BDO Wave Finance Analyst

As a Finance Analyst within the national Business Services & Outsourcing (BSO) team you will work closely with the BSO Finance Manager and Finance Partner together with the BDO UK central finance team in order to support the commercial development of the BSO business.

This will include assisting and supporting the regional and service line heads in managing the financial performance of the work streams and individual streams on strategic issues and on a day-to‑day basis as well as providing relevant support, advice and guidance to the overall team within the business unit on financial matters.

In this busy and rewarding role you’ll also:

• Regularly liaising with local teams and the central Finance function, overseeing the month end and year end processes.
• Working with the finance manager to produce the annual budget for the stream and individual regions and service lines: liaising with stream finance partner, regional and service line heads, and the Advisory and central Finance team as appropriate and overseeing the input of the data into the Firm’s budget model
• Ensuring bills, recoveries and cash collections are managed effectively and efficiently; challenging performance in these areas where required and agreeing appropriate action to take when issues arise
• Supporting the 4R process to provide critical evaluation and drive consistency
• Working with the finance manager and finance partner to develop, document and monitor financial controls throughout BSO
• Monthly financial analysis and reporting to the finance manager and finance partner to enable informed planning and decision making. Including budget, rolling forecast, key performance indicators and analysis of variances
• Trend analysis with timely identification of causes of risks/ problems with prompt suggestion for relevant actions, particularly including revenue, recoverability, staff utilisation, work in progress, debt
• Supporting the development and visibility of business information through the use of portals and PowerBI
• Supporting the finance manager and finance partner in identifying and developing strategy for the group and individual sub streams; providing support in driving through these strategic decisions, showing initiative and problem solving

• Has an interest in innovation including a willingness to learn new approaches or software (such as Power
  
  BI)
• Seeks greater responsibility and rises to the challenge
• Is robust under pressure and calmly faces challenging situations
• Is sought out by colleagues as a valuable source of advice and support
• Makes suggestions and offers potential solutions to problems in a timely manner
• Displays energy and enthusiasm and is focused on achieving results

• ACA Qualified or equivalent
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel including strong knowledge of formulae and the ability to visually represent data. Knowledge of Power
  
  BI also advantageous/preferred but not essential.