Your new company

Hays Accountancy & Finance are partnering exclusively with a global Manufacturing Group to recruit a dynamic and experienced Financial Analyst to join their established team in Hereford, Herefordshire. An interesting permanent accounting role providing support to the Financial Controller in a range of duties from cost analysis/reporting, financial analysis, budgeting/forecasting, month/year-end support, process improvement projects, business partnering and more. This role is ideally suited to a CIMA/ACCA/ACA part-qualified studier or qualified finance professional with experience within the manufacturing sector.

Your new role

Your key duties will involve providing analysis on cost improvement and productivity pipeline projects, preparation of monthly forecasts and annual budgets, along with producing quality reporting/analysis on financial/operations metrics. You will support month/quarter/year-end processes, journal processing and balance sheet reconciliations. Reporting on inventory, cost and profitability along with fixed and variable spending analysis. You will be involved in BI reporting, contributing to budgeting cycles, audit and reporting for year-end and quarterly accounts, along with supporting Capex and SOX processes. You will assist in year-end cost rolls with the FP&A team, bank posting and payment loading, support stock processes along with business partner with operations/planning/commercial departments to drive improvements.

What you'll need to succeed

To be considered for this interesting and fast-paced Financial Analyst role, you will need some experience in a similar position, ideally part-qualified/qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA or studying towards full qualification with experience within financial systems, with strong MS Excel skills. You will be used to managing workloads to meet deadlines, strong attention to detail, be comfortable working in a team environment, but also using your own initiative. You will have excellent communication skills to influence beyond just the finance function and partner with operational management across the business. You will be able to manipulate and report on data, along with being willing to learn and develop your skill set. Experience with SAP, ERP systems, Power BI, costing processes, and within a large manufacturing group would be advantageous but not essential.

What you'll get in return

This permanent Finance Analyst role will offer a salary between £40,000 - £50,000 per annum, dependable on experience, based in Hereford, Herefordshire. Benefits include a generous pension scheme of up to 9 % contributed from employer, a study package if applicable for ACA/ACCA/CIMA, an annual bonus scheme, local discounts of services, life assurance x 4, along with further group benefits. A great opportunity to join a well-established Manufacturing Group where you can really add value with future development prospects.

What you need to do now

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