Finance Analyst

Element has an opportunity for a new Finance Analyst to join our expanding Global Business Services team in Edinburgh, supporting our our Aero, Space & Defence business unit finance team, maintaining management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and planning activities.

The role will be responsible for monthly and budget databooks, producing reporting packs, performing variance analysis and supporting the preparation of monthly business reviews and performance reporting.

We are looking for a self-driven finance professional with a foundation in FP&A and management accounting. The successful candidate will be able to analyse financial performance, identify key business drivers, support budgeting and forecasting activities, and translate financial data into meaningful business insight.

Working closely with our Senior Finance team and Business Unit Finance Director, the role will also support selected Planning & Performance activities, providing exposure to executive reporting, business performance reviews and commercial finance initiatives

• →Run weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reports, monitoring key performance indicators and providing initial commentary and analysis
• →Support budget, forecast and planning processes through the maintenance of databooks, planning schedules and submissions
• →Produce monthly finance and business reporting packs, including management reporting, KPIs and business review materials
• →Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year, identifying key drivers, trends, risks and opportunities
• →Support P&L reviews and the preparation of financial commentary and performance insights
• →Support Planning & Performance activities, including data preparation, consolidation, reporting and performance analysis
• →Analyse and reconcile data from multiple systems, ensuring reporting accuracy and consistency
• →Support reporting automation and continuous improvement using Excel, Power Query and Power BI
• →Identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency, reduce manual processes and strengthen controls

Skills and Experience

• Relevant experience in FP&A, management accounting, commercial finance or financial analysis
• Experience analysing operational KPIs alongside financial performance
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting and management reporting processes
• Ability to analyse a P&L and explain key revenue, margin and cost variances
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify performance drivers, trends and risks within financial data
• Sound understanding of management accounts and core accounting principles
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting and performance review processes, including variance analysis and management reporting

Qualifications  

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
• Part-qualified or studying towards CIMA, ACCA or ACA (or equivalent experience)
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables and data manipulation
• Experience in financial reporting, analysis or FP&A support activities

Desirable

• Experience using Power BI to build or maintain dashboards and management reports
• Exposure to D365 Finance & Operations, OneStream or another ERP or corporate performance management system

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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