Senior Finance Analyst
Permanent
Belfast, UK or Manila, PH
Work Schedule: Hybrid
About Pearson Finance
Pearson Finance is one finance team, improving Pearson’s performance, through finance excellence as stewards of value. We combine world-class finance skills with a commercial focus and a continuous improvement mindset. Our strategic priorities centre around data and storytelling, being trusted advisors to shape business outcomes, driving efficiency through continuous improvement, automation and standardization, and finally to mitigate risk as we partner with the rest of the business to drive execution of Pearson’s overall strategy.
About the Role
We are recruiting this role within Pearson Finance Services (PFS) to support with the preparation and delivery of financial planning and analysis to business areas, whilst enabling effective business decision making. This role will also be expected to contribute to aspects of the budgeting and forecasting cycle.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Take ownership of the budget and forecasting process, including meeting with the business to agree compensation, discretionary and capital expenditure plans.
- Prepare forecast summary reporting packs for the business with analysis and commentary.
- Input into the annual strategic planning process through preparation of analysis and other information to enable collation of the plan.
- Prepare key month end management reporting packs for decision making / disclosure to market.
- Monthly and quarterly consolidation of management information packs across business areas and roll up to group level showing performance against budget, forecast and prior year
About You
- You will have strong accounting knowledge – holding a recognised accountancy qualification or equivalent is highly desirable.
- Experience of planning, budgeting, forecasting and producing management information for decision making in a complex commercial environment.
- Able to apply a range of budgeting and forecasting techniques to provide the business with the relevant financial information
- Well developed analytical/variance analysis skills, proven ability to review and analyse financial data and explain results to senior management. Provide analysis to support decision making, including presenting economic outcomes, identifying key value drivers, benefits, risks and accounting implications.
- Advanced user of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel (v-lookups, sum-ifs and pivot tables)
Your rewards & benefits
We know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. We know one size doesn’t fit all, so our workplace programs meet the different needs of our diverse teams, and their families, too.
Please see our attractive UK benefits here: Pearson Jobs - Benefits
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