Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
The Role
This is a newly created role following Fastmarkets separation from a FTSE 250 PLC. The role will be responsible for running the core process to enable revenue recognition in line with IFRS 15 as well as providing robust explanations on variances to forecast and suggesting process improvements. The role requires strong data analysis skills and excel experience.
Principal Accountabilities
- Extracting data from source systems including Salesforce and Netsuite
- Preparing IFRS revenue waterfall for all entities to ensure accurate month end reporting
- Detailed order level variance analysis of actuals to expectations.
- Variance analysis to prior periods, forecast and budget
- Presentation of analysis to Senior Management including the CFO
- Lead the year end audit of revenue and liaison with external auditors
- Identify and track to resolution – System, Netsuite and Salesforce data issues
- Continual optimisation of month end process
KEY INTERFACES
- Commercial Finance
- Client services team
- External auditors
- Finance Leadership team including CFO
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Experience
- Almost or newly qualified chartered accountant
- Intermediate / Advanced excel skills (Lookups, Sumifs, Index match and if/or/and combinations).
- Experience with large data sets and presenting on a summary basis
- Experience of multi-entities and currency conversation (desirable)
- Understand IFRS 15 revenue recognition principles (desirable)
- Netsuite or SAP experience (desirable)
Skills and knowledge
- Strong stakeholder management skillset and a natural collaborator
- Can challenge current practices and think innovatively in executing work
- Able to work independently and manage multiple tight deadlines
- Able to solve problems with creative and pragmatic ideas and uses sound judgements based on risk assessment
- Attention to detail, ability to rapidly understand end to end business operations and inherent risks
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.