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Amazon

Salary

Competitive + Bonus, Restricted Stock Units, Pension

Location

Hemel Hempstead Town, West Midlands, Peterborough

Qualifications

Degree qualifies or similar

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Job Description

This role is open throughout the UK (Swansea, Dunfermline, Gourock, Milton Keynes, Hemel Hempstead, Peterborough, Doncaster, Rugeley) If you are interested please apply for this link which is aligned to one of the sites and we will align application to site nearest to your location.

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. .

As a member of the Operations Finance team you will play a key role in supporting the leadership team in making key business decisions. You will ensure plans are in place to ensure customer expectations are met and business plans are delivered.

Primary responsibilities:

• Working in close partnership with Operations to develop and optimise short and medium terms business plans
• Reforecasting as required based on refined planning assumptions and changes in demand
• Reviewing forecast accuracy, and make proactive recommendations to minimize variances
• Analysing performance data and developing insights into business performance vs. plan
• Developing robust reconciliation and validation processes to support high levels of accuracy in forecasting
• Taking ownership for the sites business plan and reacting to changes in tight timescales
• Providing coverage and support to the wider Operation Finance team

Essential Experience - you will need these skills or experience to be successful:

• Proven experience of working in a business planning, forecasting or resource planning role in complex business environment
• Extensive use of Microsoft Excel including advanced formulas
• Demonstrable experience using analytics to influence key business stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills; including written and oral communication skills

Desirable Experience - any of these skills or experience will make you stand out from the crowd:

• Degree or equivalent qualifications
• Microsoft Visual Basic for applications (VBA)
• SQL in either Oracle and MySQL
• Bespoke labour planning systems and processes

In return, we will offer you a competitive salary, stock units, site performance related pay potential and other excellent benefits including healthcare and employee discount. You will also have the opportunity to develop a rewarding career with one of the UK's leading online retailers.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief

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Amazon

Salary

Competitive + Bonus, Restricted Stock Units, Pension

Location

Inverclyde, Swansea, Milton Keynes

Qualifications

Degree qualified or similar

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Job Description

This role is open throughout the UK (Swansea, Dunfermline, Gourock, Milton Keynes, Hemel Hempstead, Peterborough, Doncaster, Rugeley) If you are interested please apply for this link which is aligned to one of the sites and we will align application to site nearest your location.

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. .

As a member of the Operations Finance team you will play a key role in supporting the leadership team in making key business decisions. You will ensure plans are in place to ensure customer expectations are met and business plans are delivered.

Primary responsibilities:

• Working in close partnership with Operations to develop and optimise short and medium terms business plans
• Reforecasting as required based on refined planning assumptions and changes in demand
• Reviewing forecast accuracy, and make proactive recommendations to minimize variances
• Analysing performance data and developing insights into business performance vs. plan
• Developing robust reconciliation and validation processes to support high levels of accuracy in forecasting
• Taking ownership for the sites business plan and reacting to changes in tight timescales
• Providing coverage and support to the wider Operation Finance team

Essential Experience - you will need these skills or experience to be successful:

• Proven experience of working in a business planning, forecasting or resource planning role in complex business environment
• Extensive use of Microsoft Excel including advanced formulas
• Demonstrable experience using analytics to influence key business stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills; including written and oral communication skills

Desirable Experience - any of these skills or experience will make you stand out from the crowd:

• Degree or equivalent qualifications
• Microsoft Visual Basic for applications (VBA)
• SQL in either Oracle and MySQL
• Bespoke labour planning systems and processes

In return, we will offer you a competitive salary, stock units, site performance related pay potential and other excellent benefits including healthcare and employee discount. You will also have the opportunity to develop a rewarding career with one of the UK's leading online retailers.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief

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OCS Group Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £37,000 per year + benefits

Location

Crawley, London, Crawley

Qualifications

Qualified CIMA, ACA or ACCA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Business Analyst - Compliance

You’ll be working in our Finance team, one of OCS’ central functions, vital to ensuring that the specialist regions and divisions operate effectively.

About the role:
You’ll support four business units, providing financial and analytical support for operational teams to allow them to improve contract performance and maximise profitability. Specifically you will:

- Review management accounts, ensuring accuracy and identifying causes of variance from budget and forecast.
- Assist in the production of budgets and forecasts to meet the businesses financial objectives.
- Work with the FD and operational teams to develop management information reporting, operational performance metrics and other business KPI’s.
- Analyse turnover and profitability of client contracts, identifying contract and price review points and effectively communicating these to the operational management teams.
- Conduct audits to ensure correct pricing and compliance with financial contract terms.
- Establish core reports and develop/maintain effective and informative KPI’s for the business.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate the maximising of profitability across the business units.
- Highlight potential impacts on profitability and partner with the operational teams to maximise margin.
- Coordinate the management of all debt queries and driving their resolution to ensure that age of debt is kept in line with Group objectives.
- Provide information and expertise in the production of tenders and costings.
- Ensure compliance and adherence to company guidelines, best practice and relevant legislation throughout the business.

About you:
This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leading team in which you will play a key role in ensuring the ongoing profitability and growth of our business. You will already be a successful finance professional and will have:

- A strong track record of delivering effective analysis of business performance leading to improved growth.
- Experience of preparing and reviewing management accounts in a large, complex organisation.
- Demonstrable commercial acumen.
- Qualified CIMA, ACA or ACCA
- Experience of SAP accounting system and Prophix or similar.
- Knowledge of the Facilities or outsourced services sector would be an advantage.
- Excellent IT skills with a strong understanding of MS Office applications, particularly Excel.

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Celesio

Salary

From £36,000 to £41,500 per year

Location

Birmingham, Coventry, Warwick

Qualifications

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Commercial Analyst / Generics & Deals Analyst

Job Purpose:

To provide financial support to the Procurement Team to assist in the drivers of Sales and Margins and to financially model potential Initiative benefits. To produce robust reporting and to ensure product related risks and opportunities are recognised, quantified and highlighted to the Buyers and Finance teams.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Build relationships with the procurement team to help realise margin opportunities/risks through the understanding of proposals (Market or internal) on the business.
• Preparation of the month end Retail Prescription Margin reports by category and monitor monthly performance against budget / forecast / previous month through trending and variance analysis.
• Reconcile rebates and identify any required margin adjustments to correctly account for financial risk to month end and forecast.
• Deliver quarterly forecasting on Retail Prescription Margins and Annual Budgets (c£1.2bn), ensuring delivery to reporting deadlines.
• Track key business drivers and anticipate impacts of market changes to Budget/Forecast
• Identify and quantify Procurement margin risks and opportunities, ensuring that these are communicated promptly in the best format for financial and non financial stakeholders
• Provide analytical insight to drive decision making through modelling new areas for analysis and build robust excel models for accurate calculations.
• Development of KPI reporting solutions to measure buying performance, enhance procurement decision making and challenge the status quo.
• Use analytical skills to determine margin growth opportunities within procurement and help to drive profitability.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

Essential
• Strong analytical mindset
• Intermediate Excel level
• Experience of translating Commercial results through analytics, to both financial and non financial individuals
• Adaptable and pro-active with strong problem solving skills
• Proven stakeholder management and challenge skill set
• Ability to drive decision making through analytical methods
• Present information in a clear & concise manner
• A fast learner who is able to quickly assimilate the complexities of procurement and hit the ground running
• Good team player

Desirable
• Qualified/Part Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA)
• Experience in using a Business Intelligence tool at Super User level as well as intermediate Excel skills
• Personal organisation and planning skills
• Experienced user in Access

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Celesio

Salary

Competitive

Location

Coventry, West Midlands, Birmingham

Qualifications

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

BI and Systems Analyst

Job Purpose:
Specification and development of business reporting and information solutions.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Development of reporting solutions using the most appropriate tools to satisfy the business requirements.
• Document requirements and develop solutions working closely with IT to ensure business requirements are met.
• Advise business users on the most effective way of extracting information to provide insight to drive behaviour.
• Assist with user training.
• Liaising with IT to manage the resolution of day to day issues on financial and reporting systems such as: Data integrity issues; Load failures etc.
• Day to day administration for a number of Business Systems including Microstrategy, CedAr, Basware/EDI, Bank Rec, Auditworks, On-Line banking, Access databases and maintenance of the data dictionary.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

Essential

• Experienced in using a Business Intelligence tool at Super User level as well as advanced Access and Excel skills.
• A fast learner who is able to quickly assimilate the complexities of a variety of Business Systems.
• Adaptable and pro-active with strong problem solving skills
• Personal organisation and planning skills and the ability to multi-task.
• Strong analytical mindset
• Ability to present information in a clear & concise manner.
• Good team player

Desirable

• VBA, Microsoft Query SQL skills would be an advantage

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Celesio

Salary

Competitive

Location

Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands

Qualifications

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

BI and Systems Analyst - 12 month fixed term contract

Job Purpose:
Specification and development of business reporting and information solutions.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Development of reporting solutions using the most appropriate tools to satisfy the business requirements.
• Document requirements and develop solutions working closely with IT to ensure business requirements are met.
• Advise business users on the most effective way of extracting information to provide insight to drive behaviour.
• Assist with user training.
• Liaising with IT to manage the resolution of day to day issues on financial and reporting systems such as: Data integrity issues; Load failures etc.
• Day to day administration for a number of Business Systems including Microstrategy, CedAr, Basware/EDI, Bank Rec, Auditworks, On-Line banking, Access databases and maintenance of the data dictionary.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

Essential

• Experienced in using a Business Intelligence tool at Super User level as well as advanced Access and Excel skills.
• A fast learner who is able to quickly assimilate the complexities of a variety of Business Systems.
• Adaptable and pro-active with strong problem solving skills
• Personal organisation and planning skills and the ability to multi-task.
• Strong analytical mindset
• Ability to present information in a clear & concise manner.
• Good team player

Desirable

• VBA, Microsoft Query SQL skills would be an advantage

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Celesio

Salary

From £45,000 to £50,000 per year

Location

London, Central London

Qualifications

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Sharing Central London premises, DrThom and John Bell & Croyden form part of the multinational Celesio Group, which in the UK also includes Lloydspharmacy and AAH Pharmaceuticals.

Dr Thom

Founded in 2002, DrThom provides a range of remote medical services to patients all over the country, in partnership with the NHS and private organisations.

With a growing body of research evidence showing that patient-led, remotely overseen medical care is safe and leads to better health for patients DrThom continues to lead the way in making it as easy as possible for patients to look after themselves.

John Bell & Croyden (JB&C)

John Bell & Croyden was founded in 1789 and has an outstanding history of achievements and is perceived as one of the leading pharmacies in the UK. As such the team is proud to be appointed Pharmacists to Her Majesty the Queen.

In the course of our strategic development we are looking for outstanding talents with the drive and passion to work with the management teams of these two businesses.

Our parent companies Celesio UK and Celesio AG based in Stuttgart/Germany can provide outstanding academic candidates individual development programmes and career opportunities in Europe and South-America.

Principle tasks and responsibilities
 Development, implementation and execution of a suite of management reports in co-operation with Celesio UK finance
 Strategic financial analysis and business modelling, taking e.g. environment, market development, customer demand, competition into account
 Identify and implement process improvements to promote good financial control and reporting
 Financial preparation and support during the budgeting process; monitoring of deviations to budget and deduction of management implications
 Financial tracking and monitoring of business initiatives
 Act as the conduit between Senior Management of JB&C and DRThom and Celesio UK head office on all financial matters
 Ensure robust financial procedures and controls are in place and adhered to
 Initially, to manage the migration of transactional accounting from DrThom to Head Office
 Manage a team of 2

Profile required:
 Applicants must possess a finance qualification (CIMA,ACA,ACCA) or equivalent
 Ability and desire to thrive within a fast paced, ever changing, team orientated environment
 Highly analytical, strong Excel skills are essential with Access skills preferred
 A strong communicator, possessing initiative and commercial acumen

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Dow Jones International LTD

Salary

Competitive

Location

Central London, London

Qualifications

CIMA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Position: FP&A Analyst EMEA

Reports to: Head of FP&A EMEA


Business Overview

Dow Jones is a $2bn revenue company headquartered in New York. The company’s products include B2C brands such as the Wall Street Journal newspaper and website, as well as a range of products tailored to specific business information needs in the Enterprise / B2B market including Factiva, Dow Jones Newswires and Financial News. The company is part of News Corporation.

The EMEA FP&A team is responsible for the providing detailed financial and operations analysis and support to the Dow Jones business as necessary in Europe across the company’s range of Enterprise and Consumer products.

Position Summary Statement
The FP&A Analyst will be responsible for driving improved understanding of the performance of the business and the key day to day metrics. This will be done through reporting of relevant financial information, coupled with the development of KPI’s and a willingness to provide support into the business to meet ad hoc analytical requests.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
• Develop financial and KPI reporting for Financial News and all relevant areas in EMEA
• Develop reporting & understanding of performance by product, by sales team & by country
• Be a partner to business, helping to guide understanding of business performance through reporting of KPI data
• Provide insight into operational reporting on monthly and year to date performance vs targets and prior year performance. Understand variances and provide business analytical support
• Contribute to strategic plans: collect, consolidate and deliver information based on accurate assumptions and detailed analysis
• Take initiative in providing ad hoc analysis and business planning, and identify opportunities for valuable management KPI reporting
• Assist on project work as and when it arises.


Key Relationships Internally and Externally

Internal
Head of FP&A, EMEA
Finance Director, EMEA
Managing Director EMEA
CEO, Financial News
Commercial Department heads
US Finance team
Other EMEA Finance teams (GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Tax)

External
Outsourced Service Providers

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Essential
• CIMA Qual with 1-2 years experience
• Excellent analytical skills and experience
• Experience of the preparation of KPI’s and business critical reporting
• Excellent Excel skills (as a minimum)
• Personality:
- strong interpersonal and communication skills
- pro-active mindset and ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
- well organised, hard worker, flexible and autonomous
- achievement oriented
- team player with ability to manage multiple agendas and interests

Preferable
• Knowledge of Peoplesoft and Cognos systems
• Media experience

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ebookers.com

Salary

From £50,000 to £60,000 per year + 10% bonus

Location

London

Qualifications

CIMA, ACCA or ACA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

As one of the original pioneers in our sector, here at ebookers we’re continuing to lead the way in online travel as the European arm of global giant Orbitz Worldwide. The strength of our brand is matched by our passion for new technologies and techniques. This makes us a natural home for ambitious, career-focused professionals with the talent to thrive in a competitive, ever-evolving industry. We’re a business with a bright, vibrant personality and an entrepreneurial, multinational culture where you can play a part in transforming the way the world books travel.

We are currently seeking a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst to join our FP&A team. This is a highly commercial role in the Finance team providing direct Business Partnering support to one of three Regional MDs (RMDs). You will represent a region of up to five ebookers points of sale and the role comprises of three main elements:

1. Commercial support: Act as first point of contact for RMD on all commercial finance related queries.

2. Planning: Lead the contribution planning for the Region, leveraging detailed Excel financial modelling tools, challenging submissions from the Region, securing buy-in from the Region and summarising results in digestible format.

3. Analysis: Lead weekly Regional trading calls with Regional MD and wider Regional team, providing concise financial analysis of the week’s results and participating in wider commercial discussion.

You must be qualified (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) and have significant post-qualification experience in a similar FP&A/Commercial Finance role. Experience of working in an online or retail company industry is also essential. You will be used to operating in a multi-currency environment and must have the ability to deal correctly with such transactions, from both an accounting/reporting perspective but also more importantly from a commercial perspective for agreements with suppliers and customers.

You will need to demonstrate a high level of professional acumen and gravitas and be able to demonstrate highly advanced Excel modelling skills and preferably experience of working with Hyperion Essbase. Strong communication and organisational skills are also a must.

To apply for the Senior Commercial Financial Analyst role, please follow the link to our Parent company careers site.