Project Financial Analyst

4 weeks ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Zenzo Digital Full time

Our client is the largest of their kind in Europe and have grown quickly over a short period of time through friendly acquisition. The Group is effectively one company but is made up of over 200 separate entities.

The Group have begun a Financial Transformation Programme to simplify their accounting processes which span across 20 European Countries. The programme has many workstreams with one being to reduce month end from 10 days to 5. To achieve that they need tounderstand and review their current "as is" processes on receiving and processing all General Ledgers to then enable them to make proposed improvements. We therefore need an experienced Project Financial Analyst.

The role will require this person to organise and facilitate sessions with a range of stakeholders to collect required inputs and review/analyse relating to the workstream. Conduct Market analysis, provide support to workstream topics, including developmentof meeting materials and documentation. Prepare G/L ownership matrix and Monthly enterprise timetable. Lead backlog cleaning of the ledgers.

**Key Deliverables**:

- Review current vs future state processes target and business case for both G/L reconciliation and Journal entries
- Identify tasks what can be done before traditional Month End including journal and reconciliation sequencing
- Collect all journals and identify the ones can be part of the "automated" ones (automated journal)
- Review /collect current MEC schedule : Periodic (quarterly)
- Finalise and validate the scope of "one enterprise level MEC Schedule"
- Create an Excel version of MEC schedule utilizing the current state deliverables and new outside MEC activities
- Prepare G/L ownership and reconciliation policy (G/L reconciliation) (risk, groupings, owners etc) also create reconciliation policy by account groups
- what good reconciliation look like
- Identify current balance sheet reconciliation backlog utilizing new G/L policy
- Set up a roadmap to clear current backlog
- Create a country selection scorecard and based on specific measurement pick up the pilot market. Engage with the relevant employees

**Person Specification/Competencies**:
Essential
- Clear communication with a wide variety of financial and non-financial
- stakeholders
- Strong academically — educated to degree level and professional accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA)
- Understanding of small companies and how they work, but needs big company
- background to understand/suggest best practice principles and help to drive change. It would be ideal if you have worked for large organisations with multi sites or are international or made up of smaller entities.
- Must have previous financial and project experience
- Strong analytical experience and a questioning mindset: this person should always be looking for where improvements can be made
- Thrives in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment — flexibility is key
- Excellent IT skills including advanced Excel, proficient PowerPoint and confident on various management reporting systems. Power BI dashboard skills a bonus
- Detailed understanding of financial processes
- Strong attention to detail and able to deliver 'right-first-time' results quickly without getting lost in the detail
- Deadline-focused and willing to put in the effort required to ensure they always meet them

Desirable
- Experience of OpenAccounts would be an advantage
- Experience of financial modelling and creating macros in Excel
- Experience of multi-site accounting

This role is remote but with occassional travel to their Bristol office 1 or 2 times per month.

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