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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates strong financial analysis capabilities, including expertise in financial reporting, reconciliation, and performance metrics. Proficient in advanced Excel and familiar with BI tools, ensuring accurate data interpretation and effective communication of financial insights.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Financial ReportingAdvanced Excel SkillsFinancial Audit ExperienceP&L Accounting KnowledgeData Reconciliation
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Hard Skills
Financial AnalysisCost AnalysisBudgetingForecastingData InvestigationFinancial ModelingVariance AnalysisProfitability AnalysisAccrual AccountingOperational Metrics
Soft Skills
Organizational SkillsAnalytical ThinkingCommunication SkillsProblem-SolvingAttention to Detail
Tools & Technologies
NetSuitePower QuerySQLBI ToolsAccounting Software
Certifications & Qualifications
ACCA Financial ReportingDipIFR
Industry Keywords
Commercial FinanceFinancial Reporting StandardsBig Four Audit ExperienceTech Finance ExperienceOperational Drivers
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesERPSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Analyse product and commercial performance by connecting revenue, direct costs, margins and operational drivers
- Reconcile billing, operational dashboards and accounting data
- Investigate discrepancies and maintain consistent financial metric definitions
- Compare actual results with budgets, forecasts and prior periods
- Explain material variances and identify actions or areas for investigation
- Work with accountants and functional owners to verify cost completeness, accruals, allocations and expense-recognition timing
- Analyse product cost drivers, unit costs and profitability
- Maintain clear and traceable assumptions and allocation methods
- Build and improve recurring reports and dashboards
- Define data requirements with Analytics and IT
- Reduce manual data collection and reconciliation
- Prepare management presentations and ad hoc analyses
- Follow up on discrepancies and strengthen controls over financial reporting data
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in financial audit, financial reporting, FP&A or commercial finance
- Strong accounting knowledge across P&L, balance sheet and accruals
- Experience working directly with accountants
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with large datasets, reconciliations or financial models
- Ability to trace figures to source data, test assumptions and explain discrepancies
- Ability to turn business questions into clear metrics, reporting requirements and management commentary
- Ability to organise recurring work independently and implement practical improvements
- Fluent English
- Nice to have: senior-level Big Four audit experience
- Nice to have: product or commercial finance experience in tech
- Nice to have: familiarity with NetSuite or another major ERP
- Nice to have: BI tools, Power Query or SQL
- Nice to have: ACCA Financial Reporting or DipIFR
- Valuation experience welcome when backed by strong accounting and practical data investigation skills
Benefits
Comp & perks- Remote-first, trust-based culture
- Work from the place that works best for you
- No mandatory office days or attendance trackers
- Offices or coworking spaces available in some locations, with employee choice
- Flexible working hours; no fixed 9-to-5 schedule
- Birthday holiday
- 10 personal days each year
- Seven sick days without paperwork
- Extra time off during Christmas and New Year
- Role-specific learning opportunities and covered professional events
- Financial bonuses for marriage and welcoming a new baby
- Fully covered team offsites several times a year
- Tools and hardware needed to perform the work
- Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
