Finance Analyst

Aldershot | Base

Employer: FDS
Sector/Specialism: Accountancy

Finance Analyst
Salary:- £32,000 - £35,000

Year-on-year, we’re growing more and more rapidly. To help us maintain this, we’re seeking a savvy, motivated Finance Analyst to join our world-class finance team. We need you to function as the go-to source of business intelligence, as you help our busy Operations to continue working as smart as possible. Enterprise Services Field Delivery Ltd (FDS) is purely focused on providing IT Services as part of the DXC Technology group of companies across the UK and Ireland.

With an annual turnover of around $40m, you will account for payroll and third party spend of approximately $20m a year, across several vendors and processes. You will report directly to the UK&I Finance Manager.

It’s in this logistics environment that you’ll teach us a thing or two. You’re the type of professional who knows how to spend time wisely, you sweat the financial details that matter, and you instinctively know which details don’t add value.

The role will be working remotely from home with the ideal candidate being willing to travel when required to Head office based in Aldershot.

This is an excellent opportunity to join us and as an employee you will gain access to a large library of training courses and accreditations to help further your skills and development.

We also offer an excellent benefits package including personal pension plan, and various other flexible benefits including private medical cover, life insurance, and flexible holiday to name a few.

Key responsibilities:

- Hold regular finance reviews and present on financial performance.
- Perform analysis on the overall integrity of the P&L for areas of your responsibility.
- Act as the deputy for the UK&I Finance Manager, providing critical and trusted support.
- Perform month end close tasks including preparing and posting journals into SAP, monthly cost allocations, accruals and prepayments, ensuring strict deadlines are adhered to.
- Assist in the completion of regular FP&A requirements including monthly forecasting and annual budgeting.
- Liaising with Procurement and business managers to ensure timely recognition of costs.
- Work with operational managers to ensure appropriate profitability of customer accounts in your area of responsibility is maintained.
- Opportunity to partake in finance and business projects as allocated by the UK&I Finance Manager.
- Opportunity to work on Finance system and process improvements.

Essential skills and personal qualities:

- Minimum part qualification in CIMA/ACCA or equivalent with drive to continue studies.
- Demonstrable problem-solving ability
- Highly analytical and detail-oriented, you possess a strong business sense
- You combine your professional competency with an ability to develop new ideas, and creative solutions: you also have a track record of implementing these to great effect
- Good-level proficiency in Excel; you’re comfortable with pivots, lookups and ability to write formulas
- Organised multitasker: you prioritise your workload, enabling you to meet tight deadlines, while achieving results, especially in a fast-paced, high- growth environment
- You’re a proven communicator, with excellent presentation skills when working with multiple peer groups and varying levels of seniority
- You hold a UK Current Driving license.

Desired Skills:

- Minimum 2 years of similar experience.
- Advanced MS Excel skills.
- An understanding of macros and the ability to write VBA/macros in MS Excel would be a bonus.
- Experience in using SAP, or other ERP system.
- Experience in dealing with large amounts of data.

FDS an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

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