Join us as a Business Unit Reporting Analyst
* You’ll be helping to deliver our end-to-end Business Unit Reporting control activities for each of our franchise and legal entities and assisting our customers at a senior level in key finance areas
* Day-to-day, you’ll be establishing working relationships with key stakeholders in Product Control, Financial Control and other customers within the wider Finance function
* If you’re ready for a new challenge in a solutions-driven role, and want to bring a competitive edge to your career profile, this could be the position that you’ve been looking for
* We offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be based in our Manchester office at least two days a week, with the rest of your time working from home
What you’ll do
Your daily responsibilities will see you reviewing product level data outputs from the Product Control teams to make sure that they’re appropriately recorded and substantiated and reflect our position. To do this, you’ll be complying with policies and considering the effectiveness of our controls on a regular basis.
In addition, you’ll be delivering within the service level agreement to provide a full set of high quality and consistently accurate financial outputs in order to support statutory, regulatory and management reporting.
Your top priorities will include:
* Ensuring the delivery of monthly, quarterly and annual financial information to support internal and external reporting, adding value added commentary and analysis for your area
* Undertaking activities that are assigned to you on a timely basis, ensuring all reports and outputs are produced on time and are of high quality
* Supporting change initiatives, process improvements and systems implementations that are related to our processes and applications
* Identifying process improvement opportunities and sharing them with the reviewer, lead or wider team
* Troubleshooting queries and submitting KPIs on a timely basis
The skills you’ll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll be a qualified accountant or be working towards a qualification and have a background of being part of global teams of finance professionals, working to tight deadlines and managing key finance deliverables.
Furthermore, you’ll need:
* Experience of managing the delivery of core financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audits
* The ability to build and enhance relationships with key stakeholders across the finance function