Do you enjoy being part of a team collaborating to deliver success?
Do you enjoy working developing budgeting and financial plans to achieve growth?
About our Team
The Centre of Excellence FPR&A team is a dynamic and collaborative group dedicated to providing critical financial insights and support to drive the company's strategic objectives. We develop and support the analytic technologies to provide our internal customers structured access to data that is timely, accurate, and actionable. We collaborate in a fast-paced environment, contributing to innovative solutions, and demonstrating meticulousness.
About the Role
In this role, you will be at the forefront of financial planning. budgeting and forecasting, analysis and reporting of direct costs for our largest business unit focused on scientific journals.
Responsibilities:
- Developing expectations based on actual performance trends. Expected changes in our strategy, and other business inputs. Prepare baseline forecast, overlay with expected changes, enter the final projections into our forecasting tools. Provide insights and commentary on variance analysis.
Reporting: Run specific queries and reports, reconcile data, and provide comprehensive analysis and support for key stakeholders.
Accounting: Calculate and prepare deferral and accruals journals.
Improving Continuously: Seek and implement continuous improvements in efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of service for systems under control.
Establishing support annual audits and ensure data integrity and consistency across all financial processes.
Requirements:
- Be analytical and good with MS Excel modeling capabilities to provide deep insights and resolve finance inquiries independently. Experience with manipulating large data sets, as well as ability to quickly learn new systems and tools.
Be proactive and motivated individual with a can-do mentality, ready to take on challenges in a complex and demanding environment. Curious by nature, striving for continuous improvement.
Have strong communication skills to clearly convey financial information to a range of stakeholders in our multi-national and multi-cultural environment.
Have working knowledge of MS excel – advanced user, Oracle Hyperion products and Smartview.
Have Professional Certification / Master’s (regular) in Finance, Accounting or related area. 6-8 years of experience in financial reporting, planning, and analysis, including providing commentaries.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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