Financial Analyst

Job Description

On behalf of EANI, we are looking for a Financial Analyst (Inside IR35/PAYE) for a 6 month contract based In Belfast 2-3 days per week in the office.

EA was established on 1 April 2015 under the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014. EA is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Education (DE) and the Department for the Economy (DfE), responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective primary and secondary education and educational services are available to meet the needs of children and young people, and for ensuring the provision of efficient and effective youth services.

As a Financial Analyst, your main responsibilities will be:

* Manage the Special Schools business area - getting a deep understanding of the actual spend to better inform forecasts.
* Analysis of general ledger transactions - getting a deeper understanding of the actual spend, analysing and undertaking trend analysis. Correcting miscoding transactions (and getting to the initial cause), looking at manual journals, their values and ascertaining the relevance. Potentially even looking at purchase orders, their value and bringing this into forecasts.
* Analysis of the General Ledger can also pick up prepayments and potential accruals.
* Analysis of agency staff, to better inform a forecast, and accruing outstanding charges.
* Input into salary forecasting, updating for actual spend and forecasting for future months and identifying potential future savings.
* Development of our current suite of reports for our business areas, to include a standardisation of reports across areas, especially a monthly DMT report.
* Deeper analysis of substitution costs and legal cases.
* Development of monthly financial packs - to include actual spend to date and forecasts for the remainder of the year - automating the process as far as possible.

Essential:

* Qualified or Part Qualified Accountant
* Financial Background
* Experience in Financial analysis
* Strong Excel and Modelling skills
* Analysing large datasets
* Spend analysis
* Public sector experience
* Experience in developing Repotting Standardisation

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

DE&I Commitment

EANI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant / Commitment

EANI guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".