Finance Analyst
Job Reference: 887250
Bury St. Edmunds
£32,000 - £35,000 per annum
Hybrid Working
MacKenzie King are excited to be recruiting a Finance Analyst to join an international company that are a leader in their field. This role will manage accruals and reconciliations through strong communication skills and proactive risk management. The ideal candidate will be an organised and adaptable individual, with a problem-solving mentality, that can manage large volumes of data, work to different processing schedules and can represent the business in answering related queries.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Ensure that the basic accounting concepts of revenue recognition and matching are adhered to.
- Calculating monthly accruals and regular statements for aspects across Europe.
- Carry out monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
- Process invoices, payments, and calculations in a timely & accurate manner.
- Monitor advanced payments to ensure they will be fully recouped in the contract term. Flag any risk early, ensuring that any balance sheet positions can be always supported.
- Work in partnership with your Manager to ensure contracts are understood by the relevant stakeholders, and that systems data is maintained. Provide a professional response to queries from external parties on contracts and payments.
- Assist heavily with Audits
- Work with teams across Europe to understand future income streams, with regular budget meetings and appraisal of performance, timings, phasing, and balance of year commitments.
- Support the FP&A Manager & Financial Controller in the annual budgeting processing, taking a lead role in modelling the impact on sales budgets.
- Support the FP&A Manager on the production of rolling forecasts for P&L, BS & Cashflow, building out from our existing model into a model that is fit for multi-user input, strengthening integrity and accuracy of data.
- Work with the Financial Controller to continually highlight control weaknesses and resolution by either process improvements or technical development, with a particular focus on dataflow through the ERP from capture to processing, storing and output.
Qualifications and experience
- AAT Qualified
- 1-2 years’ experience working as part of a Finance function with involvement in calculating accruals, cashflow forecasting activities and carrying our balance sheet reconciliations
- Able to identify and implement improvements to systems and processes
- Experience in a “front-facing” role where you represented the business to external parties, answering queries and providing an explanation of processes (for example, customers, auditors)
- Proactive and effective communicator, adapting communication approach to enable effective collaboration and relationship building with both internal and external stakeholders
- Organising, maintaining, and analysing high volumes of transactional data
- Takes a methodical and holistic approach to data analysis, engaging with a variety of stakeholders to highlight the current risks and opportunities of the situation
- Intermediate Excel; pivot tables, sumif, indexmatch, vlook-up etc
- Organising data across a wide range of systems
If you would like to talk to a consultant about this role, contact:
Stephanie Capstick
"This is a great opportunity for a dynamic individual with an analytical approach and strong communication skills to undertake a varied role within an industry leading business."
Stephanie Capstick