Senior Commercial Finance Analyst (FP&A)

Advert Close date: Wednesday 21st May

Are you a dynamic and analytical finance professional looking to make a significant impact? Join our team as a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst and play a crucial role in shaping the financial future of our enterprise!

Purpose of Role:

As a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, you will support our FP&A team by providing insightful analysis and interpretation of enterprise performance for the Board and other stakeholders. Your forward-looking, driver-based financial forecasts will inform key decisions around business plans and capital allocation. You'll also be instrumental in identifying and implementing business efficiencies and improvements, particularly through automation and simplification.

Main accountabilities:

• Board and Committee Support: Assist in preparing papers and presentations, ensuring clear messaging and promoting meaningful conversations.
• Budget and Business Planning: Contribute to the annual budget and business planning process, providing insight and challenge on quarterly performance.
• Financial Modelling: Deliver financial modelling solutions for business planning and strategy updates, enabling flexible scenario analysis.
• Metrics Development: Develop and measure financial and operational metrics to support our evolving business model.
• Anaplan Expertise: Be a super-user and developer of our Anaplan budgeting and planning system, optimizing its analytic capabilities.
• Process Improvement: Streamline processes, improve efficiencies, and enhance reporting impact.
• Business Partnering: Act as a trusted Commercial Finance business partner, collaborating across functions to deliver desired outcomes.
• Ad Hoc Projects: Provide support for various projects as needed

What We're Looking For:

• Experience: Proven experience in financial report preparation, quantitative analysis, and producing visually impactful analytics.
• Skills: Exceptional Microsoft Excel skills, including complex financial model building. Solutions architect skillset is desirable.
• Capabilities: Clear communicator, able to present information logically and succinctly. Skilled in visualizing complex data and creating effective dashboards and infographics.
• Attributes: Commercially minded, dedicated, flexible, collaborative, and highly attentive to detail. Committed to learning and personal development with an analytical mindset and problem-solving aptitude.
• Qualifications: Qualified accountant with an excellent academic background.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge tools like Anaplan and be at the forefront of financial innovation.
• Collaborative Culture: Build trusting relationships with colleagues across various functions and business units.
• Career Growth: Opportunities for personal development and career advancement in a supportive environment.

If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role that will allow you to make a real difference, we want to hear from you!

Apply now to join our team and help drive our financial success!

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk