Finance Analyst

Hays PLC; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Financial Analyst to join their dynamic team in the outskirts of Bath. This role offers the chance to influence key financial decisions through insightful reporting and robust financial modelling. You'll collaborate closely with the Head of Financial Planning and Senior Financial Analyst to ensure accurate financial data supports strategic decision-making. With a generous benefits package, including enhanced leave and a pension scheme, this opportunity is perfect for a newly qualified accountant looking to make a significant impact in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Enhanced paid leave

Hybrid working

Enhanced maternity pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts and financial benefits

Transport schemes

Qualifications

• Newly qualified accountant with experience in financial modelling and report creation.
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting financial reports and budgetary information.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financial models for the organization's five-year plan.
• Provide analysis and commentary on year-on-year variances in financial data.

Skills

Financial Modelling

Advanced Excel Skills

Report Creation

Data Analysis

Education

CIMA

ACCA

ACA

Tools

Business Intelligence Tools

Job description

Finance Analyst job, outskirts of Bath with excellent benefits

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 prepare/analyse data for internal segmental reporting.
• 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

• Generous pension scheme
• 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
• Transport schemes

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. INDHAF