Business Analyst

Location : Newport
Type : Permanent
Salary : Competitive salary

Primary Purpose of Role:

The role forms a vital part of the UK Corporate Finance team and will primarily be responsible for assisting the FP&A process along with providing data analysis for the wider business. A key part of the role will also be assisting the transition from Oracle to SAP ERP systems and building financial business platforms to support the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Duties will include but are not limited to:

• Revenue and expense forecasting, scenario modeling, performance tracking, strategic planning and management reporting.
• Maintaining in-depth forecast models to track actuals and predict future financial performance
• Balance sheet and general ledger accounting
• Process improvement, ad-hoc modelling and quarter end close support
• Partnering with the business team to manage annual operating budgets, track results, expenses, headcounts, and provide visibility to divisional and finance leadership
• Analyzing monthly financial results, deriving key trends and insights, and drilling down to underlying performance drivers
• Distilling large amounts of data into actionable insights, leveraging financial and operational database systems

Key Behavioural Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill large amounts of data into coherent summarized written and oral presentations with appropriate context for business leaders
• Exhibits critical thinking and analysis skills
• Team player with ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Self-motivated and a strong sense of ownership
• Strong attention to detail
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a time sensitive environment

• Comfortable with reaching out to others and working with different levels and parts of an organisation

Skills and Experience:

• Solid accounting knowledge and ability to apply the accounting principles to work
• Excellent Excel skills and track record of being able to build complex financial models
• Experience of Oracle and SAP ERP systems beneficial
• Demonstrated financial or analytical experience with strong forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis acumen

Qualifications:

• ·         Degree level
• ·         Ideally part-qualified or holding a relevant accounting e.g. CIMA / ACCA
• ·         Preferably a knowledge and exposure to USGAAP and SOX practices