Details:
- Salary: £47,000 - 50,000 - Annum
- Location: London
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
The Electoral Commission have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Analyst to join their team.
Location: London/ Remote
Salary: £47K- £50K depending on experience
Job Type: Full-time & Fixed Term Available (15 months)
Close Date: 26th of April 23:59
About Us:
The Electoral Commission is the independent body which oversees elections and regulates political finance in the UK. We work to promote public confidence in the democratic process and ensure its integrity. As one of two Senior Advisors for Procurement, you’ll provide strategic commercial and contract management insight and expertise.
Finance Analyst – The Role:
This is an exciting newly created role working as part of the Financial Planning team. In this role you will lead and develop planning, forecasting and budgeting models which feed into an integrated group reporting suite. You will design, implement and execute financial planning including 5-year plans, annual budget process and regular reforecast cycles and develop and maintain high quality financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives.
Other parts of the role entails assisting in the preparation of management reports, presentations, and ad-hoc analysis and developing both financial and non-financial performance indicators, highlighting trends and analysing variances to plan.
Finance Analyst – Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and execute financial planning including 5-year plans, annual budget process and regular reforecast cycles
- Develop and maintain high quality financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
- Assist in the preparation of management reports, presentations, and ad-hoc analysis
- Develop the Business Case template and review process
- Develop both financial and non-financial performance indicators, highlighting trends and analysing variances to plan
Finance Analyst – You:
Ideally, you will be a qualified accountant with working experience in a finance function of a medium sized to large organisation including involvement at a decision-making level in a full planning round. Part qualified candidates may be considered based on having relevant experience. You should have the following:
- it is essential that you hold a Chartered/Certified Accountant Qualification (Note we are not asking for grades or degree requirements however, in order to operate as a Finance Manager its required to be a qualified accountant)
- Previous knowledge and experience working with Public Sector Spending rules and accounting principles (desirable)
- Knowledge of investment appraisal techniques, preferably with experience applying the HM Treasury Green Book (desirable)
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with individuals at all levels
- Ability to build and maintain working relationships with key internal colleagues, other governmental departments (HMT, NAO, etc.), and external bodies
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with experience in budgeting and forecasting modelling
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral
- Excellent numerical reasoning skills and attention to detail
Finance Analyst – Benefits:
- Benenden Health Care services (health care provision for all staff from day 1 of employment. Services include 24-hour GP access, support services and more)
- Civil Service Pension Scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan (after 2 months service)
- Generous holiday entitlement of 27.5 days (full time employee) plus public holidays, rising with length of service to 30 days
- Enhanced Family Friendly provisions (for maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, and adoption)
- Flexible, hybrid working (2 days per week in one of our offices)
- Cycle to Work Scheme (salary sacrifice scheme)
- Reward voucher schemes (via nomination)
Application Process:
Closing date for applications is Friday 26th April 2024 at 23:59. Interviews will be held w/c Monday 6th May 2024 .
To submit your application for this exciting Finance Analyst opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now