Senior Finance Analyst

Michael Page; Woking; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study support

Pension

Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance

Complimentary RHS Show tickets

Free Gardens entry

Free parking at Wisley site

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

RHS Wisley Gardens is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to support operational teams with robust financial analysis and insightful recommendations. You will partner with senior finance clients, deliver month-end close inputs, and drive efficiencies across the organisation through cross-functional collaboration.

The role requires ACCA/CIMA part-qualification, advanced Excel, and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• ACCA/CIMA part qualified with strong accounting knowledge.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Advanced Excel and intermediate PowerPoint skills; proficient MS Office.
• Interprets financial reports and communicates implications clearly.
• Builds strong networks across areas of responsibility.
• Proven experience in business partnering.
• Advises on financial processes and reporting requirements, supporting timely delivery.
• Effective communicator with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance business partnering for key functional stakeholders including monthly P&L support.
• Prepare month-end commentary with insights and remedial actions.
• Deliver financial insights to support strategic objectives and budgeting.
• Develop annual budgets and forecasts with stakeholder inputs.
• Ensure data accuracy across systems and promote reporting automation.
• Provide KPI reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Perform variance analysis and financial modelling to guide decisions.
• Challenge unusual P&L movements to align forecast with actuals.
• Support finance processes including capital requests and business cases.
• Build cross-functional partnerships across the area.

Skills

Analytical skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

MS Office

ACCA/CIMA part-qualified

Finance partnering

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Education

ACCA/CIMA part-qualified

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

MS Office

Job description

I am delighted to be exclusively partnering RHS Wisley Gardens recruiting for a Senior Finance Analyst candidate on a permanent basis. For more than 200 years, the RHS has been a power for good, influencing everything from window boxes to landscaped gardens worldwide and creating places and experiences for every visitor to enjoy.

Client Details

We want people who can influence and implement our mission. To connect more people to plants, share the health benefits of gardening, raise awareness of our scientific and horticultural expertise, and share a lifelong gardening adventure with people of all ages and backgrounds. If you're alive with the possibility of growing a career with us through the positive power of gardening, our future is together.

Description

The Senior Finance Analyst plays a key role in supporting the operational teams to deliver their financial targets and budgets. You will provide your business partners with robust analysis and proposed solutions that drive conversations in operational team meetings, identifying efficiencies and constructively challenging existing practices. By reviewing internal and external factors, the post holder will deliver insight and tools to help drive the business forward. You will be support your Senior Finance Business Partner in meetings, by providing them with key financial analysis to allow them to offer advice and financial perspective to support decision-making. Recognising the importance of cross-functional collaboration, you will work to build, maintain, and harness strong relationships. As an advocate of the RHS, you will demonstrate our values and behaviours, take ownership, drive innovation, and help ensure we deliver our charitable objectives.

Responsible for providing finance business partnering for key functional stakeholders including monthly P&L support in line with the RHS month end timetable, alongside preparation of month end commentary, providing insights and suggestions for remedial activities;

Focus of the role is to provide overall financial insights into business drivers in order to deliver and develop the RHS strategic objectives and annual budget;

Support the development of annual budgets and forecasts. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather inputs and validate assumptions.

Ensure accuracy and consistency of financial data across systems and reports, implementing improvements to reporting processes and promoting automation initiatives.

Provide key analytical financial and KPI reporting to senior stakeholders.

Support stakeholders by providing variance analysis and overall financial modelling to drive business decisions;

Challenge unusual P&L movements, forecasts and fluctuations to ensure forecast and actual financial performance is robust;

Support business stakeholders to ensure the correct finance processes are adopted including Capital Request and business cases

Able to use sound business acumen to assess new ideas, both from an operational and financial perspective and then be able to articulate the impacts with clear and meaningful recommendations;

Provide support and detail for key discussion points for Senior Finance Business Partner when meeting with relevant Directors, with a willingness to step up in meetings if required

Act as the finance ambassador to build and maintain partnerships to develop strong networks across the area of responsibility.;

Profile

Senior Finance Analyst should have:

A successful Finance Analyst/Assistant Finance Business Partner should have:

ACCA/CIMA part qualified.

Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Advanced Excel skills and intermediate PowerPoint skills along with proficient MS Office

Interprets financial reports and communicates implications clearly and effectively to non-finance audiences

Builds strong networks and relationships across areas of responsibility.

Proven experience in business partnering roles.

Advises on financial processes and reporting requirements, supporting timely delivery.

• Effective communicator with the ability to present financial information to both finance and non-finance stakeholders

Job Offer

• Salary ranging up to £45,000, dependent on the level of experience.
• Study support
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays - annual allowance. Option to purchase up to 5 days per annum
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance
• Complimentary tickets to RHS Show for friends and family - max ticket allocation may vary
• Free Gardens entry + 2 complimentary friend and family tickets
• Free parking at Wisley site.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment.

As an inclusive recruiter we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences.

If you require any adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, we'll work with you to ensure you can perform at your best