Senior Communications Advisor at Collabria Financial developing internal and external communications strategies. Managing projects, digital presence, and strengthening brand partnerships.
About the role
- Senior Financial Analyst at Pearson analyzing financial planning for Virtual Schools. Collaborating with various teams for accurate reporting and decision-making in finance.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the delivery of subdivisional P&L reporting and analysis for the business
- Review products & projects to ensure accounting is in line with policies
- Request accrual or other accounting adjustments that are judgement based
- Provides analysis to support decision-making, including presenting economic outcomes, identifying the key value drivers, benefits, sensitivities and risks, accounting, and fiscal implications.
- Prepares and analyses problems using sensitivity analysis and other techniques; reviews variance analyses and account reconciliations and identifies significant items requiring the attention of higher-level management.
- Applies various techniques such as target costing, value analysis, life cycle and discuss implications.
- Prepares analysis and reports that enable the business management to effectively challenge costs and inform decision-making.
- Participates in waste elimination efforts with the business to understand key drivers and cost reduction opportunities.
- Assures the analysis and planning beyond the scope of capital spending to the wider expenditure (R&D, marketing, talent, etc.).
- Communicates investment analysis criteria to non-finance professionals in a clear and concise manner to support decision making in resource that drives revenue growth.
- Supports planning processes, including setting targets, communicating assumptions, coordinating budget preparation, challenging submissions, and seeking synergies upon consolidation.
- Provides the business with relevant financial support to enable effective planning while applying sensible budgeting and forecasting techniques.
- Provides reasoned advice on modelling, planning, and forecasting with reference to cost, time and quality which incorporate the organization strategic direction.
- Monitors the finance progress against leadership team strategic goals and identifies bottlenecks to progress, identifying potential solutions, providing advice and escalating as needed to ensure goals are achieved
Requirements
- 5 years minimum experience in a Financial Planning and Analysis role
- Strong accounting knowledge with experience in project accounting– holding a recognized professional accountancy qualification (consideration will be given to candidates without a qualification who can demonstrate they meet the other experience requirements)
- Excellent understanding of materiality and ability to prioritize across competing demands
- Experience of finance ERP systems (Oracle preferred but not essential)
- Experience with predictive modeling & data visualization tools (i.e., Alteryx and Tableau) is a plus.
- Understanding of financial control, business performance management and process optimization and experience of working in more than one of these areas
- Advanced user of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel (v-lookups, sum-ifs, pivot tables etc.)
- High commitment to quality to ensure reports are prepared accurately first time
- A self-starter who is motivated to work under own initiative demonstrating initiative and sound judgement.
- Ability to work as part of a wider management team, identifying and providing support to colleagues
- Ability to work to strict deadlines and to be able to prioritize to meet those deadlines
- Experience working in a multi-national matrix organization
- Experience transitioning finance activities between locations/groups.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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