The FP&A Analyst primary responsibility is to support the FP&A Group reporting requirements, including monthly & dashboard reporting, updating projections, and business partnering for two of the operational assets. The role will provide commercial analytical data insights, which focus on the on short and long-term financial planning and analysis to measure and forecast the future business performance, ensuring alignment of these against the commercial objectives and project activities.
The Commercial Analyst will work collaboratively with the finance accounting team to collate, analyse and understand the business unit operational and financial outputs, to carry out data integrity checks, identify patterns, trends, opportunity, and risks.
The role will be responsible for financial modelling, including maintaining our cloud-based budgeting & forecasting system, to measure and forecast impacts of financial transactions and corporate development activity and provide reports on complex analytical findings, highlighting KPIs and recommendations to meet business objectives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Given the fast pace and cyclical demand, it is important that you already have an understanding of the workings of a finance department and be driven to succeed.
- Support the FP&A team in preparation of monthly results and reporting material.
- Take ownership of dashboard reporting which will including within-month metrics
- Working closely with the accounting team and the operational business leads in providing commercial insight into the performance of two of our plants.
- Supporting the plant teams in the annual budget process, which includes resource planning.
- Guiding the plant finance and operational teams through the quarterly reforecasting process, in addition to live identification of risks and opportunities.
- Scenario analysis modelling for the plants and overall support in their commercial decisions.
- Establish themselves as an expert user of our budgeting and forecast system (Adaptive Insights) and Power BI, to the extent they can enhance existing output and support other users.
- Ad hoc analysis as required by the business and Group FP&A, motivated to improve the information available to the business for decision making.
Systems
- Proficient with MS Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience of Adaptive Insights strongly desirable
- Use of Power BI/ other data visualisation tools highly desirable
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory duties.
Qualifications & Experience
In order to thrive in the role as an FP&A Commercial Analyst here at enfinium, we would expect you to have working experience in most of the following areas:
- Experience of working in a finance team.
- Proven experience in taking active accountability for own workload.
- Proven experience of working with all levels of an organization, including providing credibility to senior management.
- Proven successful track record of financial analysis, budgetary control.
- Strong modelling experience (scenario analysis a bonus).
- Qualified inc. newly qualified (CIMA/ ACA/ ACCA).
- Prior industry experience (waste-to-energy and/or energy more broadly) beneficial but not required.
Competencies
- Strong quantitative analytical skills.
- Interest in business and finance.
- Good written and spoken communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders with varying financial backgrounds.
- Problem solving – ability to identify and resolve questions through analysis of data and to communicate the outcome.
- Aptitude for using systems and technology.
- Takes the initiative/ self-starter.
- Ability to work collaboratively with a one team approach.
Work Environment
The normal setting for this job is an office environment, although the jobholder may be required to undertake some travel to fulfill their job role. The jobholder will be required to use motor co-ordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) most of the workday. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job