Senior Finance Planning Analyst

Activate Group

  • United Kingdom
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 8 days ago
Job title: Senior Finance Planning AnalystDepartment: FinanceLocation: Home basedHours: 37.5 hours per weekSalary: CompetitiveWe're looking for a Senior Finance Planning Analyst to be part of our success story.**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.About the roleAs a Finance Planning Analyst you will be responsible for providing financial support to the Group by driving strategic and operational business initiatives through insightful analysis.Key responsibilities
  • Manage financial planning, budgeting and forecasting along with creating variance analysis reports and financial models.
  • Delivery of KPI performance reports and a rolling reforecast with accompanying commentaries providing value-adding analysis and insight
  • Development of a robust, end-to-end budgeting/forecasting process in collaboration with the Management Accountants
  • Coordination of annual business plan and budget cycle.
  • Preparation of quarterly performance packs.
  • Support the Senior Leadership Team with the production of a strategic plan ensuring the financial metrics reflect AGL's strategy.
  • Proactive identification of areas for operational and/or financial performance improvement
  • Support in the delivery of an annual business plan and subsequent reforecasts as required
  • Oversight of cost management and reporting processes
  • Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
  • Ad-hoc projects as and when required by the board
Skills and experience
  • Strong existing FPA/Project finance/finance analyst
  • Strong excel and project modelling skills
  • Commercial and sales support focused
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, demanding environment
Benefits
  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
  • Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
  • Life assurance: three times basic salary
  • Free breakfasts and fruit
  • Birthday surprise for everybody!
What you can expect from usAt Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.A bit about usNamed by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:Purpose: Make someone's bad day betterValues:
  • Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
  • Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
  • Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.

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