Finance Analyst

A Finance Analyst is sought to join an exciting and successful company based in Crewe, Cheshire. Joining a large, dynamic finance team this is an excellent opportunity to further your Financial Analyst career in a high profile, commercial team with an excellent track record of promoting from within.

Responsibilities of your new role

Reporting to the Finance Manager, your duties as Finance Analyst will include: 

• Preparation of monthly margin analysis highlighting key variances vs prior periods, budget and forecast 
• Analysis of monthly fee income into fee type, correlating fee income with fee drivers to predict future trends in performance
• Investigation of significant variances and anomalies in margin performance
• Preparation of customer level margin, allowing identification of risks and opportunities and understanding of the drivers for key margin variances
• Month end reporting, including variance to budget and forecast
• Monthly attrition calculations, including analysis across the business in conjunction with data analysts
• Preparation of data for month end accruals including analysis of transactions and volume performance for introducer bonus schemes
• Supporting forecasting volume and margin performance 

Candidate requirements

The successful Finance Analyst will demonstrate the following qualifications and experience: 

• Financial experience including management accounts preparation and month end reporting cycles
• Professional qualification: end stages AAT or initial phase CIMA/ACCA
• Highly committed to quality and accuracy
• Flexible and adaptable, comfortable in a changing environment
• Enthusiastic self-starter, driven by the intent to succeed and achieve personal and company goals
• Resilient team player with a responsible and positive outlook
• First-rate communications skills; demonstrating confidence, adaptability, dependability and initiative
• Excellent Excel and Microsoft skills are imperative
• Highly numerate, attention to detail and financial reconciliation - including ensuring consistency across multiple reports containing the same information
• Comfortable working within tight deadlines, managing multiple priorities and turning information around quickly
• Strong organisational skills and self-review discipline
• Able to learn new skills and systems quickly
• Questioning approach
• The ability to summarise and contextualise financial performance - understand what it means to the business, what is valuable information to report on and what should be left out 

Benefits

The successful Financial Analyst will benefit from:

• £22,000 - £25,000 per annum
• Full study package
• Excellent company benefits
• Progressive company
• Good transport links

Apply now

Please submit your application today to be considered immediately for this excellent Finance Analyst opportunity in Crewe.