MERJE are delighted to be partnered with a Retail Bank in their search for a Senior Financial Analyst.
Contract Type: Permanent | Full-time
Location: London or Bradford. Occasional travel to other offices may be required.
The Role:
Reporting into the Head of Financial Planning - Products, responsible for ensuring all budgets and plans are produced in a timely manner and to the level of granularity and accuracy required for submission to executive committees and the Board of directors. Whilst providing analytical support to new business initiatives. Assessing and contributing to business cases for tactical and strategic proposals and monitoring progress.
In your day-to-day role, as a Senior Financial Analyst you will:
Supporting the budget processes through the forecasting of the risk adjusted income for the credit card portfolio.
Working with other areas of the business to ensure their Budget inputs are on time, accurate and at the correct level of granularity (Commercial and Credit Risk). Providing evidence of sign-off of key business assumptions.
Supporting the production of the forecast commentary/presentation to the Group Executive Committee and Group Board for review and approval by providing insight & analysis of the budget as required.
Perform variance analysis Actuals vs. Budget on a monthly basis and feedback into the budget process were appropriate.
Support the preparation of Business cases for new business initiatives
Responsible for supporting ad hoc requests for budget data, analysis and insight from other areas of the business
Developing and maintaining good relationships with commercial and credit risk, divisional finance teams and for improving communication within the Finance function
What will make you stand out?
Experience of financial reporting and planning systems
Knowledge of Anaplan is desirable
Ability to investigate and analyse complex data sets, identifying and pro-actively following up potential data and analytical issues
Ability to identify potential solutions to analytical issues
Ability to identify and implement improvements to forecasting tools and processes
Strong communication skills; able to communicate, verbally and in written documentation, with both senior and junior colleagues across the whole organisation and to explain complex commercial and financial issues to others
Ability to present financial plans and complex data analysis in simplified forms to facilitate review and challenge to enable senior management decision making
Commercial awareness; Able to form views and judgments about financial plans and to challenge plans constructively whilst the ability to propose alternative recommendation
The interview process:
1 hour competency-based interview with the hiring team
Technical test
Final interview with hiring team
Offers are subject to satisfactory background checks, including credit, fraud, and employment references.
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