high-impact Finance Analyst

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Job description Finance Analyst, UK and Ireland

Contract: Permanent Contract

Based in Newbury, UK.

Hybrid: 2 Days Per Week in Office.

Key Activities and Accountabilities

Financial Accounting and Reporting

• Own the integrity, accuracy and completeness of financial results, ensuring all material balances and transactions are understood, appropriately accounted for and supported by a clear audit trail.
• Lead key elements of the month-end and quarter-end close, proactively managing the timetable, identifying risks early and ensuring issues are resolved without compromising quality or deadlines.
• Perform insightful review of the profit and loss account, balance sheet and underlying data; independently investigate variances, identify root causes and present clear conclusions and recommended actions.
• Assist with the review and quality of balance sheet reconciliations, challenging aged, unusual or unsupported items and driving corrective actions to completion.
• Actively support the local review and coordination of annual statutory financial statements and external audit deliverables, working effectively with the PFC, auditors and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee accounting for assigned legal entities and high-risk areas, including revenue, accruals and tax.
• Ensure intercompany cross-charges are accurate, appropriately supported and completed on a timely basis, and taking the lead in resolving any related issues.

Internal Controls Compliance

• Critically assess control performance and supporting evidence, independently identifying deficiencies, root causes and practical remediation actions
• Maintain high-quality process narratives, risk and control matrices and related documentation, ensuring they accurately reflect current processes and responsibilities.
• Partner with process owners and the PFC to strengthen control execution, hold stakeholders accountable for agreed actions and ensure remediation is delivered on time.
• Challenge existing processes and lead continuous improvement initiatives that improve accuracy, control, efficiency and scalability.

Tax compliance

• Play a leading role in the UK Senior Accounting Officer compliance programme, assessing tax controls and driving actions with process owners in timely manner.
• Maintain tax control frameworks, risk matrices and process narratives, ensuring risks are clearly understood and controls remain effective.
• Coordinate the timely and accurate delivery of corporation tax, PSA, ERS and other local compliance requirements in partnership with internal teams and external advisers.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal tax stakeholders and external advisers.

Other

• Act as the key Local Finance partner to the PFC, setting expectations, reviewing outputs critically and holding teams accountable for quality and delivery.
• Lead or contribute to local and regional finance projects, bringing strong financial control, technical accounting and practical implementation expertise.
• Manage competing priorities and critical corporate and divisional deadlines with minimal supervision, escalating risks early and with proposed solutions.
• Build trusted relationships across Finance and the wider business.
• Promote a culture of ownership, continuous improvement and high-quality of work across the wider finance team.

Requirements

Education

Fully qualified accountant *(ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW or equivalent)** with strong technical accounting knowledge.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a complex, fast-paced finance function or accounting practice, with the credibility to operate independently.
• Strong experience of month-end close, balance sheet control, statutory reporting, audit and tax compliance.
• Proven relevant industry experience in a large organisation.
• Proven ability to analyse complex financial information, identify root causes, form independent conclusions and translate findings into clear actions.
• Experience overseeing work delivered by others, including setting expectations, reviewing quality and driving timely resolution of issues.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large data sets; Power BI capability is strongly preferred.

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