Finance Analyst

at  Centrica

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Working within our Services team the Boiler Installations Finance Analyst Role is a high impact role offering development in FP&A and Business Partnering skills through working closely with business teams including Planning and Performance Management teams. The role provides a great opportunity to get to know our business and to add value and insight to the overall forecasting and reporting of business performance. It will require close working with the other Finance Partners, Financial Control as well as building strong relationships with operational stakeholders.
The key skills will be robust reporting and analysis, planning and forecasting combined with great interpersonal skills and a desire to understand what we do and make a difference.

Accountabilities

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in the business and across finance
• Develop understanding of business strategy and its translation into financial impacts
• Develop understanding of key drivers of profit, risks, and opportunities, and be able to translate commercial & business performance into financial impact to the whole P&L
• Provide robust insight and analysis to drive improvements in financial performance
• Support finance transformation activity through delivery of improvements in forecasting and reporting
• Produce standard finance deliverables to the agreed timeline and quality, supported by clear and focused explanations and messaging
• Regularly report performance against plans and forecasts, supporting business review of financial and operational variances to identify corrective actions
• Support delivery of accurate, efficient, and transparent financial plans and forecasts
• Carry out non-standard / bespoke analysis to support business decision making and identify performance improvement interventions

Experience

• Recognised accountancy qualification or passed finalist
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to pro-actively develop positive and highly effective working relationships
• Motivated by continuous improvement and delivering high quality outputs
• Ability to identify a problem and think through an approach to develop a solution
• Experience of providing commercial analysis and evaluation in a financial planning and analysis or business partnering role
• Strong IT skills (e.g. SAP, Excel, Power BI)
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to summarise complex data and matters and communicate effectively
• An interest in automation and use of new tools to analyse data and streamline processes
• Capable of managing multiple tasks in a high-pressure environment and working to tight deadlines
• Ability to identify, assess and analyse organisation wide operational risks and controls

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required

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