Finance Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

A new role has been created for an FP&A Analyst, reporting to the FP&A Senior Manager, to help build out the rapidly evolving FP&A capability, to increase the value and commerciality of insights provided to management across the business and to drive forward-looking business decision making and automation of management reporting. This role will likely suite a capable and technically strong FP&A analyst, looking to make their mark at an ambitious and growing firm. Having completed a major corporate transaction in 2022, the Group is now embarking on its next 5-year plan, to grow AUM to >£5bn. In line with these plans, the Finance Department is also executing a strategic and digital transformation programme, to right size its capabilities for the planned growth. A central objective of this strategy is to enhance the existing FP&A capability.

Key Accountabilities

• Managing and producing monthly reporting packs to meet business and group reporting needs.
• Driving the FP&A month-end and year-end reporting processes, ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
• Coordinating and finalising high-quality monthly CFO review decks and management information (MI) packs.
• Supporting in developing quarterly and annual budget and 5-year plan.
• Assist in building and maintaining complex financial models
• Support the Senior Manager in digital transformation projects, to embed greater use of data analytics and automation across the Finance Department.
• Identifying and delivering process improvements that add value.
  
  

Skills & Competencies

• Experience of FP&A best practices, across financial modelling, trend analysis, data combination and reporting.
• Ideally gained working in a bank or specialist lending business, with an understanding of key business dynamics and metrics. Experience of securitization would be an advantage.
• Analytical and hands-on by nature, happy building complex models but with an emphasis on automating where possible.
• Keen to make their mark by building a highly visible capability at an ambitious firm.
• Quality verbal and written communication skills.
  
  

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Part or Fully Qualified accountant.
• Proficient with business intelligence and data visualisation tools to manipulate large data sets.
• Strong technological literacy and modelling skills.
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Highly numerate and articulate.
• Driven and enjoys building and developing teams.
• Robust and comfortable working to deadline and under pressure.
• Persuasive.
• Flexible, calm and self-assured.
  
  

At Enra we believe that working together collaboratively is the best way to serve our customers and develop our colleagues. We are very focused on developing and maintaining our culture and remaining dedicated to the CREDIT values on which Enra was built: Customers, Results, Energy, Development, Invention and Teamwork. We live and breathe these values every day and want to ensure they underpin our future success. So, if you want to build a career in specialist finance, with an employer focused on providing brilliant customer service, lending responsibly, and creating a great office environment to develop its people, then look no further than Enra.