Financial Analyst - Projects

Vitae Financial Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance recruitment firm in the UK is seeking a Financial Analyst to join their finance team in Hertfordshire. This role offers flexible hybrid working and a competitive salary of circa £55,000 - £60,000, along with generous benefits. The ideal candidate is a finalist or recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with strong financial analysis and communication skills. The position involves working closely with project managers and financial control on various projects within a multinational company.

Benefits

Excellent package

Flexible working

Generous employment benefits

Qualifications

• Ability to build strong relationships within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Self-starter with excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Strong grounding in accounting and financial analysis.

Responsibilities

• Help deliver and control KPI's for key projects.
• Report actual and forecast achievement against financial targets.
• Support preparation of business plans and annual budgets.
• Manage financial aspects of long-term contracts.

Skills

Financial analysis

Excellent communication

Business partnering

Analytical skills

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)

Job description

Financial Analyst - Projects

Hertfordshire (Flexible Hybrid Working)

Circa £55,000 - £60,000 + Excellent Package

This is a fantastic opportunity for a finalist or recently qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) to join this employer of choice who truly put their employee's welfare at the heart of everything they do by providing market leading flexibility, genuine work-life balance and a raft of generous employment benefits and rewards.

This global business is a market leader in its field and prides itself in providing fulfilling and rewarding career opportunities within a high performing, credible and respected finance function.

The role will join a dynamic and experienced finance team tasked with providing high quality and professional financial control working in close partnership with the wider business as a genuine business partner. You will apply financial control to an array of specific projects, taking responsibility for all financial aspects. As an integral part of the Project Finance Team you will work closely with Project Managers providing timely and accurate financial information whilst acting as a key business partner. This role will allow you to demonstrate your ability to proactively and independently manage all aspects of financial management and allow you to gain and build on your experience of working in a world leading multi-national company.

Responsibilities

• Help deliver and control KPI's for key projects.
• Report actual and forecast achievement against its financial targets, including risks and opportunities.
• Support and management to the preparation of multi-year business plan and annual budget for key contracts.
• Ensure that relevant project staff are clear of their financial objectives.
• Financial management of long-term contracts including: bi-annual Estimate at Completion preparation, revenue & margin trading, intercompany trading, cash and FX management, customer reporting/interfacing.

This is a great opportunity to get exposure to a large multi-national business and the unique experiences it brings. These include working with different national cultures, involvement in strategic decision making and diverse stakeholder management. You will be encouraged to learn and lead on key financial aspects of international business, such as management of Inter Company Trading, Forex management, reporting under IFRS and much more.

Exciting opportunity to add value in a challenging and constantly evolving area of the business. Longer term there is the chance to move around the wider finance function into a variety of roles including treasury, accounting, cost base and new business winning.

Qualifications

We are seeking a high calibre finalist or recently Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with the ability to build strong and productive working relationships within multi discipline and multi-national project and Finance teams, whilst maintaining independence and integrity.

You must be a self‑starter with excellent communication and business partnering skills coupled with excellent analytical skills. With a strong grounding in accounting, you will also be adept with financial analysis and interrogating data to bring the numbers to life and guide key commercial decisions across multiple projects.

A genuinely varied role mixing financial control, business planning / FP&A, business partnering, investment analysis, cost control, involvement in transformation projects.

Exciting opportunity to add value in a challenging and constantly evolving area of the business as part of an inclusive and supportive finance team with excellent learning and development opportunities. Great long‑term opportunity to move around the wider finance team into a variety of roles.