About the Role
Winn Group is a driving force in the North East, a market leading business delivering nationwide accident management and rehabilitation services for victims of non fault accidents. The group mission is to be the best one stop shop under the brands Winn Solicitors, On Hire and On Insurance.
An outstanding regional success story and carrying a high profile nationally, the business has exhibited strong trading and profit growth in recent years with most recently reported turnover and profit touching £200m and £40m respectively.
To help support this growth the business is recruiting a Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to work on a full time basis. The person will be based at Group Head Office in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, which is readily accessible by all forms of transport.
This represents an outstanding opportunity to develop a long term career in a growing business where achievement is rewarded with progression that will be capped only by ability.
The primary focus of the role involves developing the operating and financial plan required to achieve management’s strategic goals.
Providing data insights, you will help drive decision making within the business, minimising risk and capturing new opportunities to optimise performance.
To do so effectively will require a broad understanding of both accounting and business operations. As a result, you will work with all areas of the business including operations and sales.
At a detailed level, the responsibilities will include:
Financial planning (budget, forecast and long term plans) with variance analysis
Business case modelling
Financial analysis to support decision making
Assessment of working capital funding requirements with cash flow forecasting
Assisting with implementation of ERP software
Potential candidates should be fluent in the accounting basics, potentially ACA/ACCA or CIMA qualified, and able to exhibit some relevant experience. The team is very close knit and the broader business has a family feel. Fitting into this collaborative culture and displaying the aptitude to go the extra mile will be equally important.
Qualities you will ideally be able to illustrate will include
Experience in planning and budgeting
IT literacy in Microsoft Excel, Word & PowerPoint combined with some standard accounting packages
The ability to extract meaningful information from large data sets
Business acumen allied to effective questioning skills
Attention to detail and understanding the bigger picture
On offer is a competitive salary with an annual bonus and flexible working hours. Details will be provided to shortlisted candidates.