Apex Group

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Global Head of Business Partnering Employee Costs Analytics London, UK

Description

Reporting directly to the Global Head of FP&A, this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced SVP finance professional to lead a high calibre 10 person team and to develop an employee costs analytics, planning and reporting framework.

Emphasis is on elevating analysis, streamline and automate processes and build a strong business partnering function to the Group COO and Support Functions.

A key focus is to ramp up on existing monthly reporting with a focus on KPIs, by region, product and product vs. operations and to provide insights and drivers for month on month variances and variances to plan.

The role will set the group’s guidelines for workforce planning and forecasting and lead on reporting and tracking strategic employee costs initiatives and projects.

Ability to communicate with senior stakeholders, including the Group founder and CEO, the Group CFO, Group COO, Group CHRO, Grop CBO and CCO is key.

Job specification

Build executive presence and daily interaction with senior stakeholders. Stakeholders include:

• Group CEO, Group CFO and Group CHRO
• Chief Operating Officer and Country Heads of Operations
• Chief Product Officer, Product Heads, Support Function Owners
• Chief Business Officer and Regional Business Heads
• Regional Finance Heads and Regional Finance Teams

Produce Monthly Employee Costs Results covering:

• Board pages including key employee costs and headcount messaging (CM vs PM/PY/Plan/FC)
• Monthly group employee costs flash
• Bi-monthly salary costs rolling FC
• Efficiency scores (Revenue/Headcount and Revenue/Salaries) by Product and Region
• Support Functions salaries and headcount monthly reviews (CM vs PM/PY/Plan/FC)
• Salary costs and headcount by region trend analysis
• Salary costs and headcount by product/operations trend analysis

Lead monthly Employee Costs Reviews at a Group Level:

• Drive the monthly group employee costs review process for the Group CEO, CFO, COO including:
• Providing the employee costs early view (Flash)
• Providing drivers and explanations for movements month on month and versus plan, forecast and prior year

Run the Workforce Annual Plan and Forecasting Process and Reviews:

• Set the employee costs strategic plan with the CEO, CFO, COO, CBO and CHRO
• Set out the employee costs plan guidelines and monitor the plan process
• Provide insight to the plan
• Deliver a rolling salary costs and headcount forecast together with the group FP&A team

Ad Hoc:

• Develop and assist with rolling out salary costs BI reporting
• Board, Lender, CEO and CFO queries
• Regular interaction with product line, operations and regional teams on employee costs related topics

Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance
• Demonstrable success in delivering employee costs and headcount analysis
• Demonstrable success in delivering workforce plans
• Good communication and writing skills to support commentary for senior executives
• Knowledge of Workday and Adaptive Planning (group management reporting system) an added advantage
• Attention to details
• Minimum 10 years Post Qualification experience
• Demonstrable Team Player in a Global Team
• Build excellent working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
• Motivate and empower team members by building their capabilities
• Ensure reporting deliverables are produced and reviewed to a high standard and delivered in a timely manner
• Encourage a healthy working environment for the team

What you will get in return:

• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business
• Competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience;
• Training and development opportunities
• A high level of visibility within a large organisation on an upwards trajectory
• Being part of a high performing team with a strong team culture

Additional information:

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision are made on the basis of skills, qualifications and experiences.

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.

For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please visit https://theapexgroup.com/csr-policy/

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.