Description
Job title: Senior Finance Analyst
Our financial services client is urgently seeking an experienced Senior Finance Analyst to work on a high profile project.
Key skills accountabilities:
- Working across multiple businesses and functions to produce joined-up and consistent output.
- Analyse performance of project across three business areas and produce insightful commentary
- Evaluate financial impact of options and decisions
- Own forecast process
- Own rule sets & logic for refund calculators
- Liaise & integrate with multiple areas across Symphony including Legal & Regulatory Compliance, Operations, Project Management, Analytics & Information, local Finance business teams
- Process expertise
- Primary point of contact for business
- Improve the quality of financial analytics to senior stakeholder groups, working closely with the Analytics & Information team to source accurate & timely MI
- Acknowledge important differences between the three business areas but ensure this does not create a barrier to consistent messaging at project level
- Deliver proactive insight on performance at business, cohort and customer levels
- Work with the Reporting Manager to develop & build on comprehensive reporting packs
- Ensure financial evaluation is a key tool in decision making processes
- Provide impact assessments on options/decisions made by the project
- Become an influential player across workstreams & at project level
- Deputise for line management as required
- Build & own a robust process for forecasting provisions for each business and deliver results to key stakeholders
- Create efficient provision models which allow stress testing and multiple scenario outputs
- Liaise with auditors (internal & external) via Control & Governance colleagues on provision assessment work
- Work closely with the other teams within Symphony Finance to create a seamless team - very strong supplier and customer relationships
- Understand the end-to-end operational processes and links to strategy & policy
Technical Skills/Competencies:
- Intellectual competencies - analytical, strategic viewpoint but can also master detail when required, commercial perspective and acumen
- Technical competencies - good basic technical knowledge, and ability to leverage knowledge of specialists, but be willing and able to challenge them credibly on key assumptions
- Personal competencies - high degree of organisation, adaptable and flexible, comfortable with ambiguity, credible to key stakeholders, able to adopt a process and process improvement approach when required
- Interpersonal - strong ability to influence across teams and across different functional/product areas; able to drive change and to manage through others
- Negotiation skills - in order to be able to land analysis which may run contrary to traditional business thinking or existing business trajectory towards a given goal
Essential experience:
- Experience of finance in large, financial services organisation.
- Experience, qualifications and other requirements specific to the role
Essential - Qualified Accountant
- Preferred - Retail banking or credit card experience
- Key Issues over the next 12-24 months
- Focusing always on impact (the so what' and landing the change')
- Avoiding straight partnering/reporting model - ability to understand the business well, but give credible, independent challenge that leads to action
- Additional details of exceptional aspects of the demands of the role
Please note that, due to the high level of applications we receive, we are not able to provide individual responses. If you have not heard from us within 5 working days, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. Services advertised by Campion Willcocks & Associates Ltd are those of an agency and/or employment business.