Global Business Analyst

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

1/28/2025

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Global Business Analyst is part of group FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) team and will play a pivotal role in driving strategic decision-making processes by analysing financial data, creating insightful reports, and ensuring quality reporting for Group Controller, ELT and Investor Relations.

The dynamics in Arcadis are big. The company has ambitious growth plans, both organically and via acquisitions. This dynamic environment challenges the financial department to combine day-to-day business with continuous process improvement, integration of new entities and due diligence of potential acquisitions. The Global Business Analyst will become part of a dedicated team of finance professionals supporting senior management in successfully moving Arcadis into the next growth phase.

Reporting lines: Global Business Analyst Director

Role accountabilities:

• Support the Global Business Analyst Director with analysis of monthly and quarterly results and contribution to monthly and quarterly decks.
• Supports with validation, review and analysis of performance including value-adding insights for the BAs and subject matter assigned
• Works closely with Business Areas (BAs) to review and understand performance including submission requirements to ensure timely reporting and consistent approach across BAs and Global Business Areas (GBAs).
• Support BA and GBA teams in improving the quality of the management reports and business analysis, ensuring standard and central reporting is used. Facilitate knowledge sharing between operating companies and Corporate and cross operating companies on finance related matters
• Supports production of reports to be issued to various stakeholders, including Investor Relations, GBAs, Growth Teams and wider Finance community.
• Supports with validation to ensure consistency of financial information across reporting platforms (OneStream, Power BI, Oracle).
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including GBAs, BI&A, EF, project management and Growth teams to understand and address business needs.
• Performs reporting platform tests (OneStream) to support updates and improvements on process workflows
• Supports in identifying areas to increase efficiency and automation of processes with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Support the quarterly Forecast and annual Budgeting cycles led by the Global FP&A team.
• Companywide analysis to understand current and future business performance.
• Conduct scenario analysis and sensitivity testing to support business decision
• Supports Global FP&A with ad hoc analysis as required.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• The candidate should have a minimum of 3 years of experience, ideally in a role that requires business / data analysis, financial planning and management reporting.
• The ideal candidate will be a recently qualified accountant, or part qualified and close to completion of studies, although we welcome applicants with an alternative qualification structure if suitable for the role.
  
  

Other required competencies for this role:

• Excellent communication, strong negotiating and influencing skills.
• Self-starter with strong collaboration and team skills.
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and result driven attitude.
• Resilient and willingness to work flexible hours based on business needs.
• IT literate with ERP, forecasting and Planning tool experience preferable
• Native language: unspecified, but fluency in English is a must
  
  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.