Finance Analyst
- Recruiter
- Page Personnel
- Location
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
- Salary
- £37500 - £42500 per annum
- Posted
- 17 Aug 2022
- Closes
- 24 Aug 2022
- Ref
- JN -082022-5724193
- Contact
- Joe West
- Job role
- Financial analyst
- Sector
- Retail and FMCG
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Part qualified
This Exciting and fast growth FMCG Group have a commercially focused Finance Analyst role in search of a strong part qualified or finalist stage professional who is looking for progression and mentoring to reach qualifications and an Financial Controller position.
Client Details
This FMCG Group have an enviable reputation for providing excellent products and are a great brand name who pride themselves on the quality of their work. Based in Milton Keynes they have parking on site and this Financial Analyst role will act as an effective business partner to Operations and Commercial functions, assisting Senior leadership teams with analytical review, analysis, commentary and be part of key new business and improvement plan, focus on business process improvement.
Description
Commercial Finance Analyst Key Duties and Accountability's
- Providing insightful analysis on products and contracts with commentary to aid strategic decision making
- Timely and accurate month end close along with relevant departmental commentaries
- Monthly material variance analysis with root cause analysis to drive corrective actions by operations
- Be an effective business partner, attend meetings, understand new business wins & risks and deliver on related support
- Prepare and distribute weekly operational reporting and related variance analysis including payroll costs
- promotions and spend forecasting and month end support
- Drive and support continuous improvement and annual standard costing exercise
- Be an effective bridge between commercial and operations finance and wider teams
- Support commercial finance analyst for key commercial projects
- Support Financial controller with ad-hoc projects
Profile
Commercial Finance Analyst experience, characteristics and traits desired;
- Finalist/ Part qualified/ Studier of appropriate professional accounting body (CIMA/ACCA)
- Similar industry experience to FMCG, Retail, Logistics or Manufacturing
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering financial information with good attention to detail
- Standard costing principals and tender processes knowledge is a bonus
- Able to investigate key deviations to set financial targets and related prognosis
- Able to develop excel based dash boards and related models for wider business
- IT proficient with intermediate/advanced Excel skills
- 3 years minimum finance experience
- Business partner role experience preferable
- Experience of international organisations
Job Offer
Fast tracked study support scheme with swift progression, pension scheme, bonus scheme, annual above inflation pay reviews, flexible benefits, company discounts plus plenty more