Senior Finance Analyst

Job Title: Senior Finance Analyst - Functional Business Partnering
Function: Finance
Permanent
Hours : Full time 37 hrs
Location(s): Harlow or Glenrothes/Hybrid with 1 or 2 days a week on site.
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A key role supporting the Head of Finance – Operations to deliver business advice and coordinated management of functions, capital and opex investment. It will directly impact the profitability and competitiveness of the organisation and cuts across all functions and business, offering a wide exposure to senior leaders on both tactical and strategic issues.
Functional Business Partnering:
Owning Business Partnering relationships with senior leaders and complex functions
Functional headcount, utilisation and overhead forecasting & reporting to support the Integrated Business Planning (IBP), LRP, AOP and monthly cycles.
Transform & standardise forecasting & reporting across the whole business
Owning the functional plans/forecasts, driving performance versus annual plan/forecast and cost optimisation
Drive interlock between functions and the business. Supporting functional leads to create, manage, and monitor functional dashboards/metrics, service level agreements (SLAs) and service catalogues, to drive efficiency and operational performance
Supporting Manufacturing operational planning by acting as the conduit for PM, BD and Ops teams. For example, linking sales/unit plans to touch and support hours, machine hours, supply chain, etc, to drive business growth, efficiency, and operational performance
Supporting functional leads to create and manage zero based budgets and new and robust finance governance processes
Inputting into the Risk and Opportunities register for rates
Supporting Business Restructuring and Indirect Cost Optimisation Projects
Supporting the implementation of new Finance Systems and associated processes as it relates to functional forecasting and rates

Support the consolidated capital and change forecast, driving performance versus annual plan/forecast
Drive maximum ROI out of capex and change projects. Track benefit realisation of capex and change projects
Supporting UK forecast for capitalisation of assets and the depreciation forecast aligned to the latest forecast capitalisation plan.
Creating functional business cases and AR generation (inc. Supporting the monthly SLT Investment Review Boards covering capex and change projects (AR spend v plan v approved AR, etc). Supporting UK SLT reviews for material capex and change projects
Inputting into the Risk and Opportunities register for investments
CIMA / ACCA / ACA (or equivalent) part qualified
Relevant years’ experience in finance roles
Comfortable with data and detail but having the ability to extract high level messages. Being able to prioritise effectively and having an agile mindset
Excellent planning skills
Strong communicator and networker with a thirst for understanding the business model, providing meaningful and actionable insight, critical thinking and an ability to think differently about existing problems. Previous experience of dealing one-to-one with both senior and external stakeholders and building relationships
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial staff
Excellent systems skills, including SAP and Microsoft Office
Working in a programme environment / knowledge of accounting for long term contracts
Creative and entrepreneurial, providing innovative solutions that drive value to the business
Understanding of Project reporting including EACs & EVMS
All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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