Financial Analyst Iv

**Full time, 3 days weekly in the office**

This position is a Finance Business Partner to the UK Pest Division of Ecolab and involves providing financial planning, analysis and decision support to the regional business leaders to drive execution of business plans and ensure profitable and sustainablegrowth.

**Requirements**:
- Qualified accountant, ideally with Finance BP experience, really good level of MS Office and Excel, strong personality needed
**Tasks**:

- Acting as a Finance BP for the sales mg. team (anything from a financial perspective), monthly reporting, forecasting the sales, commercial reporting
- Supporting the Operations team, there are some travel requirements, driving license would be nice

**Primary responsibilities**:
Partner with the Business including members of the Senior Leadership Team to turn financial information into understandable messages that are used to drive value for the business.
- Identify risks and opportunities and provide decision support and analytics to drive step change improvements.
- Challenge the business and drive decisions by understanding variances, helping the business to manage spend and creating corrective action plans where necessary.
- Build bottom-up department budgets and forecasts, understanding the key challenges facing the business and alignment with Group targets
- Drive in-year delivery of plans/forecasts by partnering with the business to deliver specific cost actions as required across the Division.
- Work closely with the Market Finance Team (Finance Shared Services Centre) to ensure the ensure timeliness, integrity and accuracy of country results.
- Contribute to the rolling forecast process for your departments
- Ensure consistency in reporting of actual, forecast and plan with Ecolab accounting policies and procedures.
- Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced Excel user (pivots, advanced calculations and modelling skills)
- A high-impact individual who is comfortable working with senior management
- Proven stakeholder management abilities
- Self-motivated, high-energy and adaptable