Finance Business Analyst

Finance Business Analyst

Role Profile

As the Senior Finance Business Analyst (SFBA), you'll report directly to the Director of Planning & Reporting, playing a key role in managing Technology costs across the Group, addressing M&A impacts on GS functions, and driving the business planning and reporting cycle for GS. You'll collaborate closely with finance colleagues across divisions, leveraging your insight and analytical expertise to influence business decisions. Working in a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, you'll be instrumental in shaping and managing the financial direction of the business.

Key Responsibilities

You will be expected to support the Planning and Reporting Director on the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:

Forecasting & Planning:

• Technology "Horizontal" Costs
• Lead on FP&A activities across Divisional and Group finance colleagues
• Produce consolidated reporting in excel including commentary, variance analysis and bridges
• Produce supporting PowerPoint slides with good story telling
• Support drive to make activity more efficient and effective
• M&A
• Support the Director of Planning and Reporting on establishing standard FP&A processes and material to provide visibility to stakeholders across impacted divisions on the "Change" and "Run" impacts across divisional operating models
• Support the Director of Planning and Reporting on GS function M&A assessments as required
• Business Planning & Reporting
• Produce the monthly Operations Management Report and Quarterly Board Report
• Support production of PPP material
• Liaise with the GS Head of FP&A and team to effectively co-ordinate and align material produced with Financial Reporting to the Group. Liaise with HR stakeholders to effectively co-ordinate and align material produced with HR reporting to the Group

Monthly/Annual Accounting & Reporting:

• Responsibility for maintaining the SAP ledgers for the head office entities.
• Accounting for monthly accruals and prepayments.
• Accounting for salaries and associated employment taxes.
• Posting monthly interest journals and associated FX movements provided by the Finance Controller.
• Posting intercompany loan interest and repayment journals.
• Accounting for intercompany management fees.
• Reporting intercompany positions into the Group consolidation system and following up on any mismatches with fellow Group entity owners.
• Uploading trial balances for the head office entities into the Group consolidation system.
• Uploading supplementary templates, including balance sheet movement analysis, direct cash flow, and indirect cashflow.
• Preparing month end and quarter end review files for the head office files, including commentary on balance sheet variances.
• Preparation of monthly Group FX analysis file, primarily driven by FX on intercompany loans.
• Preparation of monthly Group exceptional costs analysis.
• Finalising a selection of Head Office entity statutory accounts.

Finance Integration:

• Working with the Director, Planning & Reporting to continue progress on integrating the legacy Tarsus Group Finance operations and activities, winding down activity in the legacy Tarsus Head Office entities by the end of 2024.

If this seems to match up with your skillset please apply!

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