Job Description

Understand and analyze financial trading performance to inform future forecasts and actions to improve. Lead and develop the capability of a team of 3-4 analysts to forecast and analyze financial performance. Develop the processes, models and files used to report, review and forecast business performance.
Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing absolute clarity on trading performance, underlying drivers, and potential corrective actions
• Lead the process of engaging with functional leaders to review the financial performance of their teams and forecast trading performance, people, and costs
• Review with the management accounts team to challenge and manage the result during their month-end close process
• Refine processes for reporting and creation of key outputs including Board Slides, KPIs, trading performance reviews, cost centre business partnering
• Improve forecasting model structure, logic, compliance and integration with upload processes

In return we can offer:

• Competitive salary with a whole host of excellent benefits and bonus
• 3 full training days from a wide range of courses
• Continuous personal development
• 2 days off for charity work
• Work for a company that promotes Wellbeing (Mindfulness classes, fitness classes, wellbeing campaigns throughout the year with QA's approved listeners)
• Hybrid working

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Solid problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate results, insights, and recommendations effectively to various levels of seniority – in both written and verbal communications
• Able to work effectively on own initiative, and within small to large project environments
  Extracted, manipulated, and visualized data for reporting and ad hoc analysis (Excel)
• Forecasting and planning for a significant sized business with multiple product lines / divisions
• Preparing information for board level
• Knowledge of Training industry is desirable but by no means essential
• Knowledge of best practice in FP&A business partnering and process
• Fully qualified ACA, CIMA, ACCA