Rutherford Cross is delighted to be exclusively partnered with a global engineering firm to help appoint a Financial Analyst. The business has grown significantly in recent years through a combination of M&A activity and organic growth and has a worldwide presence. This position represents a key hire for the business in its West of Scotland operation. On offer is a salary of up to £55k + excellent benefits and a hybrid working model.

Ideally, we are looking for a qualified accountant with some degree of post-qualification experience. The business is happy to consider people who remain in practice or who qualified in industry/moved to industry. If you come from industry, you will ideally have good systems experience (Cognos/TM1 particularly advantageous) as you will be expected to take a share of ownership of the systems within the business over time.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Analysis:

• Supporting the senior management team with ad hoc financial analysis
• Collation of financial reporting analysis requested from the Group

Ownership of the Finance Structure within COGNOS:

• Administration of the group finance structure within IBM COGNOS
• Perform routine systems maintenance and updates as required
• Own future amendments to the Group finance structure resulting from M&A activity
• Build detailed system-driven excel reports for use by the FDs of the individual businesses within the Group and their teams
• Resolve time-critical systems queries/issues as raised by the global finance teams
• Support of existing TM1 reporting and processes
• Where relevant, to act as a systems Subject Matter Expert and to advise and assist the Finance Team and wider organisation in this capacity

Assist with Group Internal and Board Reporting:

• Fortnightly Reporting – Assist with the preparation of the Group Mid-Month report, ensuring integrity of numbers and completeness of commentary
• Monthly Reporting – Assist with generation of accurate and complete commentaries for the monthly Group report and ensure integrity of numbers
• Assist with the production of the Group Monthly Reporting Pack for the Executive team, Board and other external stakeholders
• The above involves working directly with the GFC, CFO and the CEO

Involvement in the Group Cost Centre Forecast/ Budget Process:

• Assist with the co-ordination of the Group Forecast/ Budget Process, including preparation of forecast/budget instructions, creating reporting templates, production of the Group Powerpoint Pack and management of the overall timetable

For an initial confidential discussion regarding this market-leading opportunity, please contact Harry Young at Rutherford Cross on 07494 280 500 / [email protected]