Finance Commercial Analyst

This role will report into the Finance Business Partner for the Commercial Division. The key focus will be on supporting Department Heads and Office Managers; reporting actual performance, budgeting, forecasting and ad-hoc queries. The role is of paramount importance in providing a link between the fee earning business and the central accounts team.

Client Details

My client is the UK's leading independent property consultancy offering agency and professional advice across Commercial and Residential sectors.

Description

Responsibilities:

• Key point of contact within the accounts department for defined areas of the fee-earning business
• Reporting on monthly performance at department and service line levels
• Identifying areas of outlying performance and monitoring trends on an ongoing basis
• Reporting on pipeline activity/WIP
• Business planning support to fee-earning and other business services departments, such as Human Resources, in preparation of financial budgets and regular reforecasts
• Responsibility for various departments in the long range plan process
• Actioning ad-hoc business queries and requests for analysis, including staffing, discretionary cost areas, other overheads, viability studies for new business opportunities etc.
• Acting as Finance representative for specific projects/committees, including presenting financial updates
• Attending sub-divisional head / board meetings as required
• Working closely with management accounts team, providing information for monthly postings
• Calculating and appraising cross business cost allocations
• Training for Department Heads and Office Managers on reporting tools
• Other tasks to support the accounts/commercial division as required

Profile

Key skills:

• Relevant degree/postgraduate qualification in business, accounting, economics
• Demonstrable experience in financial analysis and planning
• Advanced excel and data modelling skills
• Experience of SAP, BPC and Business Objects preferable
• Aptitude to learn new systems quickly and explain them to others
• Excellent communication skills - ability to distil financial and non-financial data into a clear message for staff at all levels within the firm
• Capability to build strong working relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues across the business
• Ability to grasp situations quickly and work well both alone and as part of a team
• High degree of flexibility and capacity to work to defined timescales at key times in the financial year
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure

Job Offer

Up to £43,000 + full study support + bonus + comprehensive benefits package