Senior Finance Analyst (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

At Moorepay, we're on a journey to strengthen our finance capability, improve insight-led decision making and support the continued growth of the business.

We're looking for a commercially minded Senior Finance Analyst to join our Finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This is an exciting opportunity for a part-qualified or newly-qualified accountant who enjoys combining strong financial reporting with insightful analysis and business partnering.

Working closely with the Finance Business Partner and CFO, you will play a key role in delivering accurate month-end reporting, supporting budgeting and forecasting activities, and providing the financial insight that helps drive business performance. You'll also contribute to ongoing finance transformation initiatives, helping improve reporting, processes and controls across the function.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to work closely with senior finance leadership and gain exposure to a broad range of financial, commercial and strategic activities. You’ll play a visible role in helping the business understand its performance, improve decision-making and continue its finance transformation journey.

Key Responsibilities

Delivering High Quality Financial Reporting:

• Supporting the production of accurate and timely monthly management accounts and KPI reporting.
• Owning key aspects of the month-end close process, ensuring reporting deadlines are met.
• Preparing insightful variance analysis and commentary to explain business performance.
• Maintaining robust balance sheet reconciliations and financial controls.

Turning Data into Insight:

• Analysing financial and operational data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Producing meaningful analysis that supports decision-making across the business.
• Delivering reporting and ad hoc analysis for senior finance and business stakeholders.

Supporting Planning and Performance:

• Assisting with budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning activities.
• Maintaining and enhancing financial models and reporting tools.
• Supporting scenario modelling and performance analysis to aid strategic decision-making.

Strengthening Revenue Reporting and Financial Control:

• Supporting the integrity and accuracy of revenue reporting.
• Investigating and resolving financial discrepancies in partnership with operational and commercial teams.
• Helping ensure strong governance and financial controls are maintained across reporting activities.

Driving Continuous Improvement:

• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting and controls.
• Supporting finance transformation and reporting improvement initiatives.
• Helping build more efficient, scalable and data-driven ways of working across the finance team.

• Part-qualified or newly-qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant.
• Experience within a finance, management accounting or financial analysis role.
• Strong experience supporting month-end reporting and financial analysis.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large volumes of data.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate financial information into meaningful business insight.
• Experience using ERP, reporting or planning systems. (Experience of NetSuite or Anaplan would be preferable)
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Experience supporting budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Exposure to finance transformation, process improvement or reporting automation initiatives.

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.