Senior Financial Analyst

Yu Energy; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing energy company in Nottingham seeks a Finance Analyst to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will support financial reporting, collaborate with senior management, and contribute to the company's success story. Ideal for a motivated accountant looking to progress in their finance career.

Benefits

24 days annual leave + bank holidays

Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days

Day off on your birthday

Employee Assistance Programme

Annual salary review

Learning and development opportunities

Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies

Yü made a difference Awards

Long service recognition

Company sick pay

Qualifications

• Qualified or part qualified accountant with appetite to complete qualification.
• Experience in preparing monthly management accounts.
• Energy industry experience desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the production of financial and management reporting for the Retail Business Unit.
• Producing monthly Gross Margin and EBITDA outputs.
• Analysis of revenue and variance commentary.

Skills

MS Excel

Financial Analysis

Budgeting

Variance Analysis

Communication

Education

Qualified Accountant

Part Qualified Accountant

Job description

Department: YUR - 2135 - Retail Finance

Location: Nottingham

Compensation: £40,000 - £50,000 / year

Description

Reports to: Senior Retail Finance Manager
Location: Nottingham / Hybrid
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week

We’re looking for a talented and ambitious person to join our rapidly growing business.
Working in the Finance team, the successful candidate will help produce insightful
financial information in relation to the Retail Business Unit. The candidate will work on
the production of management accounts, budgets, forecasts, modelling and variance
analysis for BU Retail, ensuring accounting tasks are completed quickly, accurately and
to a high standard.
The role will involve you working closely with various departments in the business,
having regular meetings with senior management and exposure to Board level staff
Passionate and motivated people are the power behind our growth so we’re looking to
expand our team and you could be part of our success story.

What We Need from Yü

Here’s a taste of what you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the production of the Retail Business Unit financial and management
• reporting.
• Producing monthly Gross Margin and EBITDA outputs, including monthly journal
• preparations and completion of key balance sheet reconciliations.
• Preparation of GM analysis and MI packs including relevant and insightful
• variance analysis.
• Business Partnering responsibility for key ‘Lifecycle’ P&L line.
• Help to drive improvement and innovation of all Financial processes, including
• identification of automation opportunities.
• Draw relationships between business actions e.g. hedging or pricing and
• financial performance, including reconciliation between expectations and actual
• results.
• Analysis of revenue and cost of sales variances, providing commentary to the
• Group FD and beyond.
• Collaborate within the organisation and forge strong relationships with key
• stakeholders across the different functions.
• Preparation of weekly and monthly KPI analysis for inclusion in Board packs.
• Work at pace and have the ability to prioritise multiple deadlines.
• Perform ad-hoc tasks and analysis to meet the needs of the business
  
  

About Yü

If you have what it takes you could be just what we’re looking for…

• Qualified – you will be a recently qualified or part qualified accountant with
• appetite to complete your qualification
• Knowledgeable – you are technically strong with experience of supporting the
• preparation of monthly management accounts to strict deadlines
• An expert - energy industry experience is desirable but not essential.
• Skilled – excellent MS excel skills are required
• Ambitious – you don’t just want another job, you want a career
• Team player – you’re happy to help a fellow colleague
• Motivated – you have a can-do attitude and love to learn
• Goal orientated – you proactively love hitting, exceeding and driving your own
• targets
• Accuracy – High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Communication – confidently and accurately communicate through verbal and
• written forms
• Friendly – you’re always polite and speak to people with respect
  
  

Yü Come First

We have a wide range of benefits for our employees including:

• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days
• Day off on your birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual salary review
• Learning and development opportunities
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies
• Yü made a difference Awards
• 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.
• Appointment allowance
• Long service recognition
• Refer a friend payment
• Company sick pay (subject to length of service)
• New modern facilities
• Death in service and critical illness cover
• Plus, many more

This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for
Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have an indefinite right to work in the UK

If you need any reasonable adjustments to help you apply for a role, please let us know and we will see what we can do

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