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- Commercial Finance Analyst - Fully Qualified
- Minimum of 2 years PQE
- Duration: 9-Month Day Rate Contract
- Location: Reading | Hybrid (2-3 days per week on site
- You must be eligible to work in the UK without the need for Sponsorship
- You must be available to start immediately
Join a dynamic Commercial Finance team, where you will play a vital role in financial analysis. Your responsibilities will include management & financial accounting, business partnering, decision support, reporting, contract management, budgeting, and forecasting.
As a key member of the team, you will contribute to the development and execution of the road map/strategy. Your financial expertise will be crucial in shaping the 5-year business plan and supporting the team-level strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- To be the finance subject matter expert and act as business partner.
- Responsible for production of 5 year plans, quarterly business plans and requisite analysis and presentation to shareholders.
- Understanding and pre-empting the needs of the Shareholders and answering their queries efficiently and effectively for all aspects of finance.
- Accountability and responsibility for owning month end processes for their own area as well as providing support to other teams members when required.
- Work with Financial Accounting Team to produce the month end results and Financial Reporting with relevant commentary and high-quality analysis.
- Influencing a wide variety of stakeholders, including many senior stakeholders such as ELT and SMT to ensure financial targets are met, controls are not breached and accuracy is high.
- Articulating complex financial concepts in a simplified way to make it easier for all to understand.
- Provide financial rigour to ensure delivery of towards overall delivery of Capex and Opex targets.
- Understand existing processes and implement enhancements where appropriate. Not focussing on just fixing issues but driving change where this will lead to greater ways of working and efficiencies.
- Maintain finance control environment for the business area as well as suggesting and implementing improvement plans for the business area.
- Opex and Capex management.
- Identify cost savings opportunities and drive/implement the processes needed to achieve the cost savings and help meet corporate financial targets set by shareholders.
- Working with the contract managers and procurement teams to ensure the effective financial management of contracts as well as driving cost saving initiatives
- Act as business partner and advisor for the business teams, shareholders and suppliers providing advice, support and consultancy services.
- Produce financial analysis/modelling of commercial deals and decision support.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with shareholders and vendor teams.
- Support Commercial Finance Manager in managing the budget and provide ad-hoc support to the Head of Commercial Finance and Finance Director to deliver a trusted Business Partnering relationship with stakeholders internally and across shareholder and supplier organisations.
Qualifications and Experience Needed
- Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA accountant or similar with at least 2 years post qualified experience.
- Experience in managing senior stakeholders and significant and complex contracts
- Strong Excel and financial modelling skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and highly analytical
- Excellent communicator and possesses a curious mind
- Keen problem solver
- Delivers high quality work by the deadline
- Able to influence and negotiate to meet their needs
- Collaborates effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Telco experience
- Experience of using IFS
Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
