Analyst (Finance)

Salary: Competitive

Hours: Mon-Fri 37.5hrs

Location: The VHQ, Crawley (with flexible remote working)

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: Friday, 25th June 21

Many of our staff at Virgin work flexibly and in many different ways, different core hours or remote working. Please talk to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we are happy to explore what's possible for the role.

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, we’re just as passionate as we’ve always been about becoming the most loved travel company. One thing we know for sure – this year has shown that when we combine our brand with the power of amazing people, we make something truly magical.

Virgin Atlantic is proudly flying, creating the same fabulous flight experience we’re famous for, and we’re busily laying the foundations for a profitable future. We know that the right people are key to creating success – so we’re looking for someone brilliant to join our Finance team and help us achieve our vision. Perhaps that’s you? We’d love to find out.

As our Finance Analyst here at Virgin Atlantic, you will provide financial insights and regular reporting to our business, supporting our agile approach enabling the business to appraise alternatives where needed.

You will be responsible for performance analysis, profit, and loss controls to support the business strategy, supporting in the development of the annual budgets and share month end forecasts. Using data analysis to produce a consolidated picture, for decision to be made for our leaders across the business.

Day to day

As our Finance Analyst, you will be responsible for the following activities:

Financial Management

• Assembles/Produces regular reporting and analysis e.g. at Month End, at Budget
• Develops insights from past performance and communicates into the teams via reporting
• Offers detailed insight into the forecast showing risks and opportunities
• Tracks cost performance and offers insight and controls into the business
• Recommends improved reporting, either progressing existing reports or developing new items
• Regular engagement with the Business to gain insight
• Ensures that teams understand their P&L responsibilities and offers support tools to assist

Financial Planning /Budgets
• Assembles annual budgets
• Gains business opinion and insight needed to build financial plans
• Provides updated forecasts, which play into the Long-Term Plan
• Liaises closely with Financial Controllers to manage timelines and requirements
• Assembles continuous list of opportunities and defines value therein, for planning purposes
• Work across finance to achieve alignment and understanding

Projects and Initiatives evaluation
• Analyses the financial impacts of key changes and decisions, offering clear insights from detailed financial models
• Provides regular reporting output on our projects so that the teams stay on track and take appropriate action
• Provides analysis for the financial content of the business case and change analysis, ensuring value is maximised
• Carries out investment appraisal analysis

Financial Control
• Offers finance support to the Business and establishes effective internal controls
• Works with Financial Accounting to improve processes and finance efficiency
• Work alongside all Financial Control functions to bring about a well-controlled environment
• Interpret results and communicate effectively to ensure controls are improved and embedded in the business

About you

Are you a strong communicator, with strong experience in financial modelling?

In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:

• Expertise in using Microsoft Excel and other software tools to develop and produce high quality financial models. Such models will be capable of gathering financial and non-financial data to identify problems or answer questions, and deliver robust, structured solutions that integrate with existing models and/or generate practical financial recommendations
• Comfortable analysing financial and non-financial data, using a multitude of formulas and other key functionality to review, interpret and summarise key messages. Once analysis performed, confident to present in a format that highlights key findings, actions and recommendations
• Capable of using Microsoft Powerpoint and other reporting tools to produce high quality financial slides, reports and decks that are capable of sharing important financial messages with a mixture of key financial and non-financial stakeholders
• Experience of partnering with financial and business stakeholders, possessing the inter-personal skills to build a network of contacts that will be both the input and recipient of key financial outputs from the Financial Planning team
• Proven ability to work at a fast pace, capable of working simultaneously on more than one task, and appreciative of the organisation through a corporate, enterprise-wide lens
• Desirable but not essential is system-based experience with TM1, and data visualisation tools such as Power BI and Tableau

If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
 

Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger

Virgin Atlantic are committed equal opportunities employers and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible applicants regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy and maternity. Diversity brings strength which is why we strive to provide an inclusive environment where individuality is celebrated, and we can ignite the potential of our forward-thinking mix of people.

Please be aware as part of our recruitment process we may look to use a variety of resourcing tools to help us understand your skills and experience in relation to the role you have applied for. These may include application questions, video interviews or online testing. Please feel free to contact us at recruitment@fly.virgin.com if there are any reasonable adjustments to our process that you would like us to consider, for example use of hearing loops, sign language interpreter etc. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if there are any issues preventing you from being at your best during your application or assessment process. Any issues raised after your assessment is completed or once a decision has been made will be too late for us to consider within our process.

You'll be assessed against our values for a selection of your interview process, learn more about them here: Our Values