Summary: The Finance Analyst role involves providing accurate business information to senior management and cost owners within the Environmental, Manufacturing, and Engineering sectors. The position requires financial qualifications and experience in financial analysis, with a focus on cost reporting and collaboration with stakeholders. The analyst will be responsible for ensuring costs are categorized correctly, reporting actual costs, and preparing management reports. This contract position offers an opportunity for a qualified finance professional to advance their career in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cost reporting
• Ensuring all costs are correctly categorised in line with Group guidelines
• Co-ordinating corrections as required
• Reporting actual costs to stakeholders with supporting explanations for unusual and large transactions
• Working with cost owners to review and update forecast costs
• Reporting actual costs by project for R&D projects
• Collaborating with R&D owner to forecast project spend
• Consolidating payroll inputs from different business unit entities
• Ensuring costs are correctly analysed in line with the budget
• Flagging unusual transactions and risks to forecast
• Coordinating forecast inputs
• Preparing management reports, including analysis by Growth Solution
• Providing supporting details for reports, explaining key variances
• Forecasting depreciation and software spend
• Supporting month-end processes, such as allocation postings and preparation of performance packs

Key Skills:

• Financial qualification - CIMA, ACA, ACCA
• Experience in financial analysis within a complex global organisation
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills, including Power Query
• SAP/Tagetik experience an advantage
• Effective communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to collaborate on challenges and convey complex financial information

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Shoreham-By-Sea

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other