Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst – EXPIRED

An excellent opportunity has arisen within the Financial Planning & Analysis function for a highly analytical professional with the ability to solve complex problems to join our team at Hodge.

As an FP&A analyst, you will be reporting into the FP&A Manager, responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that supports relevant business channels and informs the decision making of senior stakeholders.

You will be responsible for:

• Working closely with the FP&A manager and finance business partner to deliver the budget, strategy, monthly rolling forecasts and other regular reports.
• Ownership of all FP&A models and processes ensuring accuracy at all times.
• Driving efficiencies in models whilst ensuring model governance is always met.
• Curiosity and desire to understand commercial drivers and the organisation as a whole.
• Preparing monthly and ad-hoc information packs and presentations to be shared at director and board level.
• Ability to bring numbers to life to non-finance professionals.
• Identifying key drivers and providing analysis on particular areas of risk and opportunity.
• Providing frequent ad-hoc analysis or model development as and when required.
• Supporting the business with analysis of financial information for strategic initiatives.
• Perform benchmarking to identify economic and business trends.
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Highly analytical
• An Excel expert
• Proactive
• A natural enquiring mind
• Attention to detail whilst being able to see the broader picture
• Ability to provide insightful written communication
• Excellent time management
• Financial modelling is desirable

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in finance/accounting
• Educated to degree level
• Previous financial services banking environment is desirable.