Finance Analyst

Position Title: Finance Analyst Duration: Permanent Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week on site in Solihull The Role * This is an exciting role for someone with a passion for financial and is looking for their next challenge with a growing iconic brand. * This role will support all aspects of the business case model, covering investment, BoM, Engineering, selling prices, sales volumes in a number of international markets, manufacturing and distributor costs, to ensure accuracy and compliance with company policies and procedures. * The ideal candidate will have a strong background in accounting, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders. Duties/Responsibilities * Gathering data for investment spending, Engineering hours and third party spent, tooling and capital * Identifying the financial status of businesses cases by comparing achieved results with financial plans and goals * Producing reports for monthly analysis, actuals v budget/forecasts on projects * Analysing financial results and identifying trends to help improve the financial status of a project * Preparing reports on financial revenue and expenditures and communicating the insights of the reports to business management * Support Commercial in cost allocation within dealer / distributor model. * Monthly reporting – presenting to the project team * Reconciliations to intangible assets being created. Personal Specification * Accounting qualification (AAT essential, ACA. CIMA, ACCA Desirable) * Excel – (advanced user within finance and project work) * Knowledge of R&D Engineering and understanding of the deliverable’s gateways required to hit completion of projects * Experience in project costing * Strong relationship-building and communication * Strong cross-department liaison * Good working knowledge of SAP * Ideally Automotive industry experience