Financial Analyst

Clinical Professionals Limited ,
Epsom, Surrey
Salary: £22 per hour

Overview

Financial Analyst An opportunity has arisen for a Financial Analyst to join one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 170 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products. Location: Surrey Rate: 22 - 25 per hour Duration: 6 months Role Summary: Gather data from internal systems and data from external systems Format data for entry into model or analysis, load data into appropriate tool Input assumptions and data, run model Validate Revenue and Expense Data Highlight significant variances to budget, actuals and prior year, pinpoint specific type of variance categorise variances as system/technical or business related, follow-up with suspected system/technical related variances, create variances report, categorizing variances by type, amount and specific location Research business related variances, identify variance as manual accounting error or legitimate business movement, follow-up with GFS or market colleagues to resolve variance Determine if reporting need is already met by Standard Reporting Package, Document Reporting Parameters, Construct Shared View of New Report in Reporting Tool, Review Output with Report Requestor, Adjust as Necessary, Save View in Reporting Tool and Add to List of Standard Reports Confirm that data is available and validated, access reporting systems/tools, select appropriate parameters, run/refresh report (Essbase) or export to Excel and modify as necessary Receive Offline reports and commentary or export data from reporting tool, consolidate data into central report Review Output with Customers - Review report and commentary with business partners Drive and enable Continuous Improvements by constantly focussing on opportunities for improving efficiency and effectiveness of existing and new processes. Experience/ Qualifications Required: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with finance/accounting or related experience Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and time management skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills Basic understanding of finance IT system architecture may be required. Management Reporting and Analysis process experience preferred Advanced Microsoft Office capabilities, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word Competency with spreadsheets & financial modelling (comfort with data manipulation and financial systems) Ability to identify business issues/opportunities and to frame business questions Knowledge of various financial systems and financial reporting aspects is preferred Basic knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Please apply by sending your CVs to or call in for or Ollie on .