Finance Analyst

Decision Support - Finance Analyst

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

Benefits: Bonus at Target, Highly Competitive Pension and Flexible Benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Analyst / Decision Support Analyst to join a successful and growing Financial Service provider in Edinburgh on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing commercial finance support to central functions.

Principle Accountabilities

• Providing detailed cost analysis with understanding of cost drivers to support the business in driving efficiency and value for money

• Supporting Quality and timely annual and five year cost plans (including stress scenario forecasts)
• Producing monthly forecasts to facilitate and drive the understanding of the cost base and to assist cost centres.

• Supporting & Challenging, acting as financial support for the programmes and specific cost functions.
• Building constructive, challenging relationships with business teams, providing financial support and challenge on current and future business performance.
• Financial Planning - Working collaboratively with technology to help them build and complete budget submissions for the Banking platform costs.
• Challenging assumptions to deliver a realistic, balanced budget to senior management.
• Providing monthly desktop forecasts as required.
• Cost Management - Partnering with budget holders to ensure costs are fully understood and controlled, providing insightful analysis to assist in internal stakeholder decision making and effective financial performance.
• Ensuring models are accurate, up-to-date, and maintained in line with model management framework and policies.

Skills, knowledge and experience

• A part qualified or newly qualified accountant
• Experience of financial reporting and management accounting or have financial modelling qualifications and commercial experience
• Experience in the financial services industry preferred but not essential
• Good communication skills both verbal & presentation to both financial and non-financial stakeholders
• Well organised and able to prioritise workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure
• Highly numerate, with excellent analytical and problem solving skills and attention to detail with an ability to think and reason logically
• Customer focussed team player with ability to work closely with others to deliver results
• Proven track record of working on own initiative, with the ability to introduce fresh thinking to the role and the wider team
• This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward thinking business that will / can provide realistic scope for career progression.