FP&A Senior Analyst - Zellis : Job Details

About the role

As FP&A Senior Analyst, you’ll be a key partner to the Group FP&A team responsible for driving insight, improving financial processes, and ensuring robust financial decision making. You'll assist in implementing and running all the financial planning and management reporting processes, working with teams across Finance and the business to define and deliver robust, high-quality management information and insight.

To be successful you'll have strong analytical, process improvement, and communication skills. You'll also be happy to roll up your sleeves when needed to work through and solve problems, working across large data sets and providing quality analysis to enable action / results.

In this role you'll work on a hybrid basis, with Tuesdays and Wednesdays being office days in Bristol and the rest of the week working remotely.

Key areas of responsibility will include:

• Working closely with the Head of FP&A, providing clear financial planning and analysis across the business, focusing on the monthly closing, forecasts and budget reporting, and our 5 year plan.
• Production of high quality, insightful management reporting, including actuals, budgets, forecasts, and operating dashboard / KPIs for the Executive team and Board.
• Analysing consolidated budgets and forecasts and providing first round of challenge to the business areas, including building gap mitigation actions.
• Working closely with the Head of FP&A on the monthly closing process and reporting of actual results, providing detailed variance analysis of the results to all key business trends.
• Consolidating key FTE and KPI data on a monthly basis, in a consistent way as defined by FP&A.
• Driving focus on value and efficiency as part of the decision making process.
• Maintaining and continually improving current planning software models in Anaplan.
• Preparing ad-hoc analysis as required by CFO.

Skills & experience

• Qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA).
• Experience using planning / financial tools (Anaplan preferred, but not essential).
• Confident communicator with experience presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to identify key drivers of profitability.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel modelling skills.
• Strong analytical skills, able to identify and interpret trends and improve financial forecasting.
• Adept at influencing others, able to challenge stakeholders at all levels when needed.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.