Senior Expense Analyst

Fixed Term Contract Duration - 12 Months
What the Hiring Manager says
At Quilter our Group Expenses team truly partner with our business. We're experts in our field, offering finance advice that supports commercial decisions and financial targets, as well as ensuring the month end processes are delivered within the regulatory guidelines.
I am looking for a driven, team-oriented individual to join us. Committed to ensuring the team succeeds with all tasks and duties is essential, but you will have full support from colleagues and management. As part of the team, you will continue to develop and have exposure to supporting functions and business units within Quilter, as well as to senior members of the Finance Function.
About the Role
Level: 4
Department: Finance
Location: Southampton
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract, Hybrid (2-3 days in the office)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Our Senior Expense Analyst will play a key role within the Strategic Projects team supporting Transformation programmes in the building of business cases and ensuring project costs are accounted for correctly which will include expense analysis for business and Senior Finance stakeholders.
You will have good experience of project accounting principles, including interrogating data from finance ledgers and project forecasting applications.
You will be able to demonstrate strong attention to detail whilst also producing high quality, timely deliverables.
You will work with agility and at pace, escalating as appropriate whilst also showing credibility, professionalism and strong personal integrity.
You will have strong communication skills who is able to relate problem solutions orally, graphically and in writing.
You will be able to demonstrate working collaboratively as part of a team with all stakeholders and third parties to build strong relationships and support an environment of continual improvement.
About You
Applications from people with diverse backgrounds enables our inclusive organisation to thrive. If you feel you don't match our job description exactly, why not take a chance on yourself and apply? You could be exactly what this role needs.
Our ideal candidate will be a qualified Accountant with a strong working knowledge of a Finance business and varying degrees of appreciation for its strategy, processes, and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance. Whilst also having the ability to recognise structural issues within the organisation, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies.
You will have experience of working within a Finance function in Financial Services (including capital, regulatory and liquidity requirements).
You will be familiar with working with multiple stakeholders and to tight timescales in a delivery focused fashion.
You will have experience working in a highly results-orientated, growth and performance driven environment, with a focus on excellence.
Our purpose is to help the generations today and tomorrow to prosper. That means we must guide people through the complexity of planning for their future, with the right financial advice and investment solutions, so that they can have more secure financial futures.
In this ever-changing world, we see that our role in society has never been more meaningful, and we are committed to using our expertise and care to guide our customers through these challenging and unprecedented times.
Our impressive talents and capabilities set us apart, but our unwavering commitment to our customers is what defines us. We truly believe that we have all the ingredients to be the very best in our industry, and we want great people with the care and creativity that we need, to help us get there.
We are passionate about building an inclusive culture where everyone's contribution is valued, and our people can thrive. No matter what your role is or where you sit, your voice will matter. We hope you like what you hear and are interested in learning more about joining us.
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Core Benefits
Holiday: 26 days
Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in our incentive scheme, based on the company's performance and their contribution to it
Pension Scheme: 10% non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions
Benefit Allowance: A cash benefit allowance is payable in lieu of some of our core benefits.
In addition to our core benefits we offer a range of flexible benefits that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.