Company Overview
Our client is a high-growth, private equity-backed business that operates on a global scale, offering innovative financial solutions. They are committed to driving data-driven decision-making, optimising financial performance, and fostering career growth. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious financial analyst to accelerate their career.
  
The Role
In this role, you will analyse high-volume transaction data, monitor financial performance, and provide insights that drive business growth. You will collaborate closely with various teams to enhance financial reporting, margin optimisation, and reconciliation processes.
  
Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor financial transactions to identify trends, anomalies, and irregularities.
• Analyse transaction data to detect fraud, errors, or unusual patterns.
• Develop and implement tools to improve transaction monitoring efficiency.
• Perform in-depth variance analysis and provide timely financial insights.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools for financial performance tracking.
• Monitor and analyse transaction margins to ensure profitability.
• Identify factors impacting margins and collaborate with teams to address them.
• Reconcile settlement reports and billing data, ensuring accuracy and resolving discrepancies.
• Assist in preparing budgets and forecasts, analysing business impact scenarios.
• Support month-end reporting, journal preparation, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare and distribute weekly financial summaries highlighting key trends.
• Collaborate with sales teams to provide data-driven insights for pricing strategies.

The Candidate
The ideal candidate must have:

• 3-4 years’ experience in financial analysis.
• A strong commercial background in a high-growth, high-complexity business.
• Demonstrated experience in hands-on analysis of high-volume, complex data sets.
• Proven experience with variance analysis and the ability to clearly articulate drivers of margin and performance variances.
• Proficiency in developing reports and dashboards using BI platforms and tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Proven ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines while having excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

If you are an ambitious analyst seeking a high-growth environment where you can make an impact, we encourage you to apply by clicking on the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Bec Close via rclose@sharpandcarter.com.au