Description
New role open for an experienced Finance Reporting & Planning Analyst to work on a 6 month contract in Nottingham for one of hyphen's largest Utility clients.
Essential Key skills/experience
-Part or fully qualified accountant
-SME in Excel
-Must have the ability to build models for forecasting
-Financial planning
-Financial reporting
-Balance Sheet reconciliations
-Month end reporting
-Month/year end journals
-Stakeholder engagement
-Financial controls
-Forecasting, budgeting and cost
Role Overview
* To contribute to the maintenance and improvement of financial controls, systems and processes which ensure the integrity of financial records and minimise risk, including supporting projects to improve related systems and controls.
* Responsible for commercial finance activities driving analysis, forecasts and decision making support for management attention.
* Drive month, and year end process to ensure accounts are delivered by deadlines, specific responsibility for balance Sheet reconciliations.
Main Responsibilities:
* Expectation of working autonomously using own initiative; covering Controllable Costs, Capital Expenditure, Non-Operating Costs, FTE including value impacts of decisions:
* Business Support: help Business B-2/B-3's understand Financial positions & opportunities, scenario modelling.
* Arrange, attend and contribute to reviews with Business Stakeholders. Help Business achieve budget and understand outturn view both at Cost Centre & Total Area level. Drive operational challenge to add value at all opportunities.
* Month End: Reporting of results to Business and internal Finance customers. Completing initial messaging for review. Lead reporting delivery on behalf of the local finance team.
* Month/Year End Journals: prepare own journals including support and narrative for Accounting Centre to hit tight turn-around.
* Interpret financial results and strategies, ensuring alignment with business area targets. Focus and energy to be applied to cost control, and revenue enhancing opportunities.
* Decision support working with commercial teams, senior stakeholders, and the smart program to drive best value for the business to achieve its financial and non-financial targets.
* Financial Planning/MTP: deliver timetables for delivery of forecasts/budgets, ensuring stakeholders have clarity of both deliverables and deadlines. Complete planning in ICE with validation checks to prove FC submissions agree to expected numbers.
* Support Business to ensure correct FTE captured at month end and in forecasts so that operations are carefully managed.
* Work on cost savings initiatives, both at own initiative and to support Business
* Needs to be an expert in Excel
To apply please forward your CV
Hy-phen Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.