Business Analyst – Hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days in the office (Salford Quays)
Marlowe Fire & Security are the fastest growing fire & security business in the UK. From initial design, supply and installation, through to ongoing maintenance and monitoring, we maintain the capability to help prevent, detect and monitor Fire and Security risks for our customers up and down the country. We are currently looking to appoint a new Business Analyst based out of our Head Offices in Salford Quays. The role is based within the Service Admin department but will work closely with the Finance Department, providing reconciliation and data to support the management accounts and payroll entries.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Marlowe Fire & Security consider our people our greatest asset. All we ask is that every Team Member take pride in what they do and demonstrate commitment to delivering the highest level of service to both external and internal customers. Therefore, in addition to having all the usual attributes of a great Marlowe Fire & Security employee, such as; a positive attitude, excellent communication skills, well presented and professional at all times, ability to work alone and as part of a team….. For this specific opportunity, we are looking for candidates who offer:

• A proactive approach, excellent inter-personal skills and first-class presentational skills.
• Discreet and respect confidentialities.
• Highly numerate/analytical
• Flexible approach, able to pick up new work and one-off projects as they arise.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work in a team and on own initiative.
• Great attention to detail
• Detailed understanding of the use of operational and financial databases
• Advanced Office 365 skills – specifically Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to deal with high volumes of complex data
• ODBC / SQL skills – desired but not pre-requisite
• Knowledge of management accounts desirable but not essential
• SAGE 200 / CASH for Windows knowledge would be of advantage. Training in these applications will be provided

• Preparing, reviewing, and issuing routine daily/weekly/monthly reports with commentary to the leadership team of the business. Reports will include engineer revenue, productivity, travel, stock usage, compliance assessments.
• Reconciliation of the engineer revenue to the revenue as declared in the monthly accounts produced within Sage 200
• Production of weekly timesheet audit including review of high overtime
• Provide a link between service management and payroll to accurately sign off commissions/overtime/expenses
• Monthly verification of incentive scheme details
• Production of complete suite of anomaly reports identifying wastage and all significant sub-optimised business outcomes (penalties, credits, underspends, missing revenue…)
• Profitability analysis of sub-con labour usage – linking of cost to revenue
• Ensure that best use is being made of KPI data and company delivery performance against customer SLAs