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Finance Analyst

Employer
SSP
Location
North West London, UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 22, 2019

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Job Role
Finance Data Analyst
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Finance Analyst SSP UK is a leading operator of food and beverage concessions in travel locations, operating restaurants, bars, cafés, food courts, lounges and convenience stores in airports, train stations, motorway service stations and other leisure locations. With over 50 years of experience, today we have around 37,000 employees, serving approximately 1.5 million customers every day. We have business at approximately 140 airports and 280 rail stations, and operate more than 2,600 units in over 33 countries around the world. We are recruiting for a Finance Analyst to join our commercial finance team. The opportunity will be based at our Head Offices in London, Euston. The Role: Working within the planning team you'll be reporting into the Senior Finance Analyst. You will be responsible for assisting with the preparation, reporting and management of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts. The

Responsibilities:
Analysis & Reporting - provide in depth variance analysis using large data sets and historical data to understand key trends to aid decision making. You'll also be expected to prepare various ad-hoc reports in relation to the budgeting cycle. Margin analysis - build models to help understand margins at a granular level Business Partnering - providing key stakeholders with support to improve commercial decision making, it will involve business partnering with Operations and other key departments Data collection, modelling and distribution - develop excel based models to assist and create efficiencies in forecasting, maintain and update models with up to date information, distribute data on time to the right people Planning & Forecast - assisting in the production of detailed bottom up annual budgets and quarterly forecast for the UK trading divisions for sales and gross profit Workload split: 60% Sales budgeting cycle 30% GP budgeting cycle 10% other ad-hoc related queries Key Measurables: Delivering sales and GP budgets on time, adhering to group deadlines Skills/Knowledge: Essential The successful candidate will be degree educated with strong technical skills and a good commercial awareness A keen interest in Finance and commercial project work Strong Excel skills and modelling experience Experience in preparing forecasts for multi-site companies Ability to manage multiple tasks in tangent whilst prioritising critical business deadlines Ability to provide timely, relevant and accurate reports whilst working under pressure Ability to develop relationships with key stakeholders, challenge others in a constructive manner and be able to work as part of a cross- functional team Strong communication skills are essential as you will need to liaise with senior professionals within the company both finance and non-finance Desirable: Food or Retail experience preferred The applicant could either be part qualified or with a background in financial analysis The Benefits: Along with great career prospects at SSP, we are offering a competitive salary, discounts off a variety of retailers and service providers, up to 50% off our own brands up and down the country, 25 days of holidays bank holidays and much more This job was originally posted as www.caterer.com/job/88370231

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