Finance Analyst-t7860 - Liverpool, United Kingdom - The Riverside Group

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Description

Job Title:
Finance Analyst


Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2024


Salary:
£34,470


Working Hours:
Full-Time 35 hours


Working Pattern:
Monday - Friday

**Location: Liverpool


Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we're a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers.

For 90 years, we've been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK.

Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.


Working with us, you'll enjoy:

  • Competitive pay & generous pension
  • 28 days holidays plus bank holidays (pro rata)
  • Flexible working options available
  • Investment in your learning, personal development and technology A wide range of benefits

The difference you will make as a Finance Analyst:

You Undertake routine financial analysis to support the provision of business insight for effective operational activity and financial decision making.


About You


You will be Partly or fully CCAB/CIMA qualified or equivalent with strong analytical skills and the ability to carry out financial planning, analysis and reporting.


Role Profile

  • Perform routine financial planning, analysis and reporting to support the preparation of actuals performance reporting, budgets and forecasts.
  • Provide financial insight analysis, including the translation of routine financial data, identifying trends, patterns and anomalies.
  • Ensure financial performance variances are monitored and tracked to provide the business with current financial information.
  • Undertake modelling, scenario planning, business case preparation and option appraisal to support decision making and business performance.
  • Ensure that the business has robust financial data by reviewing and validating its integrity and quality.
  • Input into statutory, regulatory or other external reporting as directed, (either specific to the business area or corporate).
  • Manage internal customer relationships effectively and signpost customers to other services within the Department to ensure they can efficiently access the service they require.
  • Respond to routine or basic queries from internal customer and stakeholders, ensuring that the response is timely and compliant with the relevant control processes and frameworks.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
  • Ensure that all data protection requirements are met in accordance with Group policy, procedures and statutory requirements.
  • Ensure that health and safety requirements are met in accordance with Group policy, procedures and statutory requirements. Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required to support the effective operation of the service.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

  • Partly or fully CCAB/CIMA qualified or equivalent.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Ability to carry out financial planning, analysis and reporting.
  • Ability to work with complex information to identify trends and patterns.
  • An understanding of financial control.
  • Ability to show initiative, propose solutions to issues identified and take ownership of tasks.
  • Ability to work flexibly to meet business requirements.
  • Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure, deliver to strict deadlines and manage conflicting priorities.
  • Customer focused with excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work at all levels within the business.
  • Commercially aware with a focus on continuous improvement.
  • Comfortable with working in a matrix environment with a range of stakeholders.

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