Financial / Business Analyst

Financial / Business Analyst - Construction

Company Background

Our B2B client enjoys a well-deserved premium reputation as a leader in their profitable product-based sector. They are an established group that continues to grow at pace. Due to this continuing rapid growth, Richard Lloyd has been engaged to recruit a Financial / Business Analyst for their high-performing finance team.

Reporting to a talented and experienced Head of Finance who thrives on watching her team develop, you will have the opportunity to grow both your skillset and career.

This multi-faceted Financial / Business Analyst role will see you working in a collaborative and high-performance team. You will quickly become a key partner to multiple stakeholders and ensure the delivery of your responsibilities across a $400m division.

Boasting a flexible working environment, once you are comfortable in the role, you can work from home two days per week.

Working as part of a collaborative team, this is a company with a great culture that prides itself on being fast-paced and nimble, providing a competitive advantage over its main competitors.

The Role

Your role as the Financial / Business Analyst will play a key position in the team for this sizeable division. In this appealingly broad-based role, your core remit will include (yet certainly not be limited to):

• Engaging with the multiple stakeholders across your division and wider organisation (both finance and non-finance)
• Provide both financial and commercial support to your partners
• Development of dashboards
• Financial performance analysis
• Variance analysis and identifying trends and business drivers
• Continuous development and implementation of business reporting, systems and processes
• Deliver commercial and analytical support to Operations to facilitate profitable and sustainable growth
• Play a key role in the integration of newly acquired businesses
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process
• Maintain weekly cash flow forecasting tools
• Lead or be involved in key process and reporting improvement projects

Your Background

To be considered for this Financial / Business Analyst role, you will be a qualified Accountant (e.g. CA / CPA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) and should meet the following criteria:

• Experience working within a relevant/relatable product-based industry such as FMCG, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, distribution, etc..
• Solid accounting grounding coupled with more recent analytical, FP&A, or management accounting-flavoured experience
• Budgeting, forecasting and reporting knowledge
• IT literate - intermediate to advanced Excel, coupled with experience working with Power BI, will be held in high regard (Power BI not a pre-requisite)
• Examples of ‘commercial nous’ and being involved in process improvement projects. The ability to overcome problems, find solutions and demonstrate initiative / proactivity
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

If you are keen to find out more about this Financial / Business Analyst position, please contact David Landau at Richard Lloyd on 02 8324 5641, quoting reference 9481 or click on 'apply now' below.

Please submit your CV in Word format and note that due to the high volume of responses we receive only suitable candidates will be contacted.