Description
Job Title: FP&A Financial Analyst
Location: Windsor
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £350 - £400
Start: ASAP
Overview
Our Client, a leading UK Organisation is looking for an experienced FP&A Financial Analyst, to focus on providing accurate and timely financial forecasts and monthly financial analysis relating to CCGTs (gas-fired power stations). The role will include providing insightful analysis and commentary to support management decision-making
The Role
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Deliver key financial forecasting, along with insightful performance reporting and analysis
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Produce standard FP&A deliverables to the agreed format, timeline and quality
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Apply our clients standards of financial control to FP&A processes to ensure key financial processes are structured to deliver accuracy, financial integrity and transparency, in order to meet finance and business stakeholder requirements
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Proactively get to know the UK Power Market and CCGTs, developing a detailed understanding of the key inputs and enabling a credible platform to provide high quality insight and challenge
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Produce timely and accurate monthly reporting and commentary, using knowledge of CCGTs to provide insightful reporting and supporting analysis to ensure that EM&T understands variances to plan and that any future risk/opportunity is understood and quantified
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Responsible for engagement with relevant stakeholders across finance and EM&T more widely
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Work collaboratively with Finance Partners, Financial Control, FP&A and Product Control teams to align on key variances, core performance metrics and planning assumptions
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Embed continuous improvement through design and delivery of changes to forecasting/reporting methodologies, in order to drive greater understanding, efficiency and standardisation
The Person
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Capable of managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and working effectively to meet tight deadlines
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Motivated by continuous improvement and high quality output, with evidence of a previous record of process improvement
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Good communicator with strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex financial analysis into commercial insight
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Expertise in developing and maintaining large models, and analysing data
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Develops a detailed understanding of the business in order to translate operational drivers into accurate accounts and reports
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Ability to pro-actively develop positive and effective working relationships, engaging key senior stakeholders as necessary to achieve desired outcomes
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Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Able to step away from the detail to see the bigger picture
Education
Level of education required to carry out the role competently and effectively
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Educated to degree level
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Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- IT literate - excellent Excel skills are essential; experience with SAP/BPC desirable
Work experience
Depth/breadth of experience required to carry out the role competently and effectively
- Previous commercial and analytical finance experience
- Experience of FP&A in a large organisation
- Prior record of building economic and financial models; creating robust forecasting and budgeting as well as underpinning materials prepared with sound financial accounting and planning
- Knowledge of UK power market and CCGTs desirable
- Utilities/Power markets experience
Please submit a CV no more than four pages long if the above matches your skill set, together with current availability. As we anticipate a high volume of responses, if you haven't heard back from us in five working days please assume there were more suitable candidates and your application was unsuccessful.
Adams + Oliver is acting as an Employment Agency or Business for the purposes of this vacancy