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Job Details
Salary: Competitive per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Flexible working with up to 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 19th February 2025
In a nutshell
As a Finance Analyst, you will gain experience across a wide variety of areas within Financial Planning by supporting financial appraisals and providing insightful analysis, focusing on the utilisation of data and analytics.
Continually look to improve the understanding of business performance and be a trusted advisor and facilitator of productive business & financial conversations. You will be responsible for performance analysis and controls to support the business strategy, supporting in the development of the forecast and budget process. You will also use data analysis tools to produce a consolidated picture for decisions to be made for our leaders across the business.
Day to day
* Assemble and produce regular reporting and analysis, developing insights from past performance.
* Offer detailed insight into the forecast showing risks and opportunities.
* Recommend improved reporting, either progressing existing reports or developing new items.
* Ensure that teams understand their P&L responsibilities and offer support tools to assist.
* Utilise data visualisation tools to ensure dynamic and appropriate reporting of financial data.
* Provide updated forecasts and support the Long-Term Plan for strategic decision making.
* Offer finance support to the Business and establish effective internal controls.
* Work with the wider Finance team to improve processes and finance efficiency and bring about a well-controlled environment.
* Interpret results and communicate effectively to ensure controls are improved and embedded in the business.
About you
Are you an effective communicator, with strong experience in financial modelling and PowerBI?
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
* Ideally studying ACCA or CIMA but not essential
* Expertise in using Microsoft Excel and other software tools to develop and produce high-quality financial models capable of gathering financial and non-financial data to identify problems or answer questions, and deliver robust, structured solutions that integrate with existing models and/or generate practical financial recommendations.
* Comfortable analysing data, using a multitude of formulas and other key functionality to review, interpret and summarise key messages. Once analysis is performed, confident to present in a format that highlights key findings, actions, and recommendations.
* Expertise in using Data Visualisation tools like PowerBI, with the ability to build high-quality reports from scratch.
* Capable of using Microsoft PowerPoint and other reporting tools to produce slides, reports and decks that can share important financial messages.
* Experience of partnering with financial and business stakeholders, possessing the interpersonal skills to build a network of contacts that will be both the input and recipient of key financial outputs from the Financial Planning team.
* Proven ability to work at a fast pace, capable of working simultaneously on more than one task.
* Desirable but not essential is system-based experience with TM1.
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
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