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SalaryDuration: ASAP - 5 months
Location: Hybrid - Balloch area
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £35,122 - £42,092
If you are a highly motivated and analytical finance professional looking for an exciting opportunity to make an impact, we want to hear from you! As the Finance Planning and Reporting Analyst Lead, you will play a key role in financial planning, analysis, and Reporting activities. You will collaborate closely with finance and business teams to ensure accurate financial reporting, provide insightful analysis, and support strategic decision-making.
Duties:
- Assist in the preparation of the annual statutory report and accounts for the National Park, collaborating with colleagues across the business and External Audit as needed.
- Support the initial preparation of monthly management accounts and financial reports, presenting results to managers, the Executive, the Board, and Board Committees, including commentary and variance analysis.
- Assist in the completion and submission of monthly budget monitoring reports to the Scottish Government.
- Aid in the preparation of Annual Budget and Reforecast exercises.
- Act as a business partner with budget holders under the direction of the Finance Manager, including preparation, profiling, and monitoring of budgets.
- Provide financial advice, guidance, and support to the organization to meet business needs.
- Assist with documenting policies, procedures, and controls.
- Support projects to automate and streamline finance operations and Reporting processes.
- Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as required.
Essential Skills/Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of preparing financial reports and inputs (including those required for IFRA16) for the annual report and accounts.
- Experience in preparing management accounts, budgets, and forecasts.
- Familiarity with financial systems, including nominal ledger coding structures.
- Hands-on experience with monthly and annual accounting cycles and supporting processes, such as Trial Balance, variance analysis, and reconciliations.
- Proficiency in journal preparation, including pre-payments and accruals.
- Experience in maintaining and Reporting on a fixed asset register.
- Ability to extract and manipulate data from finance systems using advanced Excel skills.
- Capability to translate financial information for use by non-finance colleagues.
- Self-starter, collaborative, and flexible worker with excellent interpersonal and report-writing skills.
- Ability to work under pressure to tight externally set deadlines.
- Driven with strong analytical skills and a proactive approach to identifying potential improvements.
- Part Qualified Accountant with significant hands-on experience.
- Flexible approach to working.
If you are interested in this position, please apply with your CV!
