Finance Specialist

Mandatory requirements – Finance background

SUMMARY OF ROLE

Join our Finance Service Delivery Team in Glasgow and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial landscape. As a Finance Specialist, you’ll be at the heart of our mission, ensuring the precision of month-end deliveries and upholding the financial integrity that aligns with ambitious vision. Your expertise will guide the application and interpretation of company policies, ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreements.

You’ll be a guardian of process excellence, continuously updating and following rigorous controls. Your contributions will resonate through the Balanced Business Scorecard, driving core business strategies and validating operational efficiency with timely data insights.

• Your role will involve: Processing manual journals to ensure the accuracy of financial data
• Understanding of transactional flows to provide analysis and insight on Profit & Loss Accounts versus budgeting
• Commentary on Financial Performance and Balance Sheet reconciliations. Identifying trends and providing reporting to key business stakeholders
• Identifying trends in variance analysis to identify risks and opportunities and support the preparation of functional budgets
• Maintaining key customer relationships to ensure a value-add service, with regular engagement between Client and Finance Service Delivery to promote an integrated team approach across locations

These skills are essential:

• High numeracy and strong analytical skills
• Curiosity and the drive to question processes to become more efficient
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively at all levels of stakeholders both written and verbally
• Flexibility, self-motivation, and strong organisational skills. The ability to work on own initiative, without close supervision to plan, prioritise and work to deadlines
• Experience of working in a fast-paced changing environment

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Knowledge of Financial Accounting
• Ability to influence and persuade others