Financial Reporting Analyst
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £45,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2024 |
| Location: | S8 0XL |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | St John Ambulance |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 243773JCP |
Summary
Financial Reporting Analyst
Full Time – Permanent – (Hybrid)
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
Hybrid, Flexible working
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
Job Summary
The Finance Reporting Analyst role supports the delivery of our management accounts. As a key member of the Financial Reporting Team and partner to the Finance Business Partner team, you will review, reconcile and prepare accruals and prepayments, ensure that income is correctly accrued or deferred, allocate indirect costs and identify and correct errors within the accounting ledger in order to support the production of timely, accurate management accounts in accordance with internal deadlines. Reporting to the Lead Management Accountant, and supporting Finance Business Partners, you should be able explain management accounting and reporting variances and issues, and provide support to ensure that the organisation fulfils all of its management accounting obligations.
This role is also responsible for supporting the production of financial forecast and budget in collaboration with the wider finance team, particularly the finance business partners. This role requires an understanding of accounting concepts, strong and effective communication skills, the ability to build relationships with a variety of stakeholders, as well as being able to work autonomously, be resilient and provide strong and accurate commentary on transactional balances.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Educated to GCSE level or equivalent (Grade C), minimum of 5 including Maths & English
Professional Accounting Qualification (qualified or late stage part qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA with 5 years+ relevant experience)
Experience in preparing and explaining accounting transactions
Experience of detailed reconciliation of financial information
Knowledge of Sun (or similar) Accounting system (including Q&A reporting tools)
Experience in documenting financial processes and controls
About the Role
Ensure that accrual, prepayment, deferred and accrued income balances, allocations and other financial transactions are correctly posted to the Sun Accounts ledger, with supporting reconciliations, to support the delivery of accurate and complete monthly management accounts to strict deadlines.
Analyse, calculate and prepare financial information, including detailed breakdowns of accrual, prepayment, deferred and accrued income balances, liaising with budget holders where necessary.
Maintain capex and balance sheet reconciliations and monitor supplier schedules of activity to ensure transactions are recognised correctly.
Support the preparation of financial forecasts and budgets, liaising with finance business partners and operational teams to provide accurate information.
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here
For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.
Full Time – Permanent – (Hybrid)
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
Hybrid, Flexible working
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
Job Summary
The Finance Reporting Analyst role supports the delivery of our management accounts. As a key member of the Financial Reporting Team and partner to the Finance Business Partner team, you will review, reconcile and prepare accruals and prepayments, ensure that income is correctly accrued or deferred, allocate indirect costs and identify and correct errors within the accounting ledger in order to support the production of timely, accurate management accounts in accordance with internal deadlines. Reporting to the Lead Management Accountant, and supporting Finance Business Partners, you should be able explain management accounting and reporting variances and issues, and provide support to ensure that the organisation fulfils all of its management accounting obligations.
This role is also responsible for supporting the production of financial forecast and budget in collaboration with the wider finance team, particularly the finance business partners. This role requires an understanding of accounting concepts, strong and effective communication skills, the ability to build relationships with a variety of stakeholders, as well as being able to work autonomously, be resilient and provide strong and accurate commentary on transactional balances.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Educated to GCSE level or equivalent (Grade C), minimum of 5 including Maths & English
Professional Accounting Qualification (qualified or late stage part qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA with 5 years+ relevant experience)
Experience in preparing and explaining accounting transactions
Experience of detailed reconciliation of financial information
Knowledge of Sun (or similar) Accounting system (including Q&A reporting tools)
Experience in documenting financial processes and controls
About the Role
Ensure that accrual, prepayment, deferred and accrued income balances, allocations and other financial transactions are correctly posted to the Sun Accounts ledger, with supporting reconciliations, to support the delivery of accurate and complete monthly management accounts to strict deadlines.
Analyse, calculate and prepare financial information, including detailed breakdowns of accrual, prepayment, deferred and accrued income balances, liaising with budget holders where necessary.
Maintain capex and balance sheet reconciliations and monitor supplier schedules of activity to ensure transactions are recognised correctly.
Support the preparation of financial forecasts and budgets, liaising with finance business partners and operational teams to provide accurate information.
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here
For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.