visual in your presenting style, able to tell a story from facts and data and keen to explore new visualisations or metrics to summarise your points clearly.


You will need brilliant excel skills, great presentation skills and fantastic people and influencing skills to work as a valued member of the business as well as finance. The right candidate will be a highly commercial team player skilled in working in a fast paced environment and comfortable with working through transformational change.

Principal Accountabilities

Act as Finance Business Partner to the Technology, Product and Data teams to provide insights and analysis Oversight and tracking of new product launches Work with the procurement team and Head of Business partnering to identify areas for business improvement and increased profitability Lead budget and forecast processes and overlays for PDT Work with the business to embed ways of working in Anaplan, as well as working on continual improvement and evolution of our processes and dashboards Work with the Data team to produce dashboards and metrics in Salesforce / Qlik / Anaplan as required to answer business needs Produce and present decks as required, including effective graphics, charts and visualisations Produce variance analysis, understanding and commentary Business partner key stakeholders across the overhead functions Challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders to improve business performance while considering financial implications Challenge of costs, looking for and tracking synergies, efficiencies and identifying any gaps Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes - - ability to distil complex technical information into clear simple messages Assess business performance and strive for a deeper understanding of business levers and underlying drivers Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives and help drive financial decisions Analyse trends in key performance indicators highlighting commercial opportunities and risks Respond to ad-hoc requests according to business needs

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world's leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.


If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.


We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Excellent attention to detail Excellent Excel skills; experience turning large data sets into clear summaries and conclusions Finance qualification or equivalent High commercial acumen, intellectual curiosity and critical thinking Takes personal responsibility to meet commitments and actively seeks additional responsibility Good knowledge of accounting systems (ideally NetSuite) and FP&A systems (ideally Anaplan). PowerPoint skills (thinkcell experience a plus); experience building decks for C Suite stakeholders An ability to prioritise workload and meet targets set by others

Personal Attributes

Outstanding attention to detail - ability to present accurate information precisely and confidently across the business Proactive team player with strong work ethic Flexible "can do" solution orientated attitude Excellent interpersonal skills, good at relationship management Integrity, sound judgement and decision-making ability Able to work to tight deadlines and deliver in a change environment Able to work independently in a remote environment to still deliver results Able to build relationships and trust remotely Comfortable working with ambiguity and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It's this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.


Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

METRICS DRIVEN.

We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance

ACCOUNTABLE.

We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done

GROWTH MINDSET

. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency

INCLUSIVE.

We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.

CUSTOMER CENTRIC.

We are customer-centric in all that we do

COLLABORATIVE.

We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You've read a little about us - now it's over to you!

If you like what you've read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it's time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it's used to determine whether or not you'll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we'll ask you on the day.


It's vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you're great.