Senior Financial Analyst

Overview

In this role you support regional financial leadership by delivering accurate management accounts, budgets and forecasts, and by driving performance through variance analysis and KPI-driven insights. You partner with operations to improve financial controls and lead efficiency initiatives across multiple sites. You’ll interact with the regional leadership team, contribute to audits, and help shape regional financial planning and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support RGMs to deliver budget and forecast for the year across periods
• Join RGM leadership team meetings and conduct regular 121s
• Post journals above gross margin and correct source data to reduce adjustments
• Coordinate with central team to ensure accuracy of journal submissions and explain variances
• Prepare monthly management accounts with variance analyses and bridges
• Meet monthly with business to discuss variances and actions using KPI data
• Lead budget process for area and present to RGM and senior finance
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations ensuring correct postings
• Own external and internal audit queries for the region
• Use site visits to identify efficiency opportunities
• Lead efficiency programmes for each region
• Oversee monthly CAPEX and cashflow reporting and drive efficiency via data

Key requirements

• Qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA
• Experience supporting operational/commercial staff across multiple locations
• Management accounting experience in service, logistics or waste industries advantageous
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to multi-task and flexible
• Articulate, confident and assertive
• Analytical with quick issue assessment and solution implementation
• Robust, resilient under pressure and able to meet tight deadlines
• Organised with good planning and prioritisation

• communication
• assertiveness
• analytical thinking
• Microsoft Excel
• management accounting
• variance analysis

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