Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Reporting to the Head of HR and the Compensation, Benefits & Payroll Manager, this is a high-profile and critical role, providing global compensation support for employees across multiple countries. You will be an experienced financial compensation analyst, able to hit the ground running and support the development of the global salary, bonus and incentive structures, manage the annual compensation budgeting and benchmarking process, and maintain the country-specific payscales.

This is an urgent requirement and so candidates with a long notice period cannot be considered.

Financial Analyst Responsibilities

Some of your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Data collection, role matching and related analysis of survey reports for global salary benchmarking survey submissions
• Support bi-annual global salary and performance review process including preparation of pay and pay inflation analyses, pay budgets, pay proposal materials, analysis of proposals, and implementation
• Provide recurring compensation metrics, data reporting and other analyses
• Monitor data integrity
• Manipulate, model, analyse and interpret large data sets, draw conclusions and create a compelling narrative to add value to compensation-related decisions
• Design, build and implement analytical models using people and market data to forecast costs and identify issues and impacts
• Provide data insights for REMCO
• Support with the calculations, analysis, and awarding of sales and bonus incentive programmes

Financial Analyst Rewards

In addition to a competitive salary the Reward Analyst will receive the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holiday
• EAP
• Cycle to work scheme
• Reduced gym membership and restaurant discounts
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities and career development opportunities

The Company

This organisation prides itself on its fun loving, diverse and engaging work culture. Employees are passionate about their roles and build a supportive environment around their colleagues. It is important that each member feels a part of a team and that they strive together towards one goal, having fun along the way.

Financial Analyst Experience

To be successful in this Financial Analyst role you will be a self-starter and a resilient character able to influence and present to senior stakeholders confidently and with strong data integrity. You will be numerically focused, technically astute and financially minded with experience of analysing and explaining how you have achieved the data result whilst being asked questions and be comfortable with numbers. You will be experienced at data cleansing, big data manipulation and data modelling. You will be experienced at the PDR process, gaining board sign-off and have experience of managing and analysing raw salary data for global roles, multiple geographies, and multiple currencies. You will be experienced at providing the narrative for senior leadership meetings around salary and financial accounting data and understand the different salary implications in different regions globally.

You must be educated to degree level (or equivalent) in finance or an equivalent STEM discipline and possess advanced MS Excel skills and MS Office and experience of Power BI is desirable. You must have previous experience in a financial reporting, analytics, accounting or payroll-related role and understand survey methodologies including job matching, reporting line and responsibilities. You must have strong business acumen and demonstrable experience of handling high volume projects and complex transactions efficiently and to tight deadlines. As the point of contact at all levels of the company for compensation enquiries, you must be able to push back with robust arguments for your decisions in areas such as inflation pay rises, standard pay rises, pay off-payscale, pensions etc.

Location

This role is based in Oxford, OX1 and is hybrid - with 3 days in the office, and 2 days working from home. Please note that there is no parking available. Best accessible via public transport, park & ride, cycle or walking. 

How to Apply for this Financial Analyst role

Please apply online with an up-to-date CV or send CV and cover letter to joanne@allen-associates.co.uk

Please note there will be an advanced MS Excel and Power Bi test to complete for the client as the initial interview stage and so please only apply if you are an advanced level user. 

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