Senior Finance Analyst | £70,000 - £85,000 | Hybrid / Bristol | 12 Months FTC New for 2025!!
Immediate start in January ...
This highly successful ethical / people first business in Bristol is looking for a Senior Commercial Finance specialist due to numerous critical projects and strong internal growth.
This brand is instantly recognisable and has a fantastic loyal and diverse customer base …
Reporting into the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis, your role will be to provide stakeholders with accurate, timely and comprehensive financial information.
Some of this will be through regular reports and analysis, but much of it will be against specific projects and business opportunities.
Naturally we are looking for a candidate with expert modelling, analytical prowess, excellent commercial acumen and exceptional stakeholder management skills.
Financial Planning
Consolidate multiple financial planning models and reporting suites onto our core corporate planning platform.
Redesign the finance planning process and workings to deliver efficiencies, enabling a faster turnaround of the corporate financial planning cycle.
Enhance current analysis to provide senior management with insights into key balance sheet ratios, funding projections, and information for investor relations.
Financial Analysis
Develop a robust and automated variance analysis process, monitoring and calculating variance to plan and financials performance.
Provide expert analytical and modelling support, as required, across the broader finance teams Support the development of a 'pricing model' to compare priced values against results and forecasts.
Candidate Profile:
· You will have expert analytical, mathematical and IT skills with a passion for problem solving and financial modelling.
· You will be self-motivated, proactive and innovative, with the ability to work autonomously towards tight deadlines and prioritise workloads, handling multiple responsibilities simultaneously without compromising accuracy.
· You will have experience of building strong and enduring relationships across all levels and departments of the business.
· You will have excellent attention to detail and the drive to continually evolve and improve processes and outputs.
· You can accurately calculate and confidently present complex financial information, insights and recommendations in a concise and understandable way to a wide range of stakeholders.
· You will be flexible, with the ability to adapt to changes in the business environment and to adjust financial modelling in response to evolving circumstances and strategies.
· Qualified Accountant, or highly experienced financial modeller or Finance analyst
· Expert IT Skills, including Excel, and business analytics and planning software
· Available to engage on a 12 Month FTC in the next few weeks.
This is a rare opportunity to take a genuine market leader in a strategically crucial role, utilising your commercial skillset to improve the analysis, reporting and processes.
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