Interim Senior Finance Analyst
Posted 4 days ago by Baker Charles
£600 Per day
Inside
Onsite
Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Interim Senior Financial Analyst role focuses on financial reporting and planning within a manufacturing context. The position involves managing monthly financial reporting, cost control, and inventory reporting while ensuring compliance with financial policies. The role also includes supporting global finance projects and enhancing operational automation. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with experience in manufacturing accounting and proficiency in data analysis tools like Power Query or PowerBI.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage timely and consistent reporting of monthly financials and operational metrics.
- Consolidate and report divisional monthly financials, ensuring adherence to processes.
- Support quarterly, annual, and strategic financial planning processes.
- Manage global finance projects to enhance consistency and automation.
- Ensure robust cost control and track target benefits while analyzing monthly variances.
- Identify and query anomalous costs and budget variances through analytical review.
- Partner with operations functions to develop financial reports and ensure inventory recognition aligns with finance policies.
- Oversee inventory reporting and standardize processes for data granularity.
- Ensure SAP compliance and adherence to inventory policies.
- Administer the annual cost roll process and manage internal controls and stakeholder relationships.
Key Skills:
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CAANZ).
- Experience in manufacturing accounting.
- Proficiency in Power Query or PowerBI.
- Strong analytical skills with high data sets.
- Experience in financial reporting and planning.
- Knowledge of SAP and inventory policies.
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: Hertfordshire
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
Interim Senior Financial Analyst (Manufacturing) £500–£600 per day (Inside IR35) Hertfordshire – minimum 2 days onsite (parking available) Initial 6-month contract (potential to extend or go permanent)
Key Responsibilities
- As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be central to our Financial Reporting and Planning .
- Your duties include managing the timely and consistent reporting of monthly financials and operational metrics.
- You'll also be responsible for the consolidation and divisional reporting of monthly financials, ensuring all processes adhere to the appropriate framework.
- You will support the quarterly, annual, and strategic financial planning processes, and manage global finance projects to enhance the consistency and automation of our operations.
- Your expertise in Cost Control is essential.
- You will ensure robust and consistent cost control, including the SAP standard costing structure, by tracking target benefits and analyzing monthly variances that cause under/over absorption.
- Using analytical review, you will identify and query any anomalous costs and budget variances.
- You will also partner with our operations functions—including Quality, Procurement, and Supply Chain—to support and develop financial reports and ensure that all inventory recognition on the balance sheet and P&L aligns with finance policies.
- You will also have ownership of inventory reporting , with the goal of standardizing and automating processes to increase the cadence and granularity of data.
- It is your responsibility to ensure SAP compliance and adherence to inventory policies, and to oversee the administration of the annual cost roll process.
- Beyond these core duties, your role will encompass broad Financial Stewardship , including internal controls, continuous improvement, and effective stakeholder management.
- The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CAANZ), with experience with manufacturing accounting being desirable.
- You must have experience with Power Query or PowerBI.
- You must be highly confident working with high data sets.