Senior Financial Analyst
- Full time
- Leeds
- Finance
Circa £50,000
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Are you a talented finance professional with the ability to develop and maintain financial planning, budgeting and forecasting models? Are you comfortable dealing with large data sets and extracting key commercial insights?
If your answer is 'yes' to all of these, keep reading.
Want to know a little about us?
At Novuna Consumer Finance, we provide fast, flexible finance solutions for some of the UK's biggest retail brands. Whether customers are buying furniture for their new home, an important piece of jewellery, or home electrical goods, we're passionate about delivering phenomenal customer experiences.
We're proud to be a Top 50 Inclusive employer. We're a signatory of the Women in Finance and the Race at Work Charter and we're Disability Confident Committed.
What does the role involve?
Working as part of the FP&A team within Novuna Consumer Finance, you will provide timely financial analysis and reporting activities to enable fully informed business decision making.
You will support the process to produce the annual Budget, Medium Term Plan and monthly Rolling Reforecasts utilising a multi-dimensional planning application.
You will support the FP&A team in continually improving processes, systems and controls to help facilitate the profitable growth of the business.
Some of your key duties will include:
- Key role in the maintenance, enhancement and development of multi-dimensional planning models (IBM Planning Analytics / Cognos)
- Provide supporting analysis, MI and commercial insight for senior management
- Responsible for Cost Centre reporting, analysing and explaining variances against budget and providing support/challenge to senior managers as appropriate
- Responsible for maintenance of the FTE forecasting models including alignment with cross departmental resourcing plans.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a talented financial professional (ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or with extensive experience) with a knowledge of budgeting and forecasting. You will be able to utilise our planning model (IBM Planning Analytics / Cognos) to maintain and enhance business reporting modules. You will be comfortable dealing with large data sets and be able to clearly and concisely extract commercial value using a variety of reporting methods.
Also, we're looking for the following:
- An ability to think operationally and strategically.
- An ability to make sound commercial business decisions.
- An ability to collaborate, challenge and influence senior colleagues.
- An ability to extract, analyse and report data efficiently and effectively.
- A proven appetite to explore new software technologies and ability to quickly learn new systems.
- A continuous improvement mindset.
What can we offer you?
At Novuna we take our people promise seriously. If you join us, you'll have a chance to make a difference, opportunities to learn, and time to shine.
In addition to a market-benchmarked salary and excellent bonus scheme, our offer to you includes:
- Company car or cash alternative – with fantastic EV incentives
- Flexible hybrid working
- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell 5 days
- Full wellbeing package including BUPA, digital GP service, 24/7 employee assistance, plus wellbeing events throughout the year
What's the next step?
Interested? Start your application today and see what Novuna can offer you.
Novuna has been named one of the top 50 most inclusive employers for the fourth year running and this is also reflected in our recruitment process. We are committed to ensuring our application process is inclusive and accessible to all candidates.
We're Disability Confident Committed, so if you're a person with a disability, if you're neurodivergent, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.
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