Senior FP&A Accountant in Prestwick

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There is an exciting opportunity to join Bellway, one of the UK’s largest house builders. Our Head Office located in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking to recruit a Senior FP&A Accountant to join the Group Finance Department.

The Role

The role of Senior FP&A Accountant will report to the Group Commercial Finance Director. The Senior FP&A Accountant plays a critical role in supporting the financial planning, analysis, and reporting processes for the business. This position is responsible for delivering accurate forecasts, budgets, and insightful analysis to drive strategic decision-making and improve financial performance.

Principal accountabilities of the role include:

• Support in the production and delivery of the existing suite of management reports, ensuring information is delivered accurately and on time.
• Continually look to challenge existing reporting solutions and develop innovative and insightful new reports and analysis.
• Assist in the expansion of the new data lake, ensuring new information is both accurate and available on-demand.
• Working cross-functional, support the rationalisation of reports across the business.
• Manage ad hoc data requests, ensuring that data is collected, analysed and reported accurately and efficiently.
• Partner with Heads of Department to provide expert support in the analysis and interpretation of data within their function.
• Whilst working with Heads of Department, identify and implement efficiencies relating to the reporting of information within their function.
• Support the Regional Chair to understand regional performance and underlying trends.
• Assist in the management and preparation of the Group Annual Budget.
• Work on ad hoc projects as required, working both as part of a team and also independently.
• Identify risks and develop solutions to enhance the control environment both within the FP&A department and the wider Group.
• Support in the integration of new reporting software as required, including the introduction of a new BI solution.

Experience

• Post qualification experience, working in a reporting role at mid-management level.
• Strong knowledge of VBA and / or SQL - Desirable.
• Experience of developing dashboards in BI tools such as Microsoft PowerBI - Desirable.

Qualifications and Training

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).

Skills and Aptitude

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, in particular Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience in developing and maintaining complex excel-based models.
• Methodical with a strong attention to detail.
• Focus on meeting deadlines, and will go the extra mile to ensure that compromises are not taken to achieve them.
• Enthusiastic, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to work cross functional to ensure the needs of all stakeholders are met.
• Strong commercial acumen.

The Role and Working Conditions

Willing to be flexible in respect to day to day duties and hours worked. Office based role with ad hoc travel as and when required. Please note this role is subject to a basic DBS and financial pre-employment checks.

In return we can offer you:

• Competitive salary.
• Competitive annual bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Access to discounts and benefits portal.
• ShareSave Scheme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Holiday Purchase Scheme.
• Earn and Learn Opportunities.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy if a large volume of applications are received.