Finance Analyst - Sales to Cash

Key accountabilities of the role

• Own and deliver key financial control and reconciliation activities, ensuring transactions are processed accurately, completely and in accordance with agreed policies and procedures.
• Prepare, review and maintain accounting journals, accruals, prepayments and other financial adjustments, ensuring all supporting documentation is retained and available for review.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations in line with monthly reporting timetables, investigating and resolving aged or unreconciled items and providing clear commentary where required.
• Analyse financial data and investigate variances, identifying root causes and working with relevant stakeholders to implement corrective actions.
• Produce commentary for variances and update other reports as required.
• Support the delivery of month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities, ensuring deadlines are met and any risks or issues are escalated promptly.
• Maintain strong financial controls and governance, ensuring processes are compliant with internal policies, audit requirements and accounting standards.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders to support issue resolution, process improvements and the delivery of business objectives.
• Retain clear and organised audit trails for all financial activities, including reconciliations, journals, approvals, supporting evidence and key decisions.
• Maintain up-to-date process documentation, procedure notes and training materials to support consistency, knowledge sharing and business continuity.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, controls and reporting through standardisation, automation and simplification, helping to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Support internal and external audit requests by providing timely and accurate information, explanations and supporting documentation.
• Contribute to finance projects, change initiatives and continuous improvement activities as required.

Key skills and experience

• Qualified (or part-qualified) ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• Previous experience in a Finance Analyst, Financial Accountant or Management Accountant role.
• Strong balance sheet reconciliation and financial controls experience.
• Experience preparing journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience investigating financial variances and providing insightful commentary.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement.
• Strong Excel skills and experience working within complex finance environments.