Analyst jobs in United Kingdom

Role Summary:
The successful candidate will be responsible for exceeding client expectations through superior implementation, delivery and management of IFRS and UK GAAP accounting, operational and reporting solution.
The candidate is required to give advice on the current IFRS and UK GAAP standards to ensure conformance with requirements of each of the client project(s) and client user expectations. Assist sales team during opportunity assessment and proposal phases of the service delivery process, particularly as it relates to deployment approach, timeline and deliverables.
We are seeking a motivated and adaptable individual to join our well established and renowned client.

Responsibilities:

• Support client transformation team by the provision of subject matter expertise in delivering key IFRS and UK GAAP project milestones and objectives.
• Work closely with stakeholders in implementing the project and provide direction as necessary with the overall objective being to ensure that IFRS and UK GAAP reporting is delivered through Finance platform.
• Research, assess, analyse and document financial reporting and operational requirements for IFRS standards, as required by the client project.
• Assist in identifying, developing, testing and implementing IFRS accounting operational and reporting solutions to meet financial and regulatory reporting requirements, map financial reporting processes and modify control procedures, as required.
• Track progress on IFRS issue identification and resolution.
• Prepare and consolidate IFRS related issues and procedural training documentation.
• Provide support in documenting current processes and new IFRS requirements.
• Apply understanding of current reporting processes and develop in depth understanding of IFRS requirements to provide necessary training and support to reporting financial reporting team and other finance segments groups, as required.

Experience:

Essential:

• Proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in your past positions.
• A thorough knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP is important
• Track record of interacting and building relationship with CXO level client contacts
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability in a team environment.
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, create opportunities for others.
• Willingness to take personal risks - as seen through leadership roles - in work environment.
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization.
• Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively.
• Prior work experience of 8-15 years in a similar role

Desirable skills include:

• Organised - You are highly organized and are constantly on the lookout to improve the way you work.
• Collaborative - You seek first to understand and then to be understood. You communicate your actions and intentions clearly, both verbally and in a written format.
• Proactive - You have a proactive attitude towards problems. You pay attention to detail and think about the implications of what you are doing.
• Tech savvy - You are enthusiastic about technology and have a passion for innovation and new ideas. In the past, others may have described you as the encyclopaedia for business software. You love playing around with new tools and have a good sense of how their fit into an overall systems architecture.
• Data driven - You actively seek data to validate your hypotheses and to evaluate the success of your work. You are a confident user of Excel.

Work Based Competencies:

Essential:

• Very good understanding of technology and well versed with the latest design thinking principles
• Good ability to focus on the needs of the business of our clients as a whole, its strategic direction, and in identifying initiatives that will allow a business to meet the goals
• Experience working with developing strategy, business plans, building executive relationships and influencing cross functional stakeholders
• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills and excellent leadership skills
• Extremely high self-driven attitude, detail oriented, proactive and able to prioritize and manage workloads and meet critical project deadlines
• Able to analyze data, look for trends and provide feedback to the team and management
• Owns a tenacious and never say die attitude - able to follow-up incessantly with our partners and customers (internal or external)