Finance Analyst

<p> City, Manchester<br /> Randstad Finance</p> <p>We are partnering with a market leading digital travel company in their search for a Finance Analyst within their Financial Planning & Analysis team. This role is based in Manchester, and will run for 3 months initially, offering hybrid working (1 day per week in the office) and a day rate of up to 358 per day via umbrella (or PAYE equivalent) for the right candidate.</p> <p>As the Finance Analyst, you will be responsible for:</p> <ul> <li>Creating variance analysis comparing performance of KPIs with agreed targets and budgets</li> <li>Support business decision making through exploring business questions using data analysis and visualisation</li> <li>Support the business by providing information and insight into past, current and potential future trading activities, highlighting opportunities and risks to improve business performance</li> <li>Support on rebates analysis – tracking performance, producing reconciliations, reporting to finance, producing scenario analysis to assist with profitability decisions</li> <li>Build & maintain regular reporting</li> <li>Develop efficient, automated reporting as requested by the business on an ad hoc basis</li> <li>Maintain key reports, metrics and workflows running within their scope</li> <li>Support the business planning processes by forecasting the relevant KPI performance</li> <li>Support on commercially focused projects, providing relevant insights, reporting and financial impact information</li> </ul> <p>This role could be right for you if you have:</p> <ul> <li>1-2 years of data processing experience (SQL, Hadoop, Excel etc.)</li> <li>2+ years experience within a financial analyst role for a large organisation</li> <li>Commercial experience using data visualisation skills (Power BI, Tableau, Excel etc.)</li> <li>Ability to effectively develop strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business</li> </ul> <p>Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003</p>

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