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Kennedy Pearce Consulting Limited

Salary

Competitive

Location

Reading

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

An automotive business located near Reading is currently looking to hire a candidate with a strong marketing and analytical background for a newly created position within a new area of the business. The successful candidate will source and analyse internal and external consumer, market and business performance data in order to:

* Develop understanding and insight into Porsche existing and potential customers
* Identify and quantify aftermarket opportunity
* Report commercial sales performance
* Recommend areas of opportunity and actions to exploit found opportunities and improve performance

Core Responsibilities:

* Define and develop research and data sources to inform on customer, market and business performance dimensions
* Using the data sources and analysis of them to support the Customer strategy manager in development of customer insight; quantify market opportunity; report sales performance at national, regional and local
* Establish and management reporting suite
* Prepare management reports and response recommendations
* Liaise and manage relationship with third party suppliers as appropriate

The successful candidate will ideally have a background in marketing, with a strong analytical skill set. Advanced/ intermediate excel and data manipulation is essential. The candidate will be required to work closely with Senior Executives and third party suppliers and hence must be confident and have strong communication skills and have good commercial awareness.

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Communicate

Salary

From £30,000 to £40,000 per year

Location

Berkshire

Qualifications

Studying AMCT ideally

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

An incredibly successful business is now recruiting for a Treasury Analyst with a broad skill set.

The main responsibilities of the role are:

• Assisting in the development of international cash forecasts, cash management and currency exposures
• Taking an active role in the implementation of the cash management pooling structure amongst the entities in Eastern and Western Europe.
• Managing Guarantees and inter-company funding processes
• Help to manage banking relationships, meeting with relationship managers and other financial institutions
• Execute foreign exchange and money market transactions
• Monthly reporting on interest calculations, external and internal.
• Reconciliation of group and entity debt
• Contributing to the continuing update and development of Treasury policy and making recommendations to the Treasury team as appropriate.
• Ensuring the delivery of compliance data to the banks and keeping banks updated and appraised on corporate performance.
• Keeping up to date with technical developments in the Treasury field specifically IAS 39. Ensuring proper accounting and compliance of Treasury products.
• Assist in the negotiating and refining ISDA, guarantee and other documentation where appropriate

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Partner Financial

Salary

From £275 to £350 per year

Location

Maidenhead Riverside

Qualifications

ACA/ACCA/ACMA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

My client is a well-respected and fast-growing Retail enterprise with a strong multi-channel presence and instant brand recognition. As part of ongoing growth trends, a requirement has arisen for a commercially astute financial analyst to join the business on an interim basis.

With the business currently enjoying a significant growth curve, an opportunity has arisen to improve the company's insight into operational and commercial trends. In order to position the organisation effectively to capitalise on future growth, the Financial Analyst will be expected to provide insight and recommendations to senior management on strengths, weaknesses and opportunities within a niche area of the wider organisation.

Key Responsibilities include:
•High calibre financial analysis, focussing on setting and measuring relevant financial, commercial and operational KPIs;
•Providing analytical input to the annual budget and monthly forecasts, ensuring that expectations are in line with current performance and anticipated trends;
•Spotting seasonal, locational or ad-hoc trends, highlighting and offering commentary on these to senior management;
•Working with operational stakeholders to understand ongoing business issues and their potential relevance to the continued expansion of the company.

The Successful Candidate:
•Qualified finance professional (ACA/ACCA/ACMA) with extensive commercial and analytical experience within the Retail sector;
•Strong track record of reporting and analysis with existing experience of KPI reporting;
•Commercial mindset and the capacity to add value through considered commercial forethought and planning;
•Excellent Excel skills with the capacity to effectively analyse high volumes of financial and non-financial data.

This position is expected last for between 3 and 6 months, though the possibility for a longer engagement certainly exists. Ideally, you will be experienced in interim work, though individuals with relevant experience in the permanent market will also be considered.

I will be contacting candidates with the closest match to the client's initial criteria within ten days of application to arrange an initial meeting. If you have not heard from me within these timescales, thank you for your interest, but please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.

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FRS

Salary

From £14 to £16 per hour

Location

Berkshire

Qualifications

Recognised CCAB or Equivalent

Job term

Temporary

Job hours

Full time

FRS is currently assisting a market leading PLC in their search for a Temporary Cost Analyst. The role will carry out the verification and reconciliation process that identifies all elements of expenditure that should be disputed and ensure that all valid cost items are assigned to and recovered from carriers.

Duties will include:
• Supporting international cost verification team on their day to day query resolution with international carriers.
• Monitoring international cost verification team KPI’s.
• Develop reconciliation processes to ensure invoices are accurately reconciled on a timely basis.
• Any exceptions are identified and cleared / disputed and appropriate data feeds of cost items are provided to finance and operational teams.
• Identify bad costs and drive removal through cease activities / supplier negotiation.
• Working with Commercial, Operational and Finance teams to ensure that non-usage products are understood and appropriate information is shared between the teams.
• Provide KPIs to management on the status of verifications, credit notes received and disputes / claims in progress.
• Support Finance to ensure source data requirements are delivered on time, facilitating accurate accounting and reporting of transactions in SAP.

The successful candidate will be / have:
• Strong MS Excel & MS Access skills and proven ability to pick up new systems quickly.
• Knowledge of accounting principles and the ability to take a commercial view.
• SAP experience – desirable.
• SQL – desirable.
• Educated to degree level
• Strong persuasive & negotiations skills including communication and influencing skills.
• Desire to work in a fast changing environment.
• Ability to take end to end ownership of work from receipt of request through to successful completion.

This is a 9 month interim assignment and can be PAYE or Ltd Co. basis.

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Page Personnel Finance

Salary

From £20,000 to £30,000 per year

Location

Berkshire

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

As Finance Analyst - FP&A near Bracknell, you will be responsible for one of the Business Units, ensuring proper consolidation and analysis of financial data across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Your duties will include but not be limited to: Producing weekly sales reports and month end reports and dashboards Develop value added reports and dashboards to assist the organisation Active participation on business planning and updates Drive process improvements in function and with business team
To be successful in this role, you will have the following: A degree in Business Economics, Finance and Accounting or a Science, Maths or Stats related degree Experience with the finance field Currently studying or keen to study CIMA/ACCA Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents.
Our client is a globally recognised company and a true market leader
Salary 25 - 30k plus excellent benefits Your application will be reviewed by Page Personnel. Please be aware we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised & regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview.
Page Personnel is a leading UK recruitment consultancy

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Stanton House

Salary

From £300 to £350 per day

Location

Berkshire

Qualifications

Qualified Accountant

Job term

Temporary

Job hours

Full time

A Senior Financial Analyst is required for this Multi- national market leader in the Berkshire area.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to maintain and develop the financial performance, monitoring and forecasting models and running monthly reporting processes. They will also be required to assist the Financial Controller in delivering commercial finance support.

Key responsibilities of the role include maintaining and developing performance reports, providing analytical support for regular performance monitoring meetings, assisting with the annual budgeting process and preparing presentations, assisting with financial analysis.

My client is looking for a qualified accountant with a number of year’s post qualified experience. Ideally the candidate will have a track record of career progression and will be highly analytical and numerate with strong Excel skills. Prior experience of financial analysis would be a distinct advantage. The successful individual will be highly motivated and have excellent communication skills with the ability to develop collaborative relationships across the organisation.

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CMC Consulting

Salary

From £45,000 to £55,000 per year

Location

Berkshire

Qualifications

Qualified

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

My client, a leading FMCG, is looking to recruit a finance professional as Systems Analyst (Cognos) to work within the Financial Planning and Analysis Team with responsibility for providing financial systems support on all Cognos applications in the UK Business units and the European Consolidated Reporting function.

Responsibilities will include:

- Run month-end process, ensuring accuracy of P&L structure and mapping between SAP FICO, Cognos and Hyperion.
- Maintain Cognos security for all Central European users.
- Provide budget support to the UK Business, ensuring data is captured in the systems, deadlines are met and Budget data can be retrieved from the system.
- Provide forecasting support to the UK Business, Run, maintain and improve 24-month rolling forecast process in Cognos Reflect any product/customer and market changes within Cognos.
- Ensure forecast sales are costed correctly and accurately through Cognos planning Pro-actively develop the Cognos applications to ensure they meet the changing Business needs.
- Devise, maintain and improve reconciliation processes to suit changing business environment and review anomalies in raw margin data between SAP SD, SAP FI and Cognos.
- Ensure that the appropriate training is in place across the Business ensuring any employees new to a role are given the appropriate Cognos training.

The successful Systems Analyst will be ideally a Qualified Accountant, with demonstrable experience working with Cognos as an Analyst, Contributor & Transformer. Strong forecasting & budgeting experience ideally in a selling and manufacturing environment would be advantageous as well as Excel skills and familiarity with several different databases and ERP Systems (ideally exposure to SAP and or Hyperion). Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate and influence effectively are also required as is the ability to perform Cognos training.

Where UK qualifications are specified we will take into account overseas equivalents. We do our best to ensure that the wording used in our job vacancies does not discriminate against any individual in any way. Please contact us if you feel that this is not the case.

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Executive Facilities

Salary

From £30,000 to £40,000 per year

Location

Slough

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Business Analyst Supply Chain
The Company:
Our client specialises in providing cloud based software solutions that helps companies to drive efficiency, quality and compliance in complex and global supply chains.
Typical markets include: retail, fashion, insurance and pharmaceuticals with clients such as New Look, Marks & Spencer, George International, Alliance Healthcare and AXA .
The position:
Due to continued growth they require an additional Business Analyst, working within a team based near Slough to support continuing developments with their customers.
The job responsibilities include : Support the Project Manager and Developers in delivering solutions.
Capture, analyse and document the business requirements.
Understand the need for change, assess the impact and suggest solutions.
Communicate requirements to the Project Manager and internal development team.
Support the delivery of solutions including, but not limited to, definition of functional requirements, system testing, supporting user acceptance testing and training the customer.
Skills required:
A business management or logistics degree would be an advantage.
Be able to work with minimal supervision.
Excellent presentation and communication skills
Retail supply chain experience would be an advantage.

Benefits:
Attractive salary and full benefits package. This is an exciting position for someone with a willingness to learn and expand their skills and experience in a supportive and innovative company.