Financial Analyst

Job Details

Job Title: Financial Analyst

Department: Head Office - Finance

Ground Floor West, Telecom House

Location: 125-135 Preston Road, Brighton, BN1 6AF

Reporting to: COO

Staff responsible for: None

Salary: Salary Band 5

Hours are worked between 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday inclusive

Any specific working Hybrid Working

conditions:

Summary of the Role

To conduct financial planning and analysis for all grace eyre finances including budgeting and forecasting, and contract tenders, negotiations, and renewals. Support the Finance Manager and Finance Team with financial analysis. Advise Directors and other senior leadership colleagues on finances of Grace Eyre based on the data you create.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Participate in Grace Eyre’s short- and medium-term financial planning to contribute to Grace Eyre’s strategic plan.
• Deliver financial and commercial analytics, and modelling, implementing best practices and modelling standards in modelling and business development processes.
• Participate in a robust budget setting and reforecasting process.
• To support and advise the Finance Manager and Business partners to produce accurate, complete timely and useful monthly financial and management accounts/ budget variance reports in easy read to enable Grace Eyre to understand, interpret and manage our finances.
• Participate in relevant finance / ops meetings to assist in planning and control of services provided.
• Develop and keep up to date pricing strategies and costs models for all services.
• Evaluate new business opportunities or proposed major new fundraising / project initiatives. Summarise and present complex opportunities and risks for senior management decision-making.
• To provide financial data as needed for contract negotiations.
• To provide financial data for other stakeholders as needed e.g. lenders, funders.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across finance, operations, and business development teams.
• To support other teams with analysis as needed to support our overall data strategy and reporting e.g. power BI KPI reporting.

The post will include other duties and responsibilities not specified here. It is also likely that changes will be required from time to time.

Qualifications/ Education

Essential

• CFA preferable but would consider a qualified accountant (CIPFA), or finance degree.

Skills/Competencies/Abilities

• Ability to develop, monitor and maintain management information systems and procedures. Essential
• Ability to communicate information clearly and precisely, and Essential
• assimilate data and information quickly.
• Ability to communicate effectively in person, in writing and over the Essential
• telephone with individuals and with a wide variety of organisations and
• audiences. To research, analyse and interpret complex information and
• produce clear verbal and written reports.
• Ability to solve problems and continually update knowledge to support Essential
• Grace Eyre to develop best practice financial modelling and analysis
• Initiative-taking and able to get on with things with minimal input

IT Skills

• Good IT Skills - general Microsoft office suite. Essential
• Advanced Excel skills Essential
• Power Bi skills for reporting and other reporting tools Desirable
• Experience of Care Cubed would be a distinct advantage. Desirable

Knowledge

• Experience of financial modelling / data analysis including contracts, Essential
• pricing schedules, cost analysis and business cases.
• Experience of budget setting, variance analysis, and forecasting Essential
• Experience of working within the charity sector. Desirable
• Understanding and commitment to equal opportunities, especially in Essential
• relation to people with learning disabilities, and the staff who support
• them.

Our Values

Our organisational values are a shared set of standards that everyone at Grace Eyre can aspire to and help us to bring our vision, mission, Charter, and Our Plan to life.

Our values are: