Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

As the Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst you will be responsible for the maintenance and analysis of both consolidated and departmental budgets, providing insightful financial information to management that is timely, relevant, accurate, reliable, and actionable.

It is through your effective business partnering that you will ensure departmental management have the necessary financial information relating to their business area to support them in the process of making decisions and to enable them to take responsibility of their budget.

As part of the overall role, you must think commercially throughout the process of preparing forecast information to ensure the business’s strategy is truly reflected and that targets are challenging but achievable to gain the necessary buy-in both internally and externally. Timely identification and communication of risks contained within the forecast is vital to effective performance.

You will be expected to maintain a strong connection to the global finance team and to others across the wider business. Perceptively looking around the corner at what might be coming in terms of challenges across the business, as well as opportunities for the organisation’s future growth. Always making sure you are focusing on the important and consistently striving to deliver value to Aptitude Software and its strategic goals.

Strong cashflow management is critical to the role to enable effective compliance with the Group’s capital allocation policies. Through timely identification of cash collection risks, you will drive action in the business to improve cash conversion.

• Assist in the continued development of Aptitude Software’s financial planning and forecasting processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills enabling effective working relationships to be built with colleagues from all tiers of the organisational structure.
• Intelligent verbal and written communication skills to enable financial information and principles to be articulated in a concise and logical way to ensure they can be understood by non-finance colleagues.
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, to enable the transformation of mass data to useful analysis.
• Highest standards of accuracy and attention to detail when completing all tasks.
• The ability to perform deep dives into data while still maintaining sight of the bigger picture.
• A high level of commercial awareness and business acumen to enable constructive conversations to be had with budget holders and to understand how external factors can impact the business.
• Highly organised with good time management skills to ensure reporting deadlines are adhered to while also providing each budget holder with sufficient time and support.
• Highly-driven and self-motivated individual.
• Qualified Accountant with excellent understanding of financial principles and their application.