Fp&a Analyst - Swindon, United Kingdom - Page Personnel Finance

Page Personnel Finance

Verified Company

Swindon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

FP&A Cost Analyst will play a key part in the development of the FP&A team within the Group Finance function.

Reporting to the Senior FP&A Analyst, this role is responsible for P&L department reporting, cost tracking and forecasting.

This role is key inmaximising the company's use of financial data to understand and drive performance, through analysing OPEX and identifying trends, risks and opportunities to provide business insight.

Client Details

A_ leading international healthcare business.

Description

General:

Responsible for preparing the monthly P&Ls as part of the monthly management accounts preparation, ensuring the provision of accurate, relevant, and timely information to the business, including actual performance and forecast.
Maintain timely accurate recording of costs through creation of accruals and reforecast based on the latest information provided by the business.
Responsible for the Budgeting, Financial forecasting, and scenario analysis relating to Central G&A departments and provide consolidated Group reporting.
Review costs to ensure coding is matched to budget activity and is consistent.
Attend and lead regular meetings with Corporate Budget holders to review spend to date and ensure forecast accuracy.

Business Partnering:

Business Partnering with Supply Chain, IT, Facilities, Regulatory, Medical, Legal, Finance etc, to:
Maintain cost trackers that compare YTD, forecast and budget data for each department to support Corporate Budget holders to track and understand spend.
Ensure variance analysis to Budget and Forecast are provided.
Provide financial decisionmaking support and adhoc analysis to Corporate Budget holders.
Identify opportunities / risks to the business forecast.

Group Headcount reporting:

Responsible for the Group headcount model for Budget/forecast and actuals through the year.
Perform variance analysis to budget and forecast across the Group by region and department.
Attending HR meetings and business partnering with the HR team.
Support the Senior FP&A Analyst with insight and creation of presentations to report to SLT.

BI:

Use Prophix to investigate and manipulate financial data in an efficient way to provide analysis and ad hoc data requests.
Design and automate report creation to improve insight and efficiencies to support Corporate Budget holders to selfserve.

Other:

Business process improvement utilising your experience and business knowledge to challenge and improve the financial reporting, analysis and planning processes and outputs we deliver to senior management and across the group.
Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes.
Provide high quality adhoc analysis as required.

Profile

Essential:

Part qualified accountant.
Background in financial or management accounting.
Strong excel skills and confident at maintaining a financial model and cost trackers.
Proven track record of business partnering, or demonstrable background of communicating financial information to non finance stakeholders.

Desireable: