Senior Financial Analyst

A quick look at the role

The Senior Financial Analyst has responsibility for all accounting and management accounts and reporting for the Municipal collections division. The role works closely with the business (typically divisional business unit Directors or Regional General Managers) to ensure robust financial controls are in place, adhered to and to proactively suggest performance improvement initiatives.

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Your core responsibilities

• Lead, manage and develop direct reports (typically Financial Analysts) as part of an effective team providing timely financial data and support to the business.
• Oversee preparation of monthly management accounts by Financial Analysts, including variance analyses and bridges, for each of the selected business units and the division as a whole, to meet reporting deadlines and provide useful feedback/explanations of financial performance.
• Compilation and distribution of divisional monthly financial reporting pack in conjunction with FBPs to provide financial and non-financial staff with useful financial data and KPIs as a foundation for sound commercial decision making and analysis.
• Preparation of flash reporting in month for their respective business units/regions and prepare commentary on key variances to forecast and actual performance at month end.
• Presentation/explanation of monthly results to divisional FD/MD and other senior personnel to enable understanding of profitability.
• Oversee monthly CAPEX reporting and forecast updates to ensure adherence to budget and data availability for change programmes/new business cases.
• Assist FBPs and operations in the preparation of budgets, forecasts and five year plans for the business units of responsibility to aid and assist accurate planning.
• Oversee consolidation of budgets, forecasts and five year plans for the division (including central submissions and divisional outputs for presentations, etc.) to enable the business to meet planning deadlines with accurate and fully explained data.
• Support the new business bids, pricing and financial modelling as appropriate for their respective business units/regions - for example Majors pricing in I&C
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations to ensure controls are in place and being adhered to.
• Deal with end of year audit queries to support the sign-off of year-end accounts.

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Our essential requirements

• Qualified or final stage ACCA/CIMA
• Experience of working with and supporting operational colleagues
• Strong system skills including advanced Excel and some Power BI
• Management accounting experience gained in the service, logistics or waste industries an advantage

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