Senior Financial Analyst

A quick look at the role

A fantastic opportunity to join the Municipal Collections Finance team as an SFA, supporting the business through delivering accurate financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and analysis enabling informed business decision-making. The role will develop strong technical and commercial finance skills through business partnering with operational stakeholders, maintaining robust financial controls, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance financial and operational performance.  This role will be a key support in the regional leadership team attending team meetings. 

Your core responsibilities

• Support the RGMs to deliver budget and forecast for the year through period end and mid-month
• Be part of RGMs leadership team and join all team meetings and have regular 121s with RGMs.
• Posting of all journals above gross margin (proactively correcting source data to reduce journal adjustment requirements)
• Lead conversations with central team to ensure accuracy of their journal submission and understand variances for own regions
• Preparation of monthly management accounts, including variance analyses and bridges
• Monthly meetings with the business on reasons for variances. Proactively use KPI data to inform variances, challenge the business and agree actions and next steps. Ensure methods to follow up actions and track in subsequ