Orka Financial Hiring for Junior Finance Analyst Job at United Kingdom Full Time

Orka Financial is working with a popular FMCG business to recruit a Junior Finance Analyst. This role will be based in their offices near Heathrow and as a business they offer good work from home flexibility with a 60/40 split between the office/home. They also operate flexi hours where the employee would work core hours of 10am-4pm but has the flexibility for start and finish times around that.

This business has been growing significantly over the last few years and we have placed a number of people within the finance team there and the feedback has been fantastic. This is a great opportunity to join a high performing commercial finance team in a role that will offer excellent progression possibilities for the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

• Challenge the existing pricing processes and add insight to develop a more efficient process
• Preparation and first review of Net Net Pricing files.
• Review GP of pricing for loading and escalate to Finance analysts where appropriate
• Review and communicate pricing claims to the business and work collaboratively with Finance/Sales to how these can be reduced.
• Create reporting processes to enable insight on current pricing set up to ensure accuracy in both our forecasting and actuals, reviewing and highlighting issue areas with Finance analysts.
• Post monthly trade spend accruals, ensure promotional and residual accruals are timely and correctly set up in SAP, process invoices and update balance sheet reconciliations.
• In month review and of % accruals in forecast vs actuals, ensuring no areas of under-accrual or material differences vs forecast
• Challenge sales where rebates provided for invoices do not match.
• Lead Rebate risk meetings with Finance Analysts, highlighting areas of under-accruals, proposals for alternative rebates and flagging any concerns on assumptions to be considered on YTG accruals
• Send out Daily Sales Report and MTD GP tracking, analysing material daily movements in GP and providing insight to the Commercial Finance team of the drivers and drainers
• Submit monthly sales data split by International Product Attributes and International Customer Attributes to Group and send out a summarized report to the Commercial Finance team
• Ownership of month end calendar update and task allocation, sending out key month end reports, supporting the FP&A manager on the WD2 submission and running the month end comment and BI tables

Profile:

• Studying towards an accounting qualification such as AAT or CIMA/ACCA
• At least one year of working within a Finance function
• Strong communication/presentation skills – should be able to communicate effectively with people from both financial and non-financial backgrounds
• Be performance driven, tenacious and goal orientated
• Excellent planning and organisation skills, with good attention to detail
• Ambitious and motivated to achieve results
• Able to build solid relationships
• Good presentation skills
• Good knowledge of Excel, experience of accounting systems – SAP, TPM and Cognos preferable

Salary:

£30,000 – £35,000 + bonus + benefits + study support