Group Financial Analyst - Worcester, United Kingdom - Four Squared

Four Squared

Verified Company

Worcester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Group Financial Analyst

Worcester

£55,000

12 month FTC

Hybrid working / Full time role

Four Squared recruitment are working with a longstanding and reputable business in Worcester on a role for a Senior Financial Analyst.

This role has ownership of the business plan, producing budgets, forecasts and business planning across the business.

You will be responsible for a small FP&A team to develop and maintain accurate, high quality and insightful financial information and analysis to drive strategic planning and decisions in the operations of the business.

Your key responsibilities -

Managing and coaching 12 direct reports
Develop strong working relationships throughout the company to meet the needs of stakeholders in a timely and effective manner
Prepare forecasts of the company's profit and loss (income statement) and operating performance to inform management on the progress and effectiveness of the company's strategic plans and investments
Continuously improve and develop the budgeting, financial forecasting and modelling tools.
Understand the company's historical performance as well as trends that may impact future performance
Monitor performance indicators to highlight and analyse trends, and unexpected variances.
Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes
Develop effective ways to present financial data, including detailed KPI metrics, dashboard reports, indepth and complex financial analysis, to promote improvement in business performance
Analyse complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes
Use data to deliver insights into business performance and present findings (using dashboards and other tools) at all levels in the business including to senior management covering revenue, expenditure, balance sheet and cashflow outputs/analysis
Business partnering with senior stakeholders across the business to assist the business planning, budgeting and forecasting processes
Business partner with various budget holders to communicate budgets and support commercial decisions and acting as a bridge between the finance and operational elements of the business
Assisting in interactions with Private Equity shareholders

What you'll need to succeed

Qualifications
CIMA, ACA or ACCA qualified
Relevant degree

Experience and Skills

3+ years post qualification experience
5+ years' experience in FP&A
Prior experience of software development
Extensive experience in producing complex financial analysis and reports
The ability to build and sustain effective professional working relationships within Finance and the wider operations of the business
A high degree of skill in using Excel, to include advanced macros and data analytical tools
Good knowledge of reporting tools ideally PowerBI
Experience of report writing in Word and producing high quality PowerPoint documents
Prior experience of the financial systems
SAP, Jira and Salesforces