Finance Analyst
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | 35000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | Bedford |
| Company: | Movianto |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1171 |
Summary
Job Advert
Are you a Finance Analyst and looking for a new role? Movianto Bedford is hiring.
You'll be working 37.5 hrs a week, Monday to Friday and will be paid upto £35,000 d.o.e.
Benefits
Onsite Gym at Bedford / discount PureGym memberships
Company Pension
Access to YourRewards platform
Cycle to work
Flu Vaccine
33days annual leave including Bank holidays
Health Assured – Employee Assistance
Simply Health – salary sacrifice
Purpose of the role:
We are seeking finance analyst to take responsibility for the client relationship and support with the reporting of the two
open-book contracts, Home Delivery Service (“HDS”) and Phoenix.
The role will be customer-facing and essential to ensuring the smooth running of the contract within the finance operation.
This role will support the Finance Business Partner and will involve working closely with the core finance and operations teams to
produce accurate, relevant and reliable financial information, including weekly / monthly reporting as well as forecasting and
budgeting.
There will also be a regular interaction with the client, to keep them informed of the performance of the account.
Key responsibilities:
* Partnering with the Operations team and Key Account Managers to assist with the production of weekly and monthly finance packs
for the client, including a variance analysis of actual costs versus budget;
* Present weekly and monthly finance packs for the Phoenix contract, running through the performance for the period;
* Assisting with the budgeting and forecasting for the contracts, ensuring deadlines are met in compliance with open-book
requirements;
* Assist finance business partners and other analysts with any adhoc analysis and business requests;
* Reporting of contractual KPIs to the client for both contracts;
* Use financial analysis to review costs and identify opportunities for cost optimisation and risk mitigation;
* Support central accounting team with month-end and year-end close;
* Collaborate with the Government Contracts team to identify areas of collaboration, support and opportunities to share
knowledge;
* Ad-hoc support to the wider finance team where required.
Experience/Skills required:
* Strong desire to learn, improve processes and challenge existing ways of working;
* Expertise with all MS Office applications, especially MS Excel;
* Able to communicate effectively and with confidence, with management and stakeholders across the business;
* Willingness to work and operate in a changing business environment;
* Ability to work independently and using own initiative;
* Strong analytical skills and the ability to use these skills to convey financial information to non-finance stakeholders;
* Open-book / cost-plus accounting experience advantageous;
* Understanding of the logistics sector advantageous.
Benefits
Onsite Gym at Bedford / discount PureGym memberships
Company Pension
Access to YourRewards platform
Cycle to work
Flu Vaccine
33days annual leave including Bank holidays
Health Assured – Employee Assistance
Simply Health – salary sacrifice
Movianto / Walden Group is an equal opportunity employer. All tasks must be carried out in compliance with the company and country
legislation and practices, health and safety at work and environment guidelines relevant to the market in which the role is
operational in. Please note the list above is not exhaustive and we expect the post holder to be flexible within the framework of
the job definition. Movianto / Walden Group seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital
/ civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin,
colour, sexual orientation or disability. Movianto / Walden Group apply all relevant Data Protection laws when processing your
Personal Data. If you choose to apply to this opportunity and share your CV or other personal information with Movianto/ Walden
Group, these details will be held by us in accordance with our privacy policy used by our team to contact you regarding this or
other relevant opportunities at Movianto/ Walden Group.
Are you a Finance Analyst and looking for a new role? Movianto Bedford is hiring.
You'll be working 37.5 hrs a week, Monday to Friday and will be paid upto £35,000 d.o.e.
Benefits
Onsite Gym at Bedford / discount PureGym memberships
Company Pension
Access to YourRewards platform
Cycle to work
Flu Vaccine
33days annual leave including Bank holidays
Health Assured – Employee Assistance
Simply Health – salary sacrifice
Purpose of the role:
We are seeking finance analyst to take responsibility for the client relationship and support with the reporting of the two
open-book contracts, Home Delivery Service (“HDS”) and Phoenix.
The role will be customer-facing and essential to ensuring the smooth running of the contract within the finance operation.
This role will support the Finance Business Partner and will involve working closely with the core finance and operations teams to
produce accurate, relevant and reliable financial information, including weekly / monthly reporting as well as forecasting and
budgeting.
There will also be a regular interaction with the client, to keep them informed of the performance of the account.
Key responsibilities:
* Partnering with the Operations team and Key Account Managers to assist with the production of weekly and monthly finance packs
for the client, including a variance analysis of actual costs versus budget;
* Present weekly and monthly finance packs for the Phoenix contract, running through the performance for the period;
* Assisting with the budgeting and forecasting for the contracts, ensuring deadlines are met in compliance with open-book
requirements;
* Assist finance business partners and other analysts with any adhoc analysis and business requests;
* Reporting of contractual KPIs to the client for both contracts;
* Use financial analysis to review costs and identify opportunities for cost optimisation and risk mitigation;
* Support central accounting team with month-end and year-end close;
* Collaborate with the Government Contracts team to identify areas of collaboration, support and opportunities to share
knowledge;
* Ad-hoc support to the wider finance team where required.
Experience/Skills required:
* Strong desire to learn, improve processes and challenge existing ways of working;
* Expertise with all MS Office applications, especially MS Excel;
* Able to communicate effectively and with confidence, with management and stakeholders across the business;
* Willingness to work and operate in a changing business environment;
* Ability to work independently and using own initiative;
* Strong analytical skills and the ability to use these skills to convey financial information to non-finance stakeholders;
* Open-book / cost-plus accounting experience advantageous;
* Understanding of the logistics sector advantageous.
Benefits
Onsite Gym at Bedford / discount PureGym memberships
Company Pension
Access to YourRewards platform
Cycle to work
Flu Vaccine
33days annual leave including Bank holidays
Health Assured – Employee Assistance
Simply Health – salary sacrifice
Movianto / Walden Group is an equal opportunity employer. All tasks must be carried out in compliance with the company and country
legislation and practices, health and safety at work and environment guidelines relevant to the market in which the role is
operational in. Please note the list above is not exhaustive and we expect the post holder to be flexible within the framework of
the job definition. Movianto / Walden Group seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital
/ civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin,
colour, sexual orientation or disability. Movianto / Walden Group apply all relevant Data Protection laws when processing your
Personal Data. If you choose to apply to this opportunity and share your CV or other personal information with Movianto/ Walden
Group, these details will be held by us in accordance with our privacy policy used by our team to contact you regarding this or
other relevant opportunities at Movianto/ Walden Group.