Finance Analyst
Oxford
Our client, with an international presence within manufacturing is seeking a Finance Analyst to join their growing and busy team.
This role is offered on a hybrid basis, you are able to predominantly work from home with visits to the office required once or twice a month when overseas staff are in the office, this could be 2-3 days at a time. There is also some ad-hoc overseas travel required from time to time.
Responsibilities:
Making valuable analysis or being able to identify issues and solve them to prevent risks (ex.: retrospective payments)
Analysing the revenue and cost of goods across the group's entities and reconcile them to the business
Gap analysis of the revenue and cost + balance sheet movements to manage any risks to the business
Providing any improvements in the calculation of cost of goods over entities to assure the accuracy of the margin (including consumption and inventory valuation)
Managing other finance topics in the group to help the lead BP, GM, and business stakeholders
Contribute to managing issues relating to Tax, Financials, prices, and deliveries in connection with BPs, Finance Share Services Centre (FSSC) and local teams
Supporting the budget and business forecast processes, making analysis accordingly
Providing data for the cash forecast to Finance Share Services Centre (FSSC)
Supporting the payroll process (reconciliations of data vs financial system)
Monitoring the update of unit and costs prices across the group's entities (mainly Sweden and UK)
Controlling the recharges of costs to suppliers (quality costs, inflation, or material price compensation to IC or external)
Required qualifications, experiences:
Good business and process controlling skills with valuable suggestions of improvement
Knowledge of any ERP and IT tools including Microsoft Office
Knowledge of accounting and analysis of financials from an ERP and business systems (BI.)
Knowledge of international accounting standards or any local GAAP standard
Very good inter-personal and verbal/written English communication skills
Very good Excel skills
Results focussed
Excellent trouble shooting & problem-solving skills
A good ability to work with teams in different countries remotely
A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Finance and Accounting
A minimum of 2 years of experience within a similar role, ideally within the manufacturing or logistics industry
Ability to travel in Europe (including UK)
An additional language would be of an advantage but not essential