Finance business analyst

Finance Business Analyst | 50-55k + package | Kent
A driven, well-established business that continues to grow through both organic growth and acquisition, are looking to appoint a commercially focussed and date driven Finance Business Analyst. This is a newly created role to support new and more detailed reporting and analysis required by the business and will very much be a business facing role. With exciting projects coming up and a real opportunity to add value, this is a great role for someone commercial and data driven with the ability to create new reporting.

Key responsibilities to include:

Driving improvements across the companies around business reporting
Reviewing existing business processes with the directive of improving where appropriate
Assisting the management teams to bring value add activities to the business
Maximise potential of existing systems to ensure working as hard for businesses as possible
Work with the wider business to find ways to continually improve the production of meaningful management information
Working closely with IT department to implement projects assisting in improvements across the business
Help drive SAS database system to make it the reliable single source of finance information for the business
Being proactive and seeking ways to improve reporting systems and outputs
Work closely with functional teams to drive improvement process efficiencies
Developing relationships with the wider finance team and across all departments in the business
Provide value added analysis relevant to performance and business objectives which support and enhance management decision making
Developing relationships with the wider finance team and across all departments in the business
Undertake adhoc projects as required.

Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or qualified by experience
Able to manage large data sets and to assimilate into analysis for senior management
Able to build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders
Good interpersonal skills with an ability to liaise with other Finance team members as well as operational and commercial colleagues.
Proactively seek solutions to problems and constantly look for opportunities to improve the control environment and therefore the service delivered by the finance function.
To work in a flexible manner to respond to objectives of the Finance team.