Job Description
The Finance Analyst is to provide analytical, reporting, planning and compliance support to the Finance Business Partnering team within the Earth and Environment Business. The Finance Analyst will build trusted relationships with Finance Business Partners, Operations Executives and other functional groups in order to improve insight generation, simplification and effectiveness of reporting.
Responsibilities
Business performance reporting
- Build, deliver and maintain consistent, accurate and timely financial and operational reports for the business, using the best possible medium (Excel, Power BI, etc)
- Monitor and gain insight from exceptions reports to anticipate financial risk (e.g. margin erosion trend, missing sell rates, and projects approaching contracted value) and escalate issues to the appropriate teams
- Support the monitoring and control of operational expenditure, including liasing with functional teams within the wider WSP business (e.g. Workplace)
- Adopt a continuous improvement approach
Forecasting and Planning Support
- Support Finance Business Partners with data modelling for forecasting purposes as needed
- Quality check planning and forecasting information according to corporate and business group deadlines
- Consolidate planning inputs for review and enter into ERP
Compliance and control
- Collection, review and quality checking of project information to support the NI 52-109 (Canadian listing requirements) compliance checks , internal and external audits
Qualifications
- Experience of managing large and complex data sets
- Experience of report design and delivery
- Strong excel and business intelligence capability, coupled with good systems knowledge (e.g. large ERPs such as Oracle, SAP etc)
- Experience of project based environments.
- Good communication skills with an ability to consolidate complex data into a structured financial picture.
- Continuous improvement mindset
