Senior Financial Analyst

Your new company
This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing, friendly finance team based at a long-established organisation in Oxford. The purpose of the role is to provide maternity cover over the next 12 months, including handover, and so a start date before the end of April is required.

Your new role

• Deliver accurate month-end and year-end accounting, reconciliations and financial reports, ensuring compliance with policies, regulations and audit requirements.
• Provide clear financial guidance to stakeholders, resolving accounting queries and explaining financial impacts across projects, staffing, procurement and licencing.
• Build strong working relationships with service and project managers, offering expert advice on costing, pricing, KPIs, budgeting, forecasting and financial performance.
• Develop a deep understanding of services and projects to identify risks, opportunities, cost drivers and value for money improvements.
• Produce timely financial reporting and analysis, highlighting variances, trends, risks and opportunities, and escalating material issues where necessary.
• Support project life cycles by reviewing business cases, assessing financial benefits, monitoring delivery, ensuring accurate capital/revenue treatment and challenging financial assumptions where appropriate.
• Lead the development of short-term and long-term forecasts for both General Ledger and project portfolios, identifying risks and improving planning tools and processes.
• Maintain pricing models and support the development of pricing structures and policies aligned with departmental objectives.
• Line manage and develop a Financial Analyst, promoting best practice, collaboration and continuous improvement across the finance team.
• Oversee accurate delivery of day-to-day transactional work and contribute to wider finance initiatives, system testing and process improvements.
• Provide financial input into HR business cases, participate in PDR processes and undertake training as required.
• Respond promptly to issues, provide ad-hoc financial information when needed, and carry out additional duties appropriate to the role.

What you'll need to succeed

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA) with experience in large, complex finance environments.
• Strong track record in management accounting, planning, pricing, reporting and business partnering.
• Excellent analytical capability with a consistent focus on accuracy and high quality output.
• Skilled at translating financial information, processes and terminology for non-financial audiences.
• Proven ability to build effective, trusted relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Highly organised and able to coordinate multiple priorities while consistently meeting deadlines.
• Strong technical skills, including advanced Excel (pivot tables, complex formulas) and a good understanding of financial systems. Experience with Power BI is an advantage.

What you'll get in return

• £53,000-£58,000 salary
• Generous public sector pension
• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Extensive array of benefits encompassing discounts, family benefits, welfare, access to gyms and much more
• Flexible working policy

What you need to do now
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