Job Title: Finance Analyst
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 9 months
Salary: £32,339
Working Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday
Location: Speke, Liverpool (Hybrid)

For your application to be considered please attach a current CV and cover letter.

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Why Riverside?

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive pay & generous pension
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays (Full Time Equivalent)
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits
  

The difference you will make as an Analyst

The role holder will undertake routine financial analysis to support the provision of business insight for effective operational activity and financial decision making.

You will also manage internal customer relationships effectively and signpost customers to other services within the Department to ensure they can efficiently access the service they require, and ensure that the business has robust financial data by reviewing and validating its integrity and quality

About you

We are looking for someone with:

• Partly or fully CCAB/CIMA qualified or equivalent
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to carry out financial planning, analysis and reporting
• Ability to work with complex information to identify trends and patterns
• An understanding of financial control
• Ability to show initiative, propose solutions to issues identified and take ownership of tasks.
  

Job Profile

Accountabilities or “What You Have to Do”

• Perform routine financial planning, analysis and reporting to support the preparation of actuals performance reporting, budgets and forecasts.
• Provide financial insight analysis, including the translation of routine financial data, identifying trends, patterns and anomalies.
• Ensure financial performance variances are monitored and tracked to provide the business with current financial information.
• Undertake modelling, scenario planning, business case preparation and option appraisal to support decision making and business performance.
• Ensure that the business has robust financial data by reviewing and validating its integrity and quality.
• Input into statutory, regulatory or other external reporting as directed, (either specific to the business area or corporate).
• Manage internal customer relationships effectively and signpost customers to other services within the Department to ensure they can efficiently access the service they require.
• Respond to routine or basic queries from internal customer and stakeholders, ensuring that the response is timely and compliant with the relevant control processes and frameworks.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
• Ensure that all data protection requirements are met in accordance with Group policy, procedures and statutory requirements.
• Ensure that health and safety requirements are met in accordance with Group policy, procedures and statutory requirements.
• Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required to support the effective operation of the service.
  

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Partly or fully CCAB/CIMA qualified or equivalent
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to carry out financial planning, analysis and reporting
• Ability to work with complex information to identify trends and patterns
• An understanding of financial control
• Ability to show initiative, propose solutions to issues identified and take ownership of tasks.
• Ability to work flexibly to meet business requirements
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure, deliver to strict deadlines
• and manage conflicting priorities
• Customer focused with excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work
• at all levels within the business
• Commercially aware with a focus on continuous improvement
• Comfortable with working in a matrix environment with a range of stakeholders.