Finance Analyst - Reporting and Decision Support
Burberry
- Leeds
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Produce and maintain standard desktop procedures to support BAU activity.
- Utilise SAP BPC and Think Cell tools for the production of reports (in addition to Excel and Powerpoint)
- Produce live reports to global finance teams on a regular basis in line with phased launches.
- Own, maintain, and control a standard suite of management reports, referencing non-financial metrics as appropriate
- Produce standard management reports, including draft first line commentary and initial explanation of variances, and distribute in a timely manner (Regions, Functions, Group & Other)
- Ensure accuracy in the numbers by performing validation checks prior to sharing reports
- Attend monthly calls on performance, take meeting minutes and share actions post meeting
- Prepare materials (data, reports and slide packs) for the Executive Boards and Committees, owning the data packs that support these
- Interact with data owners and other BBS teams (Finance and non-Finance) to enable management reporting and analysis activities
- Provide standard information and simple ad-hoc analysis and insights
- Develop a deep understanding of Finance source data and data hierarchies
- Consult with Finance Business Partners on reporting and data needs
- Drive initiatives to rationalise, standardise, and automate management reports
- Make sound recommendations via appropriate feedback mechanisms (e.g. Governance group) for report design and reporting processes to ensure reports remain efficient, standardised and insightful for global users.
- Maintain process documentation / Standard desk top procedures for live reports and ensure reporting library, user access and stakeholder lists are kept up to date.
- Timely and accurate delivery of management reports to Finance teams globally
- Qualified or Part-Qualified in relevant finance qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) is desirable
- Ability to clearly communicate feedback and recommendations that will benefit the continued improvement of management reporting
- Risk mitigation by way of clear and timely communication to management.
- Effective stakeholder management developing strong and trusted relationships across the business
- Continually seeks to improve, formalise, or make processes more efficient
- Highly analytical with an impeccable attention to detail with and ability to troubleshoot and identify data issues