Finance Analyst

Elevation Accountancy and Finance are excited to be working with a fantastic business in the Manchester area as they look to recruit a Finance Analyst into the business on a full time, permanent basis.

The Financial Analyst provides financial reporting and analysis of client accounts to forecast future revenue and expenditures, determine budgets and monitor financial movements within the market. They also support leadership to inform critical business decisions by producing and or presenting research findings, reports, financial information and data to ensure all decisions and actions taken are both financially and commercially sound and in line with business objectives. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyse both current and past client account financial information and data to forecast future performance including forecasting future revenues, gross profit and costs, as well as modelling and budgeting
• Lead a range of client account financial processes and or activities including process calendarisation by consulting with commercial and operational management and focus on the delivery of best in-class quality output in line with agreed deadlines
• Develop reports, forecasts and models to support multiyear planning and forecasting by analysing financial data and contracts and communicate insights which inform and support wider business decisions
• Prepare and produce reports and or recommendations on financial performance at client level for regular business/leadership reviews to improve financial growth
• Reconcile account transactions by cross-referencing incoming and outgoing data and present information/data in the most effective format, also collaborate with relevant stakeholders across the client teams to ensure accurate reporting
• Responsible for the financial setup of the account in line with contractual requirements including revenue recognition verification, cost alignment and billing requirement
• Support billing volume reconciliation with contractual schedules and support invoice presentation and queries with clients
• Support contractual pricing activities including CPI pricing recalculation and verification of billing changes
• Support the verification and development of CCN Pricing schedules and validate profitability assumptions for new client offerings
• Track relevant sales, and actual performance, metrics and KPIs to evaluate financial performance by comparing/analysing both current and past results with plans and forecasts, also perform variance analysis, identify trends and or make recommendations for improvement where necessary

Person Specification:

• Educated to degree level or can demonstrate equivalent work experience
• Holds relevant professional qualifications, accreditations and or certifications
• Elevated level of written and spoken English A confident, enthusiastic and proactive communicator
• Fully confident in Microsoft Office 365 (such as Teams, Outlook, Excel, and Word)
• Demonstrates working knowledge of SAP, familiarity with data query/management tools
• Suitably qualified and or holds relevant experience in an accounting and or finance function applicable to the role
• Previous experience of working as a
• Management Accountant in a professional and or managed services environment
• Ability to use a broad range of financial, process and operational knowledge to support stakeholders and inform recommendations
• Ability to exercise diplomacy, is easy to approach, and respectful with an open, honest and responsive demeanour
• Ability to pay close attention to finer the details, also demonstrates discipline to ensure regular reviews and or processes run accordingly

If you meet this criteria and want to know more about the role, then please get in touch!