Senior Finance Analyst

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future.

We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries. We are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space for everyone to feel safe and valued and empowered with the right tools and support. 

Whether you want to pursue excellence in your specialism or broaden your experience with flexible roles across our business, you’ll be connected to a community of global experts championing you to be your best. Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

The role supports the Financial Analyst lead in providing financial analysis, financial data management and data extraction services to both internal and external stakeholders, reporting to the Financial Analyst lead (FAL).

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the FAL with providing financial data and analysis to management to steer decision making
• Develop financial models in Alteryx or Microsoft Excel to efficiently present information from projects, financial accounts, performance analyses, trends, and key performance indicators along with intelligent commentary and direction where possible
• Provide financial information to support bids, external publications and national statistics
• Assist with financial analysis when needed with ad hoc projects including new business initiatives and potential acquisitions
• Work directly with Unit, Regional and Practice managers to provide customised financial data and analysis to support business decisions
• Assist with competitor analysis, with findings used to implement best practices and challenge Group strategy
• Support the FAL to scale up and roll out existing financial analysis models across the Group hierarchy
• Support the FAL to ensure the data held in financial systems is complete and accurate. Work with the data owners to implement checks and controls to maintain data integrity
• Provide data cleansing services to support data owners with maintaining data integrity
• Extract raw data from systems by formulating and executing queries using software data extraction tools
• Provide data extracts to auditors and other external stakeholders where data is being analysed by a 3rd party
• Support the FAL to enforce data protection policies ensuring data is adequate, relevant and not excessive
• Requests from stakeholders internal and external should be reviewed to ensure data protection is not compromised

Essential Candidate Requirements:

• Education Qualification- M com / MBA (full time) / Semi-qualified CA from reputed institute.
• Strong analytical ability with effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluent English (both written and verbal)
• Conversant in the use of Microsoft products and experience in other ERP systems 
• Proven ability to produce timely and accurate reports for compliances to tight deadlines. 
• Strong analytical ability with effective communication 
• Flexible to work with changing environment

As a proudly employee-owned business, we’re here to benefit our clients, our communities and each other. Our shared success enables us to invest in creating a platform for everyone to feel safe and valued, empowered with the right tools and right support, in a place where fairness and integrity run deep.

Flexible working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• 90 calendar days paid maternity leave
• Competitive annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance