Financial Manager

About the Role:

DSV is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Manager, Financial Analyst to join our team. As a key member of our finance team, you will be responsible for overseeing the central UK&IE Finance & Admin team, providing support to all locations with standardized, accurate financial analysis, reporting, customer invoicing, and cost management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the team to complete timely, accurate weekly financial reporting and processing of cost/revenue.
• Understand and perform appropriate month-end tasks, including budget/forecast management.
• Analyze and provide commentary on results - perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Continuously improve processes and reporting to maximize automation.
• Quickly and efficiently create new reports for specific projects or business initiatives to provide performance insights.
• Ensure team are working to the agreed RPP and trained to the required level.

Key Tasks:

• Ensure the quality and accuracy of customer invoicing & financial reporting is maintained to the highest standard to enable fact-based, insightful decision making. Seek to continually improve processes, maximizing automation.
• Monitoring, on an ongoing basis, the performance of all direct and indirect reports, undertaking regular reviews in accordance with the Company's procedures. In addition to ensure that the employee engagement concept known as the People Plan/appraisal system is always embedded and practiced.
• Reconcile revenue and cost management systems to ensure correct period posting. Identify within the P&L where a revenue/cost accrual is necessary and follow this process through. Firm understanding of the accrual process to ensure accruals are dropped/carried forward where necessary. Perform P&L variance analysis, providing commentary and recommendations to stakeholders. Provide in-depth analysis to support the budget/forecast process. Provide ad-hoc analysis for site-specific needs.
• Confident Finance lead for project meetings such as new customers, new sites, customer moves or exits. Understand the CAPEX process and manage/report costs in line with this. Accurately maintain cost trackers, presenting current spend vs actual in project updates. New customer invoice file creation.
• Maintain effective liaison with site management up to General Manager level. Ensure rate/profile changes communication is clear and confirmed in full for correct customer invoicing. Accurately update invoice files to reflect changes in rates/profile.
• To promote, support and implement the sites continuous improvement program/s and ensuring costs/savings are captured appropriately.
• Promoting the good name of DSV Solutions (and its associated companies within the DSV Group) by always adopting a professional approach. Ensuring that there is regular communication through team briefings with all direct reports in order that they are made aware of national and local developments affecting the Company.

General Responsibilities:

• Understand and comply with all relevant Company rules, agreements, policies, procedures, and with all relevant legislative requirements and codes of practice.
• Ensure Company business is treated in the strictest confidence and not disclosed to persons outside the Company.
• Act in a professional manner, ensure good working relationships are maintained, and promote a good image of the Company at all times.
• Maintain and comply with all Health, Safety, and Environmental standards and to appreciate the responsibility you have to adhere to the respective procedures.
• Be aware that the Company operates a Quality Assurance system ISO 9001:2008 and adhere to the respective procedures.
• Ensure a good standard of housekeeping through observance of relevant Company policies and ensure that work areas are secure and locked when unoccupied.
• Where appropriate, challenge and determine reasons for presence on site of any unauthorised person.
• Attend any development training as required in compliance with the Company's commitment to the Investors in People standard.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary Package and an opportunity to be a part of and grow within a driven and successful company, with a team of 75,000, operating in over 95+ countries.
• Be part of a company that has strong ambitions and targets for sustainability initiatives, both internally and externally. For further details on how DSV is working towards these targets, please see https://www.dsv.com/en/sustainability.
• Be part of a company that has strong company values, to find out more about DSV, including our Values, click https://www.dsv.com/en/about-us/our-values.
• In addition, we can offer access to a selection of employee benefits, such as: Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement from your start, which increases with length of service. Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme for Ultra-Low Emissions Cars Salary Sacrifice Cycle Scheme WeCare App, for support with physical and mental wellbeing, including access to GPs for you and your dependents. LifeWorks app for access to cashback and discounts on high street and online brands. Life Insurance and which includes access to expert probate support. Eyecare Voucher Scheme