Job description
Job title: Regional Business Analyst
Location: London or Epsom
Hours: Full time, Monday – Friday
Salary: £60,000pa dependent on experience
Qualifications required:
- Formal accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA etc)
- At least three years demonstrable experience of working in a dynamic multi-site organisation
Through our family of leading brands, the UK&I Homecare division of Sodexo provides care and support to thousands of individuals each year in their own homes. This care is often paid for privately but may also be funded by the state.
Our Businesses in the UK&I
We operate three main businesses in the region: The Good Care Group, Prestige Nursing & Care and Comfort Keepers. Each business serves a unique segment of the market.
The Good Care Group
The Good Care Group was founded in the UK in 2009 with a vision of becoming the leading provider of high-quality live-in care services that enable people to continue to live comfortably in their homes. The Good Care Group has a five-star outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Oxford Aunts
Subsidiary company Oxford Aunts was founded in 1967 with the aim of providing good quality home services to those in the local area. In 1984, Oxford Aunts launched the live-in care service for which it is now renowned, providing families with a real alternative to a care home.
Prestige Nursing & Care
For over 75 years Prestige Nursing & Care has been trusted by clients and their families to provide competent and compassionate home care. The company cares for babies and children that require specialist paediatric care, adults living with life-altering and complex conditions, through to older people, and couples who need care and support with daily living.
Prestige’s short visit domiciliary care service is focused on improving health and overall well-being, all in the safety and comfort of the place people love most their own home. Prestige also operates a staffing business providing carers and nurses to care homes, schools and hospitals.
Comfort Keepers
For more than 15 years, Comfort Keepers Ireland has provided a short visit domiciliary care service. The service cares for people of all ages with a disability as well of older people who just need a little extra help to look after themselves throughout the Republic of Ireland.
Role Summary
This is a new role reporting directly to the Homecare Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the UK & Ireland.
The Regional Business Analyst will support the CFO and regional management team by providing financial and business analysis across the region.
The Regional Business Analyst will be expected to work with the CFO to coordinate the business planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting process across the region and provide analysis and actionable insights on a wide range financial and non-financial issues.
- The role at time will be time pressured, as we operate to short reporting timeframes, so self-motivation and good organisational skills will be required.
- Adherence to Group Reporting Deadlines. Timescales are short but the collation of data can be quite cumbersome until more efficient processes are implemented.
- Adherence to External regulator deadlines and requirements. The governing regulators in the UK market operate to strict frameworks and it is imperative that the Homecare business reports and delivers information requests to the standard required.
The Regional Business Analyst will work closely with colleagues in each of the businesses as well as colleagues in the regional and global Homecare teams, and the wider Sodexo organisation to:
- Coordinate management and financial reporting across the region
- Provide accurate and timely management information to the regional management team.
- Develop KPIs and dashboards to monitor financial and non-financial performance of the businesses.
- Identify trends and provide meaningful insight and analysis to help decision making and drive growth.
- Work with other members of the regional management team on ad hoc projects including new systems implementations (new regional HR, payroll and ledger systems are planned for 2023/24).
Accountabilities
- Timely production of management reports
- Accuracy of management reporting
- Provision of data that supports the business strategic actions.
Person Specification
Qualifications:
- Formal accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA etc)
- At least three years demonstrable experience of working in a dynamic multi-site organisation
Personal Qualities:
- Confident and candid, with humility
- Questioning, curious and innovative
- High levels of energy, drive and resilience
- Team player with a strong sense of urgency and personal commitment
- Excellent communication skills to interact and collaborate with colleagues at all levels of the organisation
Analytical Skills:
- Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to analyse and derive actionable insights from complex (and often incomplete) data sets.
- Attention to accuracy and detail required.
IT Skills:
- Excellent Microsoft skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, SQL Server)
- Excel skills should include advanced formulas and functions, pivot tables and reporting, macros / VBA)
- PowerBI skills should include (import and transform data, link and add calculated columns and measures to tables, build and publish dashboards)
- The ability to understand / write SQL scripts with multiple joins across stables would be an advantage.
- Willingness to learn new software and skills.
Please Note:
Sodexo reserves the right to close this role early.