Finance Analyst

As a Finance Analyst, your role will be to support commercial decisions working collaboratively alongside other members of the FP&A team and the Senior Management Team.

Client Details

My client are an award-winning business based in Petersfield. Due to continued growth, they are looking for a Finance Analyst to join the FP&A Team.

Description

As a Finance Analyst, your role responsibilities will include:

• Maintain lifecycle profitability models to provide financial evaluation by channel, tier & asset class, updating & calculating key drivers as relevant.
• Production of month end unit profitability pack, highlighting key trends & risks to Finance Director & Executive team.
• Financial evaluation of new pricing & product proposals.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations for key business cases and strategic projects, eg score card implementation & retention strategies, considering potential impacts on customer, volume & profitability.
• Ad hoc technical support for other key project.
• Carry out appropriate user testing of agreed pricing/project changes.
• Carry out post implementation reviews for pricing/project changes, investigating key variances & reporting to the relevant manager to ensure that remedial action is taken.
• Pro-active & collaborative stakeholder management, attending regular sessions with wider business teams, eg Credit risk, Marketing & Asset management - sharing knowledge and best practice to improve the product lifecycle.
• Identify and monitor emerging issues and trends communicating effectively with the affected managers
• Be committed to quality and professional customer service to ensure individual performance and business results are maximised.
• Work as part of a team - supporting and assisting colleagues in the operation of the department and throughout the business.
• Support the strategic planning & budgeting process.
• Seek to drive continuous improvement of processes and procedures.

Profile

To be successful in your application, you should be:

• Experience in the production, analysis and presentation of relevant information & reporting for use at all business levels.
• Ability to clearly explain outputs to all stakeholders in a manner that is easy for them to understand.
• Experience of creating and implementing processes and procedures.
• Advanced Excel skills with experience of data and system analysis including the generation of reports & SQL understanding.
• Excellent organising/planning skills with the ability to coordinate and manage multi-task projects. and organise workloads in a structured and logical way, working to tight deadlines.
• Able to manage stakeholders' needs and expectations and use influencing and negotiation skills, where required.
• Able to seek out and implement innovative ways of enhancing the models used.
• Strong stakeholder engagement/Business partnering experience.
• Ability to 'think outside of the box'.

Job Offer

If you are successful in this application, you should expect:

• Salary between £25k - £30k
• Permanent Opportunity
• Excellent Benefits
• Opportunity to work for award winning business