Commercial Financial Analyst

COMMERCIAL FINANCIAL ANALYST / MANCHESTER / HYBRID/ £55,000-£60,000 PLUS BENEFITS

About Team / Role

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovative across all of our strategic initiatives.

WEX is currently seeking an experienced, self-driven Commercial Financial Analyst, in our FP&A team based in Manchester. As our Financial Analyst, you'll support the team in the delivery of forecasting, budgeting and reporting. Ensuring delivery of quality financial analysis modelling and support to key stakeholders to support key business decision making that will ultimately improve business performance

What's on offer?

• Highly competitive salary between £55,000-£60,000 (dependant on experience)
• Annual company bonus
• 40-hour week - Monday to Friday
• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our Manchester offices)
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Private Medical
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays - with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing

How you will make an impact

• Support the Senior Commercial Financial Analyst in the preparation of management reporting packs Ownership and Delivery of monthly and quarterly reporting packs for international travel, aligning with Corporate deliverables
• Provide monthly financial Projection and tracking of all Opportunities and Risks
• Preparation of monthly OPEX reports to cost centre owners
• Prepare monthly Corporate deliverable schedules and bridges in accordance with timetable
• Be finance Business Partner to cost centre owners
• Support finance leadership in analysis and modelling for budgets and forecast across P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flows
• Calculate sales commissions for accrual and payment
• Take lead role in preparation of OPEX budgets and forecasts
• Manage the budget and forecast process for all headcount across the international travel business
• SME for all financial planning and reporting software including TM1, HFM and Anaplan databases
• Ensure all financial systems are updated in accordance to Group deliverables
• Support the FP&A Manager and senior finance team as required

What you'll bring

• You will be newly qualified with the appropriate accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or a finalist working towards an appropriate accounting qualification
• Have previous experience in an FP&A role
• Previous experience of working in high volume transactional business that have complex billing systems
• Firm understanding of customer segmentation
• Have a curious and analytical mind-set
• Good communication skills both verbal/written
• Able to prioritise work, and hit deadlines
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with an attention to detail
• Advanced excel skills (lookups, pivot tables etc)
• Experience of analytic tools such as UI Path and Alteryx preferred
• Able to communicate complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders
• A self-starter with ambition to grow and develop

What's next?

If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our new Commercial Financial Analyst then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/ belief, sexual orientation, or age

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately it is not possible to respond to each one individually, applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted within one week of applications.

We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received by WEX will be treated as a gift and will not be eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by the Talent Acquisition team.