Finance Analyst

This role acts as the key interface for all Digital and Technology (D&T) and Finance departments for expenses and analysis requirements.
This role is responsible for ensuring that the spend by these departments is accurately and timely recorded in the monthly management accounts and tracked against budget. Furthermore, the role will work closely with the departments to prepare monthly forecasts to be included in the group forecast, maintaining IT contracts register to track expenses against each contract and making sure that expenses are accurately booked and prepare variance reasoning for each contract and forecast.
The role will require regular attendance in department meetings and will provide advice, feedback, and analysis on the spend to both Finance and the departments and work in collaboration with relevant department heads, will also assist in preparing the annual budgets.
In additional to the reporting this role will also be a key part of the Procurement approval process ensuring that all requisitions are raised with the appropriate documentations.
As part of the tracking of D&T costs this role will also be responsible for understanding and updating a cost allocation model for an internal IT platform developed with D&T to apportion costs across users of the platform.