Finance Analyst - St. Albans, United Kingdom - Aila Recruitment

Aila Recruitment

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St. Albans, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Finance Analyst

£55,000 - £65,000 + Bonus & benefits

Aila is excited to be exclusively partnered with the UK's leading operator within its field and a large multi-site business in the recruitment of an ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified Finance Analyst on a permanent basis, in a brilliant role for somebody looking to leadon FP&A projects, business partner around a large business and get direct and daily exposure to the senior leadership team.

Our client has an impressive brand reputation with unrivalled growth achievements within its area of specialty and they're a great business to work for.

Private Equity backed and with a £3bn turnover, they operate through over 900 sites nationwide and haverecently been recognised in the Sunday Times Top Track 100.

They have a hybrid working policy of 3 days in the office, and two remote.

The role is an exciting and variable role that takes responsibility for leading and develop analysis for the group and supporting the management team to drive the business forward.

You will also look to develop insight through performance analysis of the wholegroup.

This role is a typical commercial and analytical FP&A role that has some weekly and monthly reporting requirements, but also has a large focus on capital spending and its ROI.

We are looking for a newly qualified accountant or 1-2 years PQE, who is comfortable working for a large corporate business and has exposure to an FP&A role where they've led on projects, built relationships successfully with senior management and is comfortablein a complex and fast-paced environment.

You will have a strong finance background with good analysis skills, including monthly performance and returns on capital investment. It is essential you have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to identifycommercial opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide analytical support and insight to three Divisional Directors
Responsible for tracking capital expenditure and providing an ongoing rolling forecast to the business to understand future resource requirements
Pre and Post investment review of development programme
Production and review of weekly MI and Exec reports
Provide commercial support to the trading team
Regular KPI reporting on the fuel and retail performance of the business
Develop customer friendly 'front end' reporting of trends
Production and development of the Board report
Analysis of performance for fuel, retail and forecourt businesses
Support the budgeting and forecasting process taking ownership of account lines / businesses areas as required
Ad hoc analysis to support various business initiatives
Continuous improvement of business processes