Financial Planning & Analyst

Role

Our client is looking for an immediate interim Financial Analyst to assist them for 3-6 months. You will be responsible for following duties:

• Produce weekly Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable reporting.
• Maintain reports covering outstanding customer invoices, supplier balances and working capital performance.
• Attend weekly working capital review calls with Business Units.
• Review and discuss key overdue customer invoices and supplier payment positions with stakeholders.
• Record actions, track progress and ensure agreed actions are followed through to completion.
• Escalate issues, risks and delays where appropriate.
• Support the preparation of weekly and monthly cash reporting.
• Maintain cash, receivables and payables reporting packs.
• Ensure data used in reporting is complete, accurate and consistent.
• Investigate and explain significant movements in reported balances.
• Provide concise commentary highlighting key issues, risks and opportunities.
• Refresh and maintain existing Excel-based reporting models.
• Work with and analyse operational and financial datasets using Excel.
• Build and maintain Pivot Table and lookup-based analysis.
• Reconcile reports back to source systems and bank data.
• Support investigation of data issues and work with stakeholders to improve reporting quality.
• Produce accurate and timely management information.
• Work closely with Business Unit finance teams, Treasury and Group Finance.
• Follow up outstanding actions and information requests.
• Challenge incomplete, inconsistent or unusual data where appropriate.
• Build effective working relationships across the business.
• Clearly communicate reporting outputs, issues and required actions.
• Support ongoing improvements to reporting and working capital management processes.
• Identify practical opportunities to improve reporting quality, efficiency and controls.
• Contribute ideas to improve visibility of cash, receivables and payables performance.

Profile

The successful interim Financial Analyst will have 3+ years experience.

You must be immediate or 1 weeks notice to be considered for this role.

Salary & Benefits: This role is paying between £200-£250 per day Umbrella (DOE)