Job description

MacKenzie King are excited to be recruiting a Finance Analyst to join an international company that are a leader in their field. As a Finance Analyst you will manage accruals and reconciliations through strong communication skills and proactive risk management. The ideal candidate will be an organised and adaptable individual, with a problem-solving mentality, that can manage large volumes of data, work to different processing schedules and can represent the business in answering related queries.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the basic accounting concepts of revenue recognition and matching are adhered to.
• Calculating monthly accruals and regular statements for aspects across Europe.
• Carry out monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Process invoices, payments, and calculations in a timely & accurate manner.
• Monitor advanced payments to ensure they will be fully recouped in the contract term. Flag any risk early, ensuring that any balance sheet positions can be always supported.
• Work in partnership with your Manager to ensure contracts are understood by the relevant stakeholders, and that systems data is maintained. Provide a professional response to queries from external parties on contracts and payments.
• Assist heavily with Audits
• Work with teams across Europe to understand future income streams, with regular budget meetings and appraisal of performance, timings, phasing, and balance of year commitments.
• Support the FP&A Manager & Financial Controller in the annual budgeting processing, taking a lead role in modelling the impact on sales budgets.
• Support the FP&A Manager on the production of rolling forecasts for P&L, BS & Cashflow, building out from our existing model into a model that is fit for multi-user input, strengthening integrity and accuracy of data.
• Work with the Financial Controller to continually highlight control weaknesses and resolution by either process improvements or technical development, with a particular focus on dataflow through the ERP from capture to processing, storing and output.

Key Skills & Attributes:

• AAT Qualified
• 1-2 years’ experience working as part of a Finance function with involvement in calculating accruals, cashflow forecasting activities and carrying our balance sheet reconciliations
• Able to identify and implement improvements to systems and processes
• Experience in a “front-facing” role where you represented the business to external parties, answering queries and providing an explanation of processes (for example, customers, auditors)
• Proactive and effective communicator, adapting communication approach to enable effective collaboration and relationship building with both internal and external stakeholders
• Organising, maintaining, and analysing high volumes of transactional data
• Takes a methodical and holistic approach to data analysis, engaging with a variety of stakeholders to highlight the current risks and opportunities of the situation
• Intermediate Excel; pivot tables, sumif, indexmatch, vlook-up etc
• Organising data across a wide range of systems

This is a great opportunity for a dynamic individual with an analytical approach and strong communication skills to undertake a varied role within an industry leading business. To find out more about this opportunity please get in touch with Stephanie at MacKenzie King.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £32,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 887250