Finance Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Resource Solutions

Description

SENIOR FINANCE ANALYST Salary:
£500 - £600 per day (inside IR35)

Location:
Hybrid working in London
Contract length - 6 months

This role will be of interest to a qualified accountant with significant post-qualified experience in business partnering, budgeting, forecasting, management accounting and third-party contract management.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make a difference by engaging with a variety of stakeholders at a senior level within the Divisions and PSR.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career through experience gained and mentoring/support from senior Finance colleagues.

• Opportunity to engage with a variety of stakeholders at a senior level
• Mentoring and support from senior Finance colleagues

As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will play an integral role in supporting the organisation's Operations and Legal Division. You will be responsible for providing insightful financial management information that aids strategic decision making and forward planning. Your ability to highlight risks and opportunities will be crucial in helping directors manage their financial positions effectively. With your strong analytical skills, you will lead on providing financial and data analysis insights. Your role will also involve improving resource management practices across the Division while providing expert advice to senior stakeholders. Provide Finance Business Partnering to the Divisions (at Director and HoD level) and subdivisions, covering the financial performance of the business areas

• Prepare and provide financial management information for strategic decision making and forward planning
• Highlight risks and opportunities to support ED, Directors and HoDs to manage the financial position within the budget envelopes for each area
• Lead on providing financial and data analysis and insight
• Lead in improvements in resource management practices across the Division and provide expertise to senior level stakeholders
• Provide stakeholders with expert, fact-based financial management advice, strengthening and managing key stakeholder relationships
• Regularly train and coach colleagues in the Division, at all levels, on our financial management processes
• Pre-empt, proactively follow up and resolve ad-hoc financial management issues
• The ideal candidate for the Senior Finance Analyst role is a qualified accountant with 3-5 years post-qualification experience. You will have strong business partnering skills and be proficient in using Workday for budgeting, financial reporting and Adaptive Planning. Your strong excel and financial modelling skills will enable you to work with large volumes of data effectively. You will also have the ability to assess and analyse large bodies of information, providing technical accounting guidance where necessary. Strong business partnering skills with the ability to present financial MI on a regular basis to senior stakeholders
• Proficient with Workday for use of budgeting, financial reporting and Adaptive Planning (MI Dashboards)
• Strong excel and financial modelling skills (Scenario Analysis) with the ability to work with and manipulate large volumes of data
• Ability to assess and analyse voluminous and/or data-heavy bodies of information, scenario, and financial modelling
• Technical accounting guidance - Provide guidance on accounting for costs, provide approval for contract, purchase orders and month end journals within Operations
• This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation that values its employees and offers opportunities for growth and development.