Finance Analyst

Our client, operating within the Environmental, Manufacturing, and Engineering sectors, is currently seeking a Finance Analyst on a contract basis. The Finance Analyst is responsible for providing accurate and timely business information to the Senior Business Partner and cost owners.

• Financial qualification - CIMA, ACA, ACCA
• Experience in financial analysis within a complex global organisation
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills, including Power Query
• SAP/Tagetik experience an advantage
• Effective communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to collaborate on challenges and convey complex financial information

• Cost reporting
• Ensuring all costs are correctly categorised in line with Group guidelines
• Co-ordinating corrections as required
• Reporting actual costs to stakeholders with supporting explanations for unusual and large transactions
• Working with cost owners to review and update forecast costs
• Reporting actual costs by project for R&D projects
• Collaborating with R&D owner to forecast project spend
• Consolidating payroll inputs from different business unit entities
• Ensuring costs are correctly analysed in line with the budget
• Flagging unusual transactions and risks to forecast
• Coordinating forecast inputs
• Preparing management reports, including analysis by Growth Solution
• Providing supporting details for reports, explaining key variances
• Forecasting depreciation and software spend
• Supporting month-end processes, such as allocation postings and preparation of performance packs

If you are a fully qualified Finance Analyst looking for a new opportunity to further develop your career, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic team.