Headcount and Salary Analyst
We currently have an opportunity for someone to make a real contribution to our analysis of colleague related spend, budgets and head count data. This will provide the business with invaluable support in resource decision making.
Working closely with both Finance and HR teams you will provide support to the stakeholders to identify areas for improvement, monitor salary/colleague costs and data, and support decision making.
About us
The UK's number one residential surveying brand, e.surv Chartered Surveyors and Walker Fraser Steele have been providing property risk expertise and residential surveying services for over 35 years. We are the trusted partner for a variety of stakeholders ranging from high street mortgage lenders and building society's to national landlords and equity release brands.
Every 12 seconds, one of our 600 RICS accredited surveyors completes a property inspection from Land's End to John O'Groats and across Northern Ireland.
Benefits
- Hybrid Working
- Career progression opportunities
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Share schemes (SAYE & BAYE)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity
- HSF, subsidised health fund
- Private healthcare, Critical illness cover and Health assessments via salary sacrifice
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing support - subsidised gym membership - cycle to work scheme - health assured employee assistance scheme
- Dental insurance - subsidised
- Discounted mortgage advice, estate agency fees and home surveys
- Cycle to work scheme
- Charitable giving scheme
Duties
- Develop and continuously improve a forecasting model to track budget, actual and forecast salary and headcount data, by role, by role type and cost centre, by month.
- Maintain the salary and headcount/FTE forecasting model, on an ongoing basis - inputting actual data, approved changes to salary/roles and with forecasting insights gained from cost centre manager meetings
- Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting for colleague-related spend, variances and provide insightful management information enabling informed business decisions.
- Perform variance analysis on costs and headcounts comparing to budgets, quarterly forecast, and prior years, with associated commentary
- Create reconciliations in a variety of formats including tables and waterfalls, to present the data is a clear, easily understood and visual manner.
- Create KPIs, reports and analytics to improve visibility and transparency of the trends and forecasts
- Make suggestions to support decision making regarding resourcing strategies. Working alongside HR, MI and Finance, ensure accuracy and completeness of all colleague data, including workforce analytics, headcount, compensation, and other colleague-related metrics.
- Identify and implement process improvements to drive improved reporting and understand of colleague related costs and data
- Participate in special projects and initiatives related to colleague costs and reporting, including system, data and process related projects.
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation.
Skills
- Strong financial analytical skills with experience in managing cost models and forecasting spend in a commercial finance role.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable interacting with senior management.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage high volumes of data.
- Ability to deliver complex financial analysis on various levels in a clear and concise way.
- Demonstrate experience of driving change and continuous process improvement to meet business needs.
- Excellent Excel skills and experience working with other databases and reporting tools.
- Experience of creating reports and analysis in a variety of media, including graphs, tables, presentation software.
Qualifications & Experience
- Part qualified accountant or qualified through relevant experience in an accounting role.
- Previous experience in a business facing finance role, preferably FP&A role
- Experience of developing budgets, forecasts and KPIs
- Demonstrated ability to implement process improvements.
- Experience in providing financial analysis and modelling to support strategy development and business decisions.
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PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING - All of our employees have to pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process in order to work with our lender clients, if you are unsure on this, ask the team and we'll be happy to explain the process.