Financial Planning

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom BES Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to join our team at the BES Group. As a key member of our finance team, you will play a critical role in supporting all FP&A activities and working closely with senior stakeholders to achieve a consistent level of high performance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ad-hoc value-added analysis to support business decision-making
  • Reporting and presenting financial information to senior stakeholders using Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
  • Maintaining and updating the business model, including the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
  • Supporting the FP&A Manager with budgeting and forecasting cycles
  • Improving reporting processes and ensuring documented procedures for key recurring tasks
  • Providing critical support to ensure reporting is 'value-added' and focuses on challenging and evaluating financial information
  • Contributing to ad-hoc projects to improve the business model and investigate alternatives to Excel-based modeling
  • Supporting business case Capex reviews and IT Opex requests
  • Assisting with new acquisitions and ensuring their results are accurately reflected in budgets and forecasts
  • Producing accurate group Board reports in line with deadlines
  • Contributing to the delivery of a high-performing, best-practice finance team
  • Identifying opportunities to improve finance processes and systems and implementing changes
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with finance colleagues and senior managers
Requirements
  • CIMA, ACA, or ACCA (or equivalent) qualified
  • Experience of preparing accurate and timely Board reports
  • Experience presenting to senior-level stakeholders
  • Extensive experience using Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, particularly pivots, sumifs, index match, lookups, and financial modeling techniques
  • Experience supporting ad-hoc insight requests
  • Experience of budget and forecast cycles
  • Experience maintaining process documentation for key recurring tasks
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to present financial information to senior stakeholders in a clear, concise, and confident manner
  • Strong technical, numeracy, and analytical skills, with a desire to learn new technical and analytical skills
  • Attention to detail and enthusiasm to challenge and improve processes
  • Ability to build strong internal relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues
  • Strong organization skills with the ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritize workloads
  • Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Bachelor's Degree - minimum 2:1 (desirable)
About the BES Group

The BES Group is a leading end-to-end solution provider in the Testing, Inspection, Certification, and Compliance sector. Our team of experts covers an extensive range of engineering services. We've grown from strength to strength over recent years, welcoming the best risk management businesses to our Group. As a result, we've expanded our team of experts and our suite of solutions in line with our customers' needs. We're private equity backed, which means we have the flexibility and support to move quickly and grow faster than any other company in our industry. We're innovative and forward-thinking, and we have the awards to prove it. But most importantly, we're focused on helping our customers leave nothing to chance.

Our head office is based in central Manchester, and it's the home to many of our central functions. Due to continued business growth, we're delighted to be recruiting for a Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to support all FP&A activities for the BES Group.

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