Finance Analyst
Posted 4 days ago by Randstad Perm Professionals
£43 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Manchester, Lancashire
Summary: The Finance Analyst role is with a leading digital travel company, focusing on financial planning and analysis. Based in Manchester, this position offers a hybrid working arrangement and is initially set for a duration of three months. The role involves data analysis, reporting, and supporting business decision-making processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creating variance analysis comparing performance of KPIs with agreed targets and budgets
- Supporting business decision making through exploring business questions using data analysis and visualisation
- Providing information and insight into past, current and potential future trading activities
- Tracking performance on rebates analysis, producing reconciliations, and reporting to finance
- Building and maintaining regular reporting
- Developing efficient, automated reporting as requested by the business
- Maintaining key reports, metrics, and workflows
- Supporting the business planning processes by forecasting relevant KPI performance
- Providing insights and reporting on commercially focused projects
Key Skills:
- 1-2 years of data processing experience (SQL, Hadoop, Excel etc.)
- 2 years experience within a financial analyst role for a large organisation
- Commercial experience using data visualisation skills (Power BI, Tableau, Excel etc.)
- Ability to effectively develop strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business
Salary (Rate): £43 per hour
City: Manchester
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
Detailed Description From Employer:
We are partnering with a market leading digital travel company in their search for a Finance Analyst within their Financial Planning & Analysis team. This role is based in Manchester, and will run for 3 months initially, offering hybrid working (1 day per week in the office) and a day rate of up to 358 per day via umbrella (or PAYE equivalent) for the right candidate. As the Finance Analyst, you will be responsible for:
- Creating variance analysis comparing performance of KPIs with agreed targets and budgets
- Support business decision making through exploring business questions using data analysis and visualisation
- Support the business by providing information and insight into past, current and potential future trading activities, highlighting opportunities and risks to improve business performance
- Support on rebates analysis - tracking performance, producing reconciliations, reporting to finance, producing scenario analysis to assist with profitability decisions
- Build & maintain regular reporting
- Develop efficient, automated reporting as requested by the business on an ad hoc basis
- Maintain key reports, metrics and workflows running within their scope
- Support the business planning processes by forecasting the relevant KPI performance
- Support on commercially focused projects, providing relevant insights, reporting and financial impact information
- 1-2 years of data processing experience (SQL, Hadoop, Excel etc.)
- 2 years experience within a financial analyst role for a large organisation
- Commercial experience using data visualisation skills (Power BI, Tableau, Excel etc.)
- Ability to effectively develop strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business