Location
England | United Kingdom
Job description
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Cheshire Permanent £50,000 - £60,000 per year
- Great opportunity for a newly qualified accountant
- Lots of progression and development on offer in this role and company
About Our Client
A market leading FTSE 250 listed business in Cheshire are looking to hire an ambitious Finance Analyst to their business. This company market leading and work with large well known organisations across different industries. Despite the size, the business is growing, which has created this brand new role.
Job Description
- Work within the Finance Team to provide high quality and accurate financial analysis and forecasting support aligned to strategic and customer priorities, within the commercial mechanisms of the contract.
- Day to day this means working with Operational teams to develop, populate and refine cost models and provide the region with an accurate picture of the historic and future financial performance and satisfy internal reporting/governance requirements.
- You will be responsible for ensuring financial modelling is performed in accordance with best practice, high standards of integrity as well as applicable accounting standards and that cost capture and risk identification is comprehensive.
- The role requires the delivery of accurate financial forecasting models to the Business
- Unit and operational contract support as required.
- Understanding actual v forecast variances to feed back into improved model assumptions.
- Work within the contract to challenge assumptions and make recommendations for efficiency improvements in order to sustain and grow profitability.
- Provide general ongoing continuous improvement activities for the Finance Team as a whole, such as cost reduction/profit enhancement initiatives, process improvement, cost model enhancements, and scenario planning to determine a range of potential financial outcomes.
The Successful Applicant
- Qualified accountant (with a recognised Accounting body such as ACA, ACCA, ACMA)
- Advanced financial forecasting and strong analysis skills
- Excellent Excel skills, preferably including development of forecast models
- Financial/commercial operations experience
- Experience in delivering accurate financial forecasting to a business or large contract on a regular basis, ideally monthly
- You have experience undertaking a range of quantitative analysis required to develop cost assumptions, understand trends and influence business unit stakeholders to affect outcomes, with highly effective organisation skills, allowing you to balance competing demands and workload peaks.
Michael Page is part of the PageGroup. Michael Page is a trading name of Michael Page International Recruitment Limited. Registered in England No. 04130921Registered Office: 200 Dashwood Lang Road, Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2NX
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