Finance Analyst London, England
Job description
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: We’re open to flexible working hours we’re looking for full time, but happy to discuss flexible start/finish times, just let us know on your application
Location: Our team can work flexibly from home or the office, balancing the working day with personal commitments, whether that’s personal wellbeing, childcare or interests. Our team is spread between our offices in London, Gloucester, Exeter and Plymouth therefore this role involves some travel across these offices when required.
Closing date: Wednesday 26th April 2023
Salary: Starting from £36,000 + excellent benefits
The Enterprise IT Finance Analyst will be accountable to the Enterprise IT Finance Lead for all Enterprise IT operating budget management, commercial and finance reporting. You will advise the Finance Lead to ensure all EIT operational spend, is in line with MTP budget and critically, has responsibility to manage and account for all variances providing an appropriate level of challenge and fit for purpose financial data back to the respective business units and our own teams.
The opportunity…
As the Finance Analyst, you will manage the day to day aspects of all Shared Services Agreements (SSA) to ensure complete recovery of costs into EIT. There will be a requirement for the preparation of reports, and financial summary information for the regular EIT to Business finance meetings.
The value of existing SSA’s is expected to rise. Where new agreements are required, the Finance lead will recommend the contents with the Finance Analyst responsible for the pricing and detailed summary of the services within. You will also be a first point of contact for any questions, queries and requests for information via Business finance teams.
As part of the Finance team, you will prioritise and plan your workload in line with business needs and criticality, priorities will be agreed between yourself and the Finance lead. The production of quality financial reporting, employing the necessary rigour, innovation and setting of standards to support the delivery of the Medium Term Plan (MTP) is critical to the success of the Commercial Team and EIT. You will be expected to contribute to the achieving any budgetary expectations in terms of demonstrating best value and also savings where needed.
What we’re looking for…
Significant gravitas, influencing, negotiating and communication skills;- Knowledge of SAP and Excel
- A broad understanding of IT technology (particularly infrastructure) with interest in maintaining that awareness;
- Ability to articulate commercially focused outcome based results;
- Understanding of common financial practices
- Understanding of commercial and contractual agreements between EDF Energy and its IT service partners or previous experience in an equivalent environment;
- Proven ability to build strong relationships with customers, staff and colleagues, external third parties and other key stakeholders based on partnerships;
- Demonstrable record of contributing effectively to a business.
For more information about this role, please contact [email protected]
Our culture…
Rachael Thomas, Finance Analyst says: “The Commercial team is a very supportive and dynamic team; covering aspects of monthly Management Accounting, Corporate Recharging, Vendor Management & Cloud based costing analysis FinOps & Software Asset Management. It’s a collaborative team and everyone is happy to help and support each other. We work from home for the majority of time giving us flexibility and a good work life balance.”
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity, inclusion.
We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re an equal opportunity and disability confident employer. If you feel comfortable sharing with us that you have a disability, you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we will guarantee you an interview.
We’ll value the difference you bring and give you opportunities to thrive and succeed and to feel you belong.
Our benefits…
- Potential to earn 5% bonus
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with five years service up to a maximum of 30 days)
- A defined contribution pension scheme
- Retail discounts and cashback deals
- Healthcare cash plan
- Technology benefits
- Government tax-free childcare
- Additional annual leave
- Dental insurance
- Gym membership
- Critical illness insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Travel insurance
- Car breakdown cover
- Dining card
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