Senior Financial Analyst

Company Description

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place. 

Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.  

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

Job Description

The Senior Financial Analyst will support timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting.

Job duties to include but are not limited to:
 

• Financial Reporting and Analysis: prepare analysis of consolidated financial information, ensuring accuracy and consistency, throughout the monthly reporting cycle. Maintain, run and check reports to extract system data in the format required for management reporting. Includes the preparation of monthly, quarterly and 6 monthly analysis for key stakeholders, Americas management teams. Responding to ad hoc requests for analysis as required.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: support the budgeting and forecasting process for each business unit, including preparing consolidated information and presentation of data to senior management. This includes dealing directly with cost center owners to forecast accurate costs.
• Strategy: Support the strategy process, providing financial analysis to the Business strategy team and prepare a P&L, balance sheet and cash flow for the five-year plan
• Analytics and Business Information: Support the divisional analytics strategy, making use of Oracle Planning, the financial reporting and planning system, and dashboards in Microsoft Power BI. Gaining familiarity with the mapping of financial data between systems will also be beneficial.
• Finance Systems, Projects and Continuous Improvement: complete various ad-hoc projects as required, including the opportunity to get involved in improving automation of data flows to enable key FP&A processes, such as using Oracle Planning or Power BI to consolidate reporting metrics. Drive efficiencies within Finance and wider business, including looking for opportunities to streamline reporting and forecasting activities. Improvements will range from implementing best practices in financial modelling in Excel to changing the use of systems and processes to improve speed, accuracy and flexibility of reporting and analysis
• Communication: maintain open and clear lines of communications between the business units. Maintain effective communication with leadership team members and senior stakeholders.
• Other tasks as assigned

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required. Prefer MBA or advanced accounting degree.

Experience: 5 or more years of experience 
 

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical skills, using historical financial information, strategic plan or forecast data. Record of delivering business performance improvement is a plus
• The ability to prepare and check suitable management reporting by utilizing business understanding
• Strong Excel skills (such as using SUMIFS, XLOOKUP and Power Pivot to analyze data)
• A conscientious approach to reporting with a strong attention to detail.
• Flexibility with a problem solving mindset.
• Self-motivated and a team player.
• Excellent communication skills and influencing skills. The position needs to work across all the business units and with senior stakeholders.
• Experience of dealing with large organizations and consolidations is an advantage.
• Comfortable working with different cultures.
• The ability and motivation to persistently prepare high quality financial planning, reporting and analysis.
• Particularly for new and ad hoc tasks, being able to quickly propose or decide how tasks could be completed effectively as there will not always be established processes.
• The ability to make effective, timely decisions in a complex global business, by sourcing and analyzing critical information. 
• Gaining an understanding and recognition of the