Description
I am looking to hire a Finance Analyst for one of my Public Sector Client. Please read the below job Specification.
Principal accountabilities:
- Assist in the production of the Corporate and Functional business reporting.
- Management accounting activities which includes personnel costs, agency and contract staff, metering expenses, consultant fees and general expenses. Main accountabilities are Budgeting and planning, month end close and financial reporting variance analysis. Running monthly review meetings with the business managers of Bad Debt charges and Headcount. A focus on opportunities and threats. Ensuring we have a clear understanding of headcount reporting and salary costs and customer meter portfolio and Industry data collector and aggregator charges.
- Support the business with relevant analyses, which may vary by functional stakeholder.
- Provide input and suggestions to the Finance Business Partner Manager to define proactive financial analytics, recommendations and support. Build in easy-to-consume narratives and graphics around financials to aid understanding of complex concepts.
- The business will require specific support with activity based costing to assist in making decisions on the optimal organisation design and service levels to improve both customer experience and drive down costs in the business.
- The role will support the development and tracking of productivity savings for efficiency programmes including IT projects. Working with the Finance Business partners to the Business Change & IT function and holding the operational teams to account.
- The role will support decisions on headcount working alongside the operational managers, HR and the resource planning functions.
- The role will support the action planning for debt improvements. Working alongside the working capital analyst, the billing collection teams and the central finance functions. Seeking to share and adopt best practice techniques across other segments of the business.
- Reviewing on a monthly basis the Operational Risk and Provisions tracker for Customer refunds to ensure correct financial accounting principles are applied and the Sales & Marketing Finance teams are informed.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the link between I&Cs non-financial KPI metrics and Net Debt working capital. Using this to assist in best for business decision making. KPI examples include: Complaints, Inbound/Outbound calls, Long Term No Reads, Back Office To-Dos, Compliance issues, speed of billing etc.
- Assist the Finance Roadmap improvement teams with their projects, which may include Cost to serve modelling, headcount reporting, unbilled debt reconciliations, and others.
- Promotes a self-service attitude to the business by advocating the use of technology and tools as appropriate.