Financial Analyst

The role supports the Financial Analyst lead in providing financial analysis, financial data management and data extraction services to both internal and external stakeholders, reporting to the Financial Analyst lead (FAL) and ultimately to the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager (FP&AM).

Financial Analysis

• Support the FAL and FP&AM with providing financial data and analysis to management to steer decision making.
• Develop financial models to efficiently present information from projects, financial accounts, performance analyses, trends, and key performance indicators along with intelligent commentary and direction where possible.
• Provide financial information to support bids, external publications and national statistics.
• Assist with financial analysis when needed with ad hoc projects including new business initiatives and potential acquisitions.
• Work directly with Unit, Regional and Practice managers to provide customised financial data and analysis to support business decisions.
• Assist with competitor analysis, with findings used to implement best practices and challenge Group strategy.
• Support the FAL to scale up and roll out existing financial analysis models across the Group hierarchy.
• Data Management
• Support the FAL to ensure the data held in financial systems is complete and accurate. Work with the data owners to implement checks and controls to maintain data integrity.
• Provide data cleansing services to support data owners with maintaining data integrity.
• Support the FAL to ensure data adheres to the Group taxonomy with anomalies investigated and corrected where necessary.
• Work with the Group s Finance Managers to improve and expand on the current data offering based on the Groups finance strategy.
• Data Extraction & data management
• Extract raw data from systems by formulating and executing queries using software data extraction tools.
• Provide data extracts to auditors and other external stakeholders where data is being analysed by a 3rd party.
• Support the FAL to enforce data protection policies ensuring data is adequate, relevant and not excessive. Requests from stakeholders internal and external should be reviewed to ensure data protection is not compromised
• Delivery of regular training on data protection across the finance community, ensuring teams are kept informed of the latest best practice enabling them to understand data that can and can t be shared

Competencies and skills

Educational qualifications :

We can offer (subject to Company's policy) :

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

Role :   Financial Analyst

Industry Type :   Engineering & Construction

Department :   Finance & Accounting

Employment Type :   Full Time, Permanent

Role Category :   Finance

Education

UG :   Any Graduate

PG :   Any Postgraduate

Skills Required

Financial Analysis, Financial Planning, Data Management, Finance, Diversity and inclusion, Hp Data Protector