Sowena Group are excited to be looking for an experienced FP&A professional to join a growing PE-backed organisation in North Manchester as a Finance Analyst.
I am looking for someone who is strong on excel and producing financial models. You’ll be comfortable working with financial data, producing meaningful analysis and communicating your findings clearly to stakeholders, non-finance and finance.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the monthly FP&A reporting cycle, producing accurate and timely financial reporting and analysis.
- Analyse financial performance, identifying key trends, variances, risks and opportunities.
- Prepare regular management reporting, dashboards and supporting commentary.
- Support the annual budgeting and rolling forecasting processes.
- Work with stakeholders across the business to gather information and ensure forecasts and budgets are accurate and complete.
- Develop and maintain financial models to support forecasting, scenario analysis and business planning.
- Analyse financial and operational data and translate findings into clear, useful insight.
- Investigate variances and provide analysis to help stakeholders understand business performance.
- Support Finance Business Partners and the wider FP&A team with commercial analysis and ad-hoc requests.
- Provide financial analysis to support projects, business cases and investment decisions.
You’ll have:
- Part or fully ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified or QBE
- Experience within FP&A, commercial finance and finance business partnering.
- Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting processes.
- Strong Excel skills, including financial modelling and analysis of large data sets.
- Good commercial awareness and an ability to understand the drivers behind financial performance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Experience developing financial models or undertaking scenario analysis.
Desirable Experience
- Experience using Power BI or similar reporting and visualisation tools.
- Experience working with ERP or finance systems.