Senior Financial Analyst - 9 month FTC

A quick look at the role

The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for accounting and management reporting for operational sites across the south of England and our sub-contracted and bespoke Reactive Services offering. You will be an effective member of the financial and divisional management teams, producing robust, reliable, accurate financial information for their respective division.

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Your core responsibilities

• Primary contact for the Operational team for all financial matters.
• Oversee the development of robust financial plans including annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Ensure the operational teams are provided with an appropriate suite of reports, metrics and performance indicators and distribute information on a timely basis.
• Overall responsibility for delivery of monthly regional reporting including completion of management accounts within period end timelines and associated variance analysis, compiling reports for monthly review.
• Weekly flash reporting ownership and understanding to support regional general managers and general manager
• Undertake operational benchmarking and variance analyses to understand financial performance and to identify areas of improvement. Conduct regular reviews with Operations to agree performance improvement plans. Develop the commercial awareness of the regional teams.
• Ensure the Group's financial control policies are implemented and maintained at all times by the regions, including but not limited to regular reviews of site / physical controls, compliance with delegated authorities, balance sheet reviews, interfacing with internal audit to propose reviews of areas of perceived weakness or risk and ensuring agreed actions are implemented.
• Proactively seeking and recommending profit improvement suggestions for the division in conjunction with the operational team.
• Support business leaders in the development of investment appraisals through providing challenge, ensuring appropriate benchmarking has been conducted, realistic assumptions have been made, risks are understood and have where possible been mitigated.
• Visit operational sites providing financial reviews and insight
• A chance to join a forward-thinking, industry leader that openly welcomes self-driven individuals who are unafraid to question convention

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Our essential requirements

• Fully or part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Management accounting experience gained in the service, logistics or waste industries an advantage
• Strong system skills including advanced Excel, Power BI and preferably Microsoft Dynamics
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, communication and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable commuting to operational sites as required

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