Finance Analyst - Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited : Job Details

Your new company

Hays Accountancy & Finance are partnering with a well-known and established wholesale/distribution group to recruit a driven and dynamic Finance Analyst for their Swindon office. This newly created role within the Finance Business Partnering team exists to support the operation with reporting, analysis, and insight. You will work alongside the Finance Business Partner and Operational colleagues to bring insight into their performance, support with budgeting and forecasting and work on projects aimed at improving analysis. A great opportunity offering career development opportunities along with remote/office hybrid working and further group benefits. Suited to a driven, part-qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA finance professional looking to add value.

Your new role

Your key duties will involve supporting the Finance Business Partner with weekly operational reporting, preparation of monthly financial review presentations for senior management, budgeting/forecasting support, along with tracing cost efficiency initiatives across the various sites within the group. You will develop/report on metrics aligned to operational performance teams, performance benchmarking across various sites identifying best practice and opportunities for improvement. You will use excellent organisation and planning capabilities to ensure promises are delivered and deadlines are met; you will support continuous improvement projects working closely with the business partnering teams and management accounting teams to drive reporting standards.

What you'll need to succeed

To be considered for this fast-paced Finance Analyst role, you will need experience in a similar position, ideally part-qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA studying towards full qualification, with excellent MS Excel skills. You will have experience with financial reporting/analysis tools, strong communication skills to partner at all levels internally/externally, with the ability to adapt to business needs within a changing and fast-paced environment. You will have a proactive and positive working approach, an ability to manage workloads to meet deadlines and be curious to understand the business, along with drivers of performance. You will be a quick learner, keen to progress and comfortable with a range of financial systems. Experience with multi-site organisations, project management skills, Power BI and SAP would be advantageous but not essential.

What you'll get in return

This permanent Finance Analyst role offers a salary up to £45,000 per annum dependable on experience based in Swindon, Wiltshire with remote/office hybrid working. Benefits include a health care cash plan, contributed pension scheme, study package for finance qualification if applicable, employee assistance programmes, progression/development opportunities, a holiday buy scheme and further group benefits. A progressive opportunity where you can really impact key business decisions with analytics and business partnering working with a well-known group.

What you need to do now

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