Outstanding opportunity for a newly qualified accountant looking to develop their commercial finance skills within a high growth environment.
A leading insurer based in Manchester city centre are on the look out for a newly qualified accountant to join the business as an FP&A accountant. The business have recently been acquired by a larger group and are in an outstanding position financially.
The role will take on responsibility for the consolidation of several of their retail subsidiaries and will involve budgeting and forecasting across these entities, working closely with the senior finance business partner and senior stakeholders.
As an FP&A accountant your responsibilities will be as follows:
- Support the budgeting and planning process for the Group including quarterly outlooks, budget and R&O processes. This will include collation of all business unit financials;
- Produce high quality output to support forecasting/month end, taking business unit level detail and summarising into a single report;
- Ensure financial results are clearly communicated including preparation of monthly reporting;
- Ensure consistent standards in terms of process and reporting quality and work collaboratively across the Finance team;
- Manage group requests, working with all relevant stakeholders;
- Make use of and constantly improve standard of modelling and use of systems.
- Seek to deliver outstanding and consistent customer service across all Business Areas, providing relevant analysis to ensure decision making is underpinned by quality information;
- Support wider business areas with ad hoc projects to provide greater insight into performance;
- Build strong relationships across the Business Areas to become a trusted business partner;
- Drive accountability, delivery of business targets & identify opportunities for additional value.
Key requirements:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
- Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills
- Finance business partnering experience
- Financial planning experience
This role would be well suited to either a finance analyst or a big four trained accountant looking for their first industry based role. The company can offer excellent flexibility and offer a fully hybrid working arrangement allowing you to manager your time between remote working and office based.
