Senior Finance Analyst

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Function: Finance

Contract: Full time - Permanent

Location: Pyms Lane, Crewe, CW1 3PL with flexible hybrid working

Bentley Motors is combining a world of luxury and progressive technology to embrace an electrified future. Join us as we embark on the most transformative phase in Bentley's history.

Purpose of the Role
Join the Finance team as a Senior Finance Analyst where you'll play a key role in providing support to the Purchasing function in Bentley, aiding the decision making process through various activities to include scenario modelling and evaluations of outputs, owning budgets and guiding stakeholders . Reporting into the Financial Controller - Purchasing your main responsibilities include;

• Business partnering across all areas of Purchasing to assist with achieving their material, investment and overhead cost targets
• Identifying risks and opportunities through the year to achieve the adjusted target and any adjusted company profit targets
• Feeding the output into the appropriate forecasts/budgets
• Assisting with Planning Round inputs
• Proactively engaging in streamlining current Purchasing and controlling processes
• Timely and accurate processing of designated month end tasks, ensuring understanding of any variances before the close of play on working day one
• Managing Material Cost and Supplier tooling annual and lifetime project budgets identifying Risks and Opportunities
• Reporting the weekly material cost movements for Cost control vehicles

About the Team
The Purchasing Finance team is responsible for steering the finances for the material cost of our current and future model lines including supplier tooling, ensuring that all cost and investment targets are achieved. Active in forecasting, budgeting planning and risk and opportunity management, achieved through collaboration with key stakeholders in Purchasing, manufacturing, R&D and Finance within Bentley and the wider VW group. As part of a dynamic, agile team, you will manage, develop and lead activities cross functionally.

About you - Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of financial accounting processes and skills, with an understanding of how business processes affect company financials
• An ability to process and understand the cause and impact of transactions
• An ability to model data and produce business models and analysis to support decision making
• An ability to effectively interface with areas of the business and present complex information to a variety of audiences
• A proven track record of effective working cross-functionally
• IT Skills - Advanced Excel and Office
• Experience using business planning tools e.g. Cognos
• Extensive knowledge and experience of enterprise resource planning systems e.g. SAP
• A year or more of PQE experience and hold an accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA

What Bentley Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• 35 days annual leave inclusive of UK bank holidays
• Progression pathways and programmes, mentoring, and study support opportunities available
• Optional car lease scheme with discounted access to brand new VW Group cars (VW, Seat, Skoda, Audi) up to every six months
• Health and life assurance benefits providing up to five times annual salary
• Annual salary reviews and competitive bonus scheme
• Contributory pension scheme - you put in 6% we put in 10%
• Access to a wide range of resources to support your health and well-being including an online GP, the choice to join BUPA health plans, a mental health counsellor, and onsite physio
• Paid volunteering days dedicated to community giving

The Bentley Campus
Our campus is going through an exciting transformation offering unrivalled facilities including green spaces, free parking, an onsite restaurant, coffee shops and Legends gym.

#BelongingAtBentley
Motivated to be the most diverse, inclusive luxury car company, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals are respected, valued, and empowered.

We firmly believe in equal opportunities for all, helping all colleagues thrive as their authentic selves and reach their highest potential. We believe that everyone, regardless of their background or beliefs, belongs at Bentley. Everyone is entitled to respect and dignity and we positively celebrate the differences between people.

Beyond100
Announced in 2020, Bentley's ground-breaking Beyond100 strategy targets sustainable luxury mobility leadership, reinventing every aspect of the business. Building on over two decades of forward-thinking, join us as Bentley moves towards a sustainable future.

Closing date: 16 October 2024