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Senior Finance Analyst - Financial Reporting

Walker Dendle Financial Recruitment
Posted a day ago, valid for 19 days
Location

Leatherhead, Surrey KT24 6TB, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Senior Analyst position is a fixed-term contract role within the Finance Technology & Transformation team.
  • Candidates should have at least 2 years of experience in a financial analyst role and hold a professional finance qualification or relevant degree.
  • The role involves preparing monthly management reports, analyzing variances, and supporting budget development for cost center managers.
  • The position requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in MS Excel, and the ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.
  • The salary for this role is competitive and commensurate with experience.

The Role

The Senior Analyst is an FTC role within the Finance Technology & Transformation team. The position is designed to support the Finance Business Partner for the Global IT HUB in providing accurate and timely financial reporting to enable Senior Stakeholders to gain full insight into the current financial positions against budgets and forecasts. This will include working closely with Finance and Business Leads on the calculation of accruals, ensuring actuals are reported in line with accounting guidelines and providing timely monthly reporting with commentary on variances.

Key Responsibilities

Preparation of monthly management reporting information for cost centre managers, highlighting key performance indicators and variances.Review P&L transactions to ensure that costs are coded in line with budgets ensuring the correct allocation between recurring and non-recurring.Analyse variances between actual, budgeted and forecasted costs, investigating reasons for discrepancies.Support cost centre managers to develop and manage their Annual Budgets and forecasts, utilising standard budgeting templates.Responsible for updating the consolidated resource plan forecast for areas under your remit.Working closely with Finance Leads on the calculation of monthly accruals for the Global Technology HUB including intercompany recharge accrual journals, ensuring the accurateness of the invoices received and advising accounts payable on the coding of the invoices.Support the preparation of Global Technology Reporting ensuring actuals and forecast is mapped accurately to the Company domains and providing commentary on variances.Support the financial aspects of the vendor management process, including Purchase Orders, Invoice payments and cost control.Provide ad hoc financial insights and analysis to support decision-making by various stakeholders.Support the team in implementing controls mechanism and finding continuous improvement to processes.Other accounting administration duties may be assigned.

Successful Applicant

Professional finance (full or part) qualification (e.g., CIMA, ACCA, ACA) or relevant degree.2+ years in financial analyst role professional accounting and/or financial management experience.Strong analytical abilities, attention to detail and accuracy of work.Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.Clear written and verbal communications will be needed to work effectively within the Technology & Transformation teams and other key stakeholders in the accounting and procurement teams.High proficiency in MS Excel skills to build financial models and automated reporting mechanisms, as well as methods to consolidate certain details into summarized reports.Ability to quickly learn new Oracle Fusion and other financial applications and leverage to drive automation and improved controls.Ability to take large data sets and effectively analyse and summarize into information.Logical, self-motivated, and proactive with strong analytical skills.High level of intellectual curiosity and persistence

We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive, if you have not heard from us within 10 days, your application has not been successful on this occasion. However, please do continue to apply for jobs advertised by Walker Dendle.Walker Dendle Limited acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Walker Dendle is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. By applying to this position, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the terms available on our website.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.