Finance Analyst

Purpose of the Role:

As a Finance Analyst, you will responsible for fully owning divisional P&L, including conducting trend analysis, monthly reporting and forecasting. You will be a strong and influential business partner across various regions, whilst driving process improvement and cost savings across the business. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Fully own divisional P&L down to Business Contribution Profit
• Prepare trend, variance and performance analysis and communicate to key stakeholders
• Recommend and enforce process improvements, including training of stakeholders
• Build relationships with key stakeholders to identify and mitigate issues impeding the achievement of business goals
• Work closely with the Financial Accounting team on balance sheets, providing detailed back up for journals and reconciliations where necessary
• Provide advice and approvals to the Shared Service Centre as and when they arise
• Run weekly divisional forecast meetings, challenging the business on revenue and gross profit as well as direct selling cost

Key Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:

• Intermediate Excel user (incl vlookups, IF formulae, pivot tables & charts)
• P&L variance analysis experience
• Knowledge & exposure to IFRS accounting rules (Particularly IFRS 15)
• 3+ years professional finance experience  

Desirable:

• Microsoft Office (Outlook / Word / Teams / PowerPoint)
• Microsoft Dynamics Navision
• Experience mentoring / managing 1 or more team members
• Desire to study / progress studies further