Senior Financial Modeller

Location Surrey
Discipline: Finance & Strategy
Job type: Permanent
Contact email: ari@weareedenbrook.com
Job ref: J4988
Published: 27 days ago
Edenbrook are currently recruiting a Senior Financial Modeller. The chosen candidate will lead the enhancement of existing Financial Planning models in Anaplan, including being the key SME to leverage Anaplan functionality capabilities to transform the financial reporting, MI and integrated forecasting. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Run the Financial Planning and Forecasting model; delivering an agile, ‘best in class’ solution to defined timescales. • Review and deliver improvements to process design, usability, efficiency, adaptability to business developments and the robustness of our Anaplan model. • Identify and prioritise enhancements and developments to forecast methodologies, approach and projection patterns to suit changing business and regulatory needs. • Operate, and be guided and led, by a requirements backlog from key SMEs but with minimum supervision on end solution. Document and operate strong change control disciplines • Work with Business areas to ensure financial projection model suitably reflects underlying business assumptions and outcomes. • Assist commercial finance team in running regular forecast cycles in an efficient and accurate manner. • Support the development of creative and implementable solutions that will lead to an agile and fast-moving CFO function. • Understand the end-to-end forecasting solution from core data sources, projection assumptions and model methodologies to P&L, balance sheet, cashflow and solvency outputs. • Work closely with, train, support and develop users of the financial models; sharing best practice, knowledge, processes and providing effective cover on tasks. The ideal candidate should have: • Qualified accountant with insurance / financial services background • Academic background, big 4 trained/experience a preference • Significant experience of Anaplan financial modelling mandatory. Experience of Tableau & Databricks helpful but not essential. • Experience of efficient data structuring.