Rutherford Cross is working with a Manufacturing organisation based in Glasgow to recruit for the role of Senior FP&A Analyst. This newly created and exciting role will mainly focus on supporting all forecasting and analysis for the business. Working with a fast growing business, the candidate will be involved with short and long-term forecasting and reporting of key financial metrics and results. A summary of some of the key responsibilities are below:

• Assisting with the preparation of monthly consolidated reports and variance analysis for senior management
• Assisting with preparation of quarterly forecasts and annual budgets
• Key point of contact for budget holders and the senior management team
• Promoting cost awareness and cost control culture, ensuring sign-off and authorisation procedures are strictly adhered to
• Consistently seek improvement to financial processes, controls, procedures, presentations and reporting
• Analysing monthly ledger data to identify variances to forecast and to highlight potential risks and opportunities
• Assisting and leading projects and initiatives to optimise the effectiveness of existing business applications, technologies, and systems, and to build efficiencies and improvements into current business processes
• Deputizing for the Director of FP&A as and when required
• Partnering with the finance reporting team to make sure that all project costs are matched to revenue milestones and costs are deferred where appropriate
• Partnering with the Operations Directors to ensure that operations are performing in line with financial expectations
• Assisting senior management with ad hoc requests, projects, reports and research
• Maintaining various Excel forecast models and reports

The ideal candidate will ideally be a qualified accountant, and have a diverse skill set that includes: good communication skills, commitment to high quality work, attention to detail,  continual process improvement and being independently motivated to drive results. On offer is a great salary with bonus and a wider benefits package.