Senior Finance Analyst Consumer Margin

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The Senior Finance Analyst is a key role in the FP&A team that is part of the consumer margin vertical. You will work to support your line manager help develop and support other members of your team as well as collaborate with key stakeholders in the wider business.

Your core responsibilities include leading on financial analysis month end variance analysis and commentary consolidation of results feeding into the Finance manager and head of FP&A. You will use your strong understanding of the business to drive analysis and insight and support in the delivery of the financial objectives of the business.

This role will utilise your analytical skills business partnering and presentational skills whilst leading on specific topics during budget and quarterly re-forecasts. Your contributions will help to ensure accurate reporting and understanding of business performance.

The role has to be able to prioritise and manage multiple demands from various stakeholders and requires strong financial analysis skills to contribute to a dynamic high-impacting team.

What youll do

• Financial Reporting
  • Ensure that internal and external reporting deadlines (month end forecasts and other regular reporting requirements) are met with minimal errors
  • Lead on improving processes and efficiencies of outputs using the latest tools
  • Lead on the co-ordination of relevant submissions and inputs into financial systems

• Financial Analysis
  • Validate the monthly results and produce variance analysis to budgets / forecasts pulling out key drivers
  • Report and distribute key trends to senior leaders identifying risks & opportunities
  • Be responsible for the tracking and co-ordination of performance and key initiatives across consumer margin

• Forecasting and budgeting
  • Support your designated margin business partner with the completion of forecasts and budgets and act as a key analyst of performance identifying ways to maximise opportunities and minimise risk
  • Coordinate and track the submissions from the various teams inputting into FP&A and hold them accountable to delivery on time
  • Assist with the production of review decks for the consumer margin area and specific ownership of CC branded.
  • Holistically identify risks and opportunities and efficiencies across consumer margin and work with business to understand and mitigate
• Business partnering
  • Excellent stakeholder management including senior leaders within finance and the business ability to manage expectations and solve issues whilst providing solutions and recommendations
  • Ability to challenge and influence senior leaders
  • Strong integration and understanding of the business area that you support as well as wider finance
  • Ability to relay finance information to non finance leaders in a clear concise and relatable way
  • Pull out key trends to affect change and improve business performance
• Adhoc Analysis
  • Conduct ad-hoc analysis for your area exploring data and trends to provide insights to the business and other relevant areas as needed.

Qualifications :

Who you are

• Fully Qualified accountant (ACA ACCA or CIMA). 1
  -2 years PQE
• Strong MS Excel skills (including filters pivot tables lookups and charts)
• Ability to identify work requirements independently seeking guidance part of the time
• Able to prioritise and deliver high quality/accurate/timely reporting
• Strong accounting and reporting skills with great attention to detail
• Continuo…