Senior Financial Analyst - City of London, United Kingdom - Nucleus Global

Nucleus Global

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City of London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Overview
ApotheCom is a world-leading medical strategy agency with an extensive track record of success. We are now recruiting for a talented and driven Senior Financial Analyst to join our operations team. The Senior Financial Analyst will act as the financial leadwith respect to revenue recognition, forecasting and project auditing.

This includes financial tracking, reporting, and collaborating with account team members to proactively update project information in accordance with the Company's standard financial practicesand controls.

There will also be a need to support month end closing activities, as well as other accounting responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Establish strong working relationships with small finance team and key stakeholders
Provide finance support to specific client facing teams, ensuring financial reporting system is properly maintained
Hold monthly meeting with account leads to review performance against forecast and monitor KPIs
Process monthly project revenue in the finance system, reconciling to expectation
Understand the impact of foreign currency transactions on jobs
Proactively investigate areas of concern, following up with key stakeholders until issue is properly resolved
Ensure working capital targets are maintained through prompt invoicing and cost forecasting.
Be responsible for the freelancer financial management piece of the business
Help on month end/year end activities including being responsible for certain Balance Sheet transactions
Other ad hoc projects as requested

What We're Looking For

Prior experience of working in a communications agency or a similar environment
ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified or part qualified preferred
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
A proactive selfstarter and natural relationship builder
Comfortable working in an informal, unbureaucratic environment
Have strong organizational skills in terms of time management, prioritization, and workload management
Ability to thrive in a fastpaced environment, work to and within multiple deadlines and to juggle multiple projects
Keen attention to detail, ability to prioritize responsibilities and work in a teamoriented environment as well as independently

Core Competencies:

Champion for client needs and excellence in delivery

Understand who the customer is for any ask
Awareness of customer needs and demonstrating flexibility to adapt processes to improve the customer experience
Ability to lead conversations with client teams on financial performance of projects
Demonstrate the ability to tailor communications to be appropriate to the audience and their needs
Demonstrate the ability to meet deadlines, set timescales and prioritise
Take responsibility and personal pride in work

Teamwork and collaboration

Willingness to collaborate with the team to achieve common goals
Engender team spirit, trust, respect and take collective responsibility for team successes and areas for improvement
Ability to take and provide transparent and honest feedback, and respect the views of others
Demonstrate verbal, nonverbal and activelistening skills to both problemsolve and help build relationships
Capacity for multitasking, paired with a willingness to pitchin and help with tasks across the business as required
Displays a keen selfawareness of professional capacity and proactively takes steps to develop