Address Crawley
Competitive
12-03-2024
Job Details
Salary: Competitive
Hours: Full Time
Location: Crawley Hybrid working (3 days in office)
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 12th March 2024
In a nutshell
Join us as a Financial Planning and Reporting Analyst, you will be responsible for performance analysis and controls to support the business strategy, supporting in the development of the forecast and budget process. Utlising data analysis tools to produce a consolidated picture for decisions to be made for our leaders and board members.
You will support Management reporting whilst providing insightful analysis that focuses on utilising data and analytics. Working within the Financial Planning team you will gain experience across various areas to improve the understanding of business performance and be a trusted advisor facilitating business and financial conversations.
Day to day
- Create and produce regular financial, management and Board reports, for our internal Leadership Team, Board members and external stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in easy to understand key messages, utilising metrics and KPI reporting.
- Recognise how decisions impact the wider business strategy and provide detailed insight into the forecast, showing risks and opportunities.
- Use a continuous improvement mindset to recommend enhanced reporting, either progressing existing reports or developing new items through utilising appropriate data visualisation tools.
- Coordinate and ensure that teams understand their P&L responsibilities and offers support tools to assist in forecasting.
- Facilitates with the preparation of updated forecasts and supports the Long-Term Plan for strategic decision making.
- Driven to develop their business acumen within the airline industry and being part of the bigger picture. Ability to organise and manage different stakeholders, with the aim of contributing towards the Company's goals and objectives.
About you
You will be qualified or part qualified accountant with relevant finance experience seeking to progress into a performance and strategy reporting role?
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
- Expertise in using Microsoft Excel and other software tools to develop and produce high-quality financial models. Such models will be capable of gathering financial and non-financial data to identify problems or answer questions and deliver robust, structured solutions that integrate with existing models and/or generate practical financial recommendations.
- Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint and other reporting tools to produce slides, reports and decks that can summarise important financial messages to a high standard.
- Proactive with a keen focus on attention to detail and self-review, willing to support on ensuring accuracy and managing controls within our financial reporting system. Constantly seeking ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of the processes.
- Competent in analysing data, using many formulas and other key functionality to review, interpret and summarise key messages. With proven examples of presenting it in a format that highlights key findings, actions, and recommendations.
- Experience in partnering with financial and business stakeholders, possessing the interpersonal skills to build a network of contacts that will be used for collaboratively producing key financial outputs for senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience working in fast-paced environment working simultaneously on more than one task.
- Desirable but not essential is system-based experience with TM1, and data visualisation tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.
