Finance Analyst

Hays Accounts and Finance; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Financial Analyst to join their dynamic team. This role offers the chance to influence key financial decisions and improve reporting accuracy through financial modelling and insightful reporting. You'll work closely with senior analysts and system accountants to streamline processes and provide crucial data for strategic decision-making. With a focus on sustainability and efficiency, this position is ideal for a newly qualified accountant eager to make a significant impact in a large organization. Join this forward-thinking company and advance your career in finance.

Benefits

Enhanced paid leave - 41 - 46 days

Hybrid working

Enhanced maternity pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Wide range of discounts and financial benefits

Qualifications

• Newly qualified accountant with experience in financial modelling and report creation.
• Recent experience in creating, analysing, and interpreting financial reports.

Responsibilities

• Undertake monthly monitoring and reconciliation against budget.
• Develop and maintain models for reporting pay expenditure.

Skills

Financial Modelling

Advanced Excel Skills

Financial Reporting

Budget Analysis

Education

CIMA

ACCA

ACA

Tools

Business Intelligence Tools

Job description

Your new company
We're looking for a Financial Analyst to help shape financial planning and reporting. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic team where your insights will directly influence key decisions. In this role, you'll support the Head of Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis, working alongside the Senior Financial Analyst to develop and maintain core financial data sets. Your work will play a crucial part in ensuring the organisations sustainability.

Your new role
You'll play a key role in financial modelling, including the forecasting model for the organisations five-year plan, and create insightful financial reports using business intelligence tools. Working closely with system accountants, you'll help improve reporting accuracy and streamline financial processes to drive efficiency. Duties will include:

• To undertake monthly monitoring and reconciliation to enable tracking against budget and highlight variances in a timely manner to support forecast adjustments.
• To develop and maintain a model to support the reporting of pay expenditure compared to budgeted and highlight and understand variances for reporting.
• To provide and analyse data for use in the annual returns. Identify, analyse and provide commentary on year-on-year variances.
• To create targeted system reports which offer key insights into areas of expenditure both at departmental or category level as requested/required. This will assist with strategic and operational organisational decision-making.
• To proactively work with the systems accountants to ensure any reporting developed is accurate and robust and update existing reports as reporting requirements change or as system changes dictates.

What you'll need to succeed
We are ideally looking for a newly qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with advanced Excel skills, and strong experience in financial modelling and report creation. The successful candidate will have recent experience in a similar or complementary role, with experience of creating, analysing and interpreting financial reports and budgetary information, and producing insights. Experience in a large and complex organisation, would be an advantage.

What you'll get in return

• Enhanced paid leave - 41 - 46 days depending on the role.
• Hybrid working (minimum of 2 days office based)
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Wide range of discounts and financial benefits , accessed through easy-to-use app

What you need to do now
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