Senior Financial Analyst London, England
Job description
Senior Finance Analyst: This is a 12 months FTC Maternity cover
We are Indeed Flex. We Help People Get Jobs. Right now, we’re hiring!
The current staffing model is broken, with low wages and limited opportunities. As flexible work continues to grow, we’re taking a radically different approach: providing job seekers with control, ownership and choice, so employees can find the working patterns and scenarios to suit their lifestyles. In doing so, we aim to revolutionize the industry.
After demonstrating our approach throughout the UK under the Syft brand, we were acquired by Indeed.com in 2019 and we rebranded to Indeed Flex in 2020. With continued independence and phenomenal levels of support we’ve been able to accelerate our mission as we expand throughout the US as well as the UK. Fast growth creates tremendous opportunities - come and join a team of inquisitive, passionate, and driven individuals helping each other grow and building something meaningful!
About the role
The Finance team’s vision is to provide a scalable financial platform that records accurate transactions to provide a best in class experience for our key stakeholders. As part of the Indeed Flex Finance team, you will develop and maintain revenue, margin and expenditure forecasts and budgets while also providing key management reporting on company performance and how this is aligned with the year's objectives. This is a truly commercial role to partner with various stakeholders to interpret and analyse financial performance and offer recommendations on how to drive value using your influencing skills.
Requirements
- Support and challenge key Business Partners and Stakeholders in delivering business strategy through the provision of insightful financial analysis, data and trends
- Develop robust financial forecasting, business planning, models and performance analysis tools that allow management to make informed data driven decisions which drive improved performance
- Play a key role in the delivery of the annual Budgets, supporting Business Partners in the preparation of their annual revenue forecasts and cost plans
- Support and challenge budget owners through periodic review meetings to ensure delivery and control of their budget and efficiency savings initiatives
- Ownership of the FP&A data management, processes and systems
- Provide support in the preparation of timely and accurate monthly management accounts, as well as submission of month end packs to Senior Management and key Business Stakeholders
- Participate in the monthly review of results with the senior finance team, identifying and discussing key drivers of variances to plans, including revenue, margin and costs
- KPI reporting across various areas of the business on a weekly and monthly basis.
- Drive the continuous evolution of reporting and forecasting to support decision making and to drive an overall improvement in performance
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within your immediate team and supporting projects across the business
Qualifications and Skills
- Proven work experience as a Financial Analyst with commercial focus
- Willing and able to perform in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial business
- Strong analytical skills as well as experience in building complex financial models; proficiency in MS Excel and Google Sheets
- Solid change management skills and able to build things from scratch
- Self-starter who is always enthusiastic, curious, self-motivated and looking for opportunities to improve and experiment
- Demonstrated strong problem solving, data management and visualisation skills
- Structured thinker, ability to make complex things simple and analyse data from multiple different sources
- Willingness to question the validity, accuracy of data and assumptions
- Detail minded and confidentiality in handling sensitive financial information
- Strong understanding of business processes and data flows and the impact they have on financial results
- Great stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Excellent presentation and communication skills - able to articulate results clearly and concisely to a wide range of stakeholders
Benefits
- FTC 12 months Maternity cover
- £60,000 - £70,000 per annum
- 25 days holiday
- Hybrid/Flexible working model (Monday & Friday at Farringdon Indeed Office)
- Private Healthcare & Dental Plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Day off on your birthday
- Regular team building events
- Perkbox - discounts and goodies on some of your favourite brands
You’ll fit right in at Indeed Flex if:
- You’re a great communicator and highly collaborative. We’re best when we all pull in the same direction
- You don’t mind doing the work, whatever it is - you can see the impact at the end and you’re in it for the long haul
- Data is your heart and soul - you know you need it to drive you in the right direction
- You’re proactive and always willing to learn
- You can navigate the ambiguity and high levels of autonomy in a scale up environment - you know what we’re about and you want to be a part of it
