Exclusive Partnership with RHS Wisley Gardens

I am delighted to be exclusively partnering with RHS Wisley Gardens to recruit a Senior Finance Analyst on a permanent basis.

About RHS

For more than 200 years, the RHS has been a power for good, influencing everything from window boxes to landscaped gardens worldwide and creating places and experiences for every visitor to enjoy.

Client Details

We want people who can influence and implement our mission. To connect more people to plants, share the health benefits of gardening, raise awareness of our scientific and horticultural expertise, and share a lifelong gardening adventure with people of all ages and backgrounds. If you're alive with the possibility of growing a career with us through the positive power of gardening, our future is together.

Description

The Senior Finance Analyst plays a key role in supporting the operational teams to deliver their financial targets and budgets. You will provide your business partners with robust analysis and proposed solutions that drive conversations in operational team meetings, identifying efficiencies and constructively challenging existing practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide finance business partnering for key functional stakeholders including monthly P&L support in line with the RHS month end timetable, alongside preparation of month end commentary, providing insights and suggestions for remedial activities.
• Focus on providing overall financial insights into business drivers in order to deliver and develop the RHS strategic objectives and annual budget.
• Support the development of annual budgets and forecasts. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather inputs and validate assumptions.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of financial data across systems and reports, implementing improvements to reporting processes and promoting automation initiatives.
• Provide key analytical financial and KPI reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Support stakeholders by providing variance analysis and overall financial modelling to drive business decisions.
• Challenge unusual P&L movements, forecasts and fluctuations to ensure forecast and actual financial performance is robust.
• Support business stakeholders to ensure the correct finance processes are adopted including Capital Request and business cases.
• Use sound business acumen to assess new ideas, both from an operational and financial perspective and then be able to articulate the impacts with clear and meaningful recommendations.
• Provide support and detail for key discussion points for Senior Finance Business Partner when meeting with relevant Directors, with a willingness to step up in meetings if required.
• Act as the finance ambassador to build and maintain partnerships to develop strong networks across the area of responsibility.