Financial Analyst

Vero Recruitment; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Vero Recruitment has identified a Senior Analyst - Operations Finance for a high-profile client in Aberdeenshire. The role provides analysis and challenge across a major cost base, collaborating with Finance, Operations and broader business units to drive performance.

The successful candidate will bring strong analytical skills, experience in costing, budgeting and forecasting, and advanced Excel, Power Query and Power BI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and enjoy working closely with operational and non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience of standard costing, inventory accounting, budgeting, forecasting and operational business partnering would all be highly relevant.
• Strong Excel skills are essential; Power Query and Power BI experience would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial analysis, insight and challenge across a significant operational cost base.
• Work with stakeholders across Finance, Operations and the business to understand performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support standard costing across UK and international operations.
• Provide analysis around COGS, manufacturing costs and operational performance.
• Assist budgeting and forecasting with FP&A and operations teams to develop robust assumptions.
• Monitor working capital, including stock controls and inventory adjustments.
• Review and challenge capital expenditure across operational divisions.
• Produce ad hoc analyses to support decision-making.
• Collaborate with FP&A and IT to improve financial systems, processes and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting and streamline data gathering.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Commercial acumen

Process improvement

Tools

Excel

Power Query

Power BI

Job description

Vero Recruitment has been exclusively appointed to recruit a Senior Analyst - Operations Finance for a high-profile international consumer business based in Aberdeenshire.

About our client

Our client is an established and highly recognisable business with operations across the UK and internationally.

Following a period of significant change, the business has recently entered an exciting new chapter, with a renewed focus on sustainable growth, operational performance and greater financial discipline.

Finance will play an important role in supporting this next stage of development, creating an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to join the business at an interesting point in its journey.

The role

Reporting to the Head of Operations Finance, the Operations Finance Senior Analyst will provide financial analysis, insight and challenge across a significant operational cost base.

This will be a highly analytical and commercially focused role, working closely with stakeholders across Finance, Operations and the wider business to understand performance, identify opportunities for improvement and support better decision-making.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing timely and meaningful financial analysis across operational areas
• Working closely with operational stakeholders to understand performance, identify trends and challenge areas of underperformance
• Supporting the development and maintenance of standard costing across UK and international operations
• Providing analysis around COGS, manufacturing costs and operational performance
• Supporting budgeting and forecasting, working with FP&A and operational teams to develop robust assumptions
• Monitoring working capital, including stock controls and inventory adjustments
• Reviewing and challenging capital expenditure across operational divisions
• Producing ad hoc analysis to support operational and commercial decision-making
• Working with FP&A and IT to improve financial systems, processes and reporting
• Identifying opportunities to automate reporting and reduce time spent gathering and manipulating data

This is an excellent opportunity to join a complex, fast-paced business where Finance is expected to provide genuine insight and challenge rather than simply report the numbers.

Who are we looking for

We are looking to speak with accountants who have strong analytical skills and enjoy working closely with operational and non-finance stakeholders.

You should be comfortable analysing complex financial information and translating this into meaningful insight for non-finance stakeholders. Experience of standard costing, inventory accounting, budgeting, forecasting and operational business partnering would all be highly relevant.

Strong Excel skills are essential, while experience using Power Query and Power BI would be advantageous.

What's on offer

This is a first-class opportunity to join a well-known international business at an important stage in its development. The role offers significant exposure across Finance and Operations, with the opportunity to work within a complex international environment and play a meaningful part in improving financial and operational performance.

For an ambitious finance professional, there will also be excellent scope for continued career development as the business moves through its next phase of growth. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements available.