Imperial College London Hiring for Finance Analyst Job at South Kensington, England Full Time

Are you a reporting expert? Do you have experience in transforming reporting landscapes using PowerBI or other reporting solutions to create dashboards that inform decision making?

We are seeking to recruit two Finance Analysts within the Management Reporting team at Imperial College. These are high-profile roles that provides the successful applicants with a unique opportunity to understand how the finances of the College work and to work closely with key stakeholders across functions.

The team delivers financial management reports to both key external stakeholders and the College’s senior leadership team, ensuring these meet their needs and are produced in an efficient manner.

These roles are integral to the College’s monthly and annual reporting cycles. The successful candidates will be responsible for the provision of financial reports, analysis, and associated narrative to senior management to inform decision making and to drive forward improvements in our reporting environment.

A key part of the roles is to develop the quality of information in our systems by identifying and removing data weaknesses and process inefficiencies.

Duties and responsibilities

As Finance Analyst, you will:

• Responsible for delivering management information both internally and externally according to the College’s reporting cycle.
• Prepare analysis and reports that enable the business management to effectively challenge costs and inform decision-making
• Provide advice and guidance on the content of business performance reports and the causes of variances
• Work with College wide colleagues to gather data and evidence as required to support narrative descriptions.
• Identify data weaknesses and understand their source to assist in the development of improved control over the integrity of data.
• Work with stakeholders to proactively identify and address process improvement opportunities and improve the efficiency and automation of reporting processes.
• Presents information clearly and succinctly through commentary visuals, graphs, tables and other means to influence business partners and management effectively respond to impromptu questions and simplify complex information to ensure understanding.

The below responsibilities will depend on which Finance Analyst role you are appointed to (please refer to the Job descriptions for more information):

• Own and manage the student fee income recognition processes
• Own and manage the annual government TRAC returns
• Own and manage the month end Board packs
• Manage the process for calculating facility charge-out rates to be used when costing research proposals.
• Contribute to the Annual Report and Accounts by incorporating the in-year narrative reporting of the College’s performance into the Finance Review section.

Essential requirements

The successful candidate is likely to have:

• Accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
• Post qualification experience of variance, trend and financial analysis and narrative reporting
• Experience of Reporting solutions (Oracle, Essbase, Power BI, Other similar package)
• FRS 102 accounting standard knowledge
• Inquisitive nature who seeks to get to the right answer
• Data driven approach to problem resolution
• High proficiency in Excel and data manipulation
• Ability to critically appraise processes and reports and identify improvements
• Experience of advising and influencing senior internal stakeholders
• Drive and inquisitive nature to fully investigate variances and resolve any issues identified
• Strong interpersonal skills, including collaboration and relationship building
• Eye for detail and willing to take ownership for the quality of information presented
• Ability to write clear and insightful reports, able to present information clearly and concisely to achieve impact

Further information

Due to the nature of this role we will be shortlisting candidate as applications are received. We therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy as soon as a suitable candidate has been appointed. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Candidates are required to complete an online application.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact Dave Poulter at Reed – [email protected] or on 0330 912 0875.

Documents

• Financial Analyst- JD 1.pdf
• Financial Analyst- JD 2.pdf