Our client, operating within the Environmental, Manufacturing, and Engineering sectors, is currently seeking a Finance Analyst on a contract basis. The Finance Analyst is responsible for providing accurate and timely business information to the Senior Business Partner and cost owners.
Job Requirements:
- Financial qualification - CIMA, ACA, ACCA
- Experience in financial analysis within a complex global organisation
- Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills, including Power Query
- SAP/Tagetik experience an advantage
- Effective communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to collaborate on challenges and convey complex financial information
Key Responsibilities:
- Cost reporting
- Ensuring all costs are correctly categorised in line with Group guidelines
- Co-ordinating corrections as required
- Reporting actual costs to stakeholders with supporting explanations for unusual and large transactions
- Working with cost owners to review and update forecast costs
- Reporting actual costs by project for R&D projects
- Collaborating with R&D owner to forecast project spend
- Consolidating payroll inputs from different business unit entities
- Ensuring costs are correctly analysed in line with the budget
- Flagging unusual transactions and risks to forecast
- Coordinating forecast inputs
- Preparing management reports, including analysis by Growth Solution
- Providing supporting details for reports, explaining key variances
- Forecasting depreciation and software spend
- Supporting month-end processes, such as allocation postings and preparation of performance packs
If you are a fully qualified Finance Analyst looking for a new opportunity to further develop your career, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic team.