Finance Analyst

Summary: The Finance Analyst role involves supporting a North West based business within a global group, focusing on financial regulatory, reporting, and accounting duties. The position requires comprehensive financial analysis, forecasting, and collaboration with various departments to enhance processes and contribute to the company's growth strategy. The ideal candidate will possess relevant qualifications and experience in financial analysis, with a strong emphasis on data interpretation and reporting. This role presents an exciting opportunity to play a crucial part in the company's recent acquisition and future development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse and interpret historical and current financial data to understand the Company’s financial status.
• Perform trend analysis from historical performance, forecast future performance, and provide actionable insights for operational efficiency.
• Prepare requests for both financial and non-financial information and adhere to group requirements for consolidation.
• Analyse existing processes to identify gaps and collaborate with relevant departments to implement and improve processes and enable data capture.
• Prepare reports and financial information to ensure compliance with internal audit requirements.
• Create and implement performance reporting across both manufacturing and assembly sites and liaise with department leaders suggesting improvements.
• Establish policies and procedures for cost analysis and recommend actions to senior management and departmental leaders.
• Develop automated accounting programs to help increase productivity and business efficiency.
• Develop financial models to support planning, budgeting, and forecasting, through aggregating and interpreting large amounts of complex data.

Key Skills:

• Qualified ACCA, ACA or CIMA.
• Proven experience in financial analysis and working with large datasets.
• Proficiency in SAP Business One is highly desirable.
• Excellent reporting, presenting, and communication skills.
• Understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Strategic thinking and organisational skills.
• Proven analytical and financial modelling skills.
• Experience conducting reviews and evaluations to produce cause-and-effect reports is beneficial.
• Ability to produce accurate reports to specific deadlines.

Salary (Rate): 60000

City: Blackburn

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Finance