Financial Strategy

**WEX Europe Services is a leading provider of Fuel cards operating across multiple European countries. We are a high volume, low margin business, reliant on improving the volume of sales to continue our revenue growth.**

Due to ongoing growth, we are looking for a **Financial Strategy **specialist to focus on new initiatives and performance metrics of the business, how it impacts our financials, identify opportunities and support growth across the business.

**MAIN GOAL AND OBJECTIVE**:
This role will focus on your ability to model future initiatives by analyzing key internal and external metrics. You will need to draw up business case submissions to secure investment, securing the forward strategy of the business

You will need to build relationships across the organization to understand what will be different in the future, how risks, opportunities and strategic initiatives will affect the Financial success of the business then factor this insight into your models.

You will need to analyse the success of your predictions and explain the variances, providing insight, actions, and contingency plans

**EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED**:

- Financial background preferably newly qualified
- Highly skilled at dealing with large volumes of data in Excel and other tools, ideally Access, SQL, Power BI
- Highly numerate, attention to detail and financial reconciliation - including ensuring consistency across multiple reports containing the same information
- Comfortable working within tight deadlines, managing multiple priorities, and turning information around quickly
- Strong organisational skills and self-review discipline
- Able to learn new skills and systems quickly
- Questioning approach
- Excellent communication skills to relay key findings
- Ability to summarise and contextualise performance - understand what it means to the business, what is valuable information to report on, and what should be left out

**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**:

- Enthusiastic self-starter, driven by the intent to succeed and achieve personal and company goals
- Skilled at modelling large and complex data sets - advanced Excel skills are essential as is experience of MI production for a variety of audiences
- Confident presenting your work and able to summarise to the key points
- Financial experience including management accounts preparation and month end reporting cycles
- Highly committed to quality and accuracy
- Flexible and adaptable, comfortable in a changing environment where reporting requirements will change regularly
- Resilient team player
- Responsible and positive outlook
- First-rate communications skills; demonstrating confidence, adaptability, dependability and initiative

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Financial support for the capital planning process
- Data modeling for new strategy direction ie Electronic Vehicles
- Make correct decisions for business to maximise profitability and return
- Provide business partnering and accountability of target deliverables into business

**WHAT'S ON OFFER?**
- Competitive basic salary or between £40k - £50k dependent on experience
- Working Monday - Friday, 8.30 am - 5 pm
- Fantastic work-life balance, hybrid working (minimum of 1 day per week in the office)
- Company pension & life assurance scheme
- A generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Holiday purchase scheme, the ability to get an additional 5 days annual leave per year
- Employee discount platform
- Incentives schemes, companywide and departmental
- Great working environment
- Continuous training, coaching and development within a helpful and encouraging environment
- Progression opportunities
- Employee referral programme

**What’s Next?**

If you have the passion and drive to be successful in the **Financial Strategy **specialist** **role, we would love to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £45,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Private medical insurance
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester, M2 3HR

Reference ID: R10362