Finance Analyst
- Recruiter
- Capita Executive
- Location
- England, West Yorkshire, Leeds
- Salary
- £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
- Posted
- 18 May 2018
- Closes
- 25 May 2018
- Ref
- PCK392-268569
- Contact
- Jane Gorse
- Job Title
- Part Qualified
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
About Capita
We are the UK's leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions, with 68,000 staff across the UK, Europe, South Africa and India.
We are seeking a Finance Analyst for our Public Services Partnerships finance team based in Leeds. This is a key role working with the transformation and operational teams, responsible for pricing up new business and managing the day to day finances for the transformation programme. We are looking for someone who enjoys working proactively with project teams to get under the numbers to influence business performance.
Reporting to Head of Finance with a dotted line into the Transformation Finance Manager
Responsibilities
- New Business pricing -
- Helping to identify requirements for change controls, working with the commercial, transformation and service teams to take account of changes to baseline.
- Using your advanced excel and business partnering skills collate costs to draft up draft pricings for new business and suggest new methods to improve turnaround and approval times.
- Support the change team with the approval process, answering questions from the senior management team and updating the model for amendments.
- Work with the change team to ensure accurate reporting showing new business signed off and currently outstanding for approval.
- Set up codes and work with project managers on the reporting of performance for new business change.
- Creation project reporting packs and transition the finance management to the finance business partners when the change moves to BAU.
- Transformation Programme
- Partner with transformation project managers to deliver accurate and timely forecasts of financial performance, taking account any potential operational risks and opportunities.
- Produce accurate and timely reporting for the contract on a monthly basis.
- Ensure accurate representation of monthly P&L performance, posting all required ledger entries, reviewing the ledger to understand costs and supporting your transactions with appropriate reconciliations.
- Pushing to ensure that accurate purchase orders are raise in advance of requirements, contractors provide appropriate backup and invoices are approved on a timely basis.
- Others
- Maintain strong professional relationships across the business to influence financial performance and understand the contract, price and cost drivers and challenge assumptions where necessary.
- Become the subject matter expert for the project reporting on the account answering and resolving questions from various teams.
- Review forecast against the Business Plan and previous forecast targets, and ensure key drivers of variances are clearly understood.
- Deliver monthly scheduled and ad-hoc reporting to tight deadlines.
- Work with finance, operational and transformation teams to streamlining existing processes, designing new reports and processes where necessary.
Key Performance Measures
- Accuracy of monthly P&L and financial forecasts.
- Relevant areas of MI / business plans / reforecast prepared in accordance with guidelines.
- Monthly meetings held with relevant contract stakeholders to discuss performance and trends.
- Production of analysis / trends / risk & opportunity schedules with recommended actions.
- Any key issues highlighted.
- Accuracy & timeliness of key responsibilities.
- Working Capital kept to a minimum.
- Ability to use own judgement and initiative to anticipate and investigate queries.
Skills & Experience:
- Advanced MS Excel skills (Important)
- Part qualified accountant (ACCA or CIMA) (Important)
- Previous experience in a project accounting or Pricing role (Important)
- Diligent, attention to detail, willing to challenge
- Experience of Business & Reporting systems (SAP desirable)
- Ability to manage own workload and prioritise effectively to meet tight reporting deadlines.
- Good at communicating at all levels, with finance and non-finance teams.
- Ability to influence decision making process through clear presentation of financials
- Must be comfortable supporting the transformation programme on day to day finances and project reporting
- Must be comfortable working with Pms/Ops staff and leading the discussions
At Capita, training and development aren't optional extras: they're how we do our job.
We will motivate you to perform at your peak, recognising your achievements and rewarding them appropriately. As well as a generous basic salary we also give you 23 day's holiday company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, share save scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle.
Capita Resourcing welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Capita Resourcing is a trading name of Capita Resourcing Ltd. Services offered are those of an Employment Agency and Employment Business. Applicants will be required to register with us.
If you are successful with your application, you will need complete Capita's vetting and screening checks. This will include, but not be limited to, Reference Checks, a Criminality Check, Financial Probity Check, Sanctions Check and Media Check.