Location
Bristol
Department
Finance
Closing Date
14 Jan 2025

About The Role

Motability Operations are currently recruiting for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our team in Bristol on a full-time, permanent basis. You will be a senior analyst within the Finance MI Team at the forefront of our data transformation initiatives, translating data into meaningful insight to inform decision making within Finance and across the organisation.
 
In this role, you will:
  • Act as a senior within the Finance MI team, supporting capability development of the broader team and take a lead on reporting design/production requirements which may then be passed to other members of the team for routine maintenance.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders (within finance and across the business) to understand reporting requirements and translating them into impactful reports, increasingly moving our reporting estate into a digital self-serve framework (including but not limited to Power BI).
  • Helping to educate and train team members on best practice techniques/tools to support analysis and reporting, working with the Technology division as required to ensure underpinning infrastructure is appropriate, robust and maintained.
  • You will be recognised as the ‘go-to’ expert for relevant analysis and reporting, particularly where advanced tools/techniques are required.
  • Deputise for the Finance MI Manager when required.
The team are required to design, develop and maintain reporting for a variety of stakeholders (internal and external), the core focus is around corporate reporting and financial MI. We pride ourselves on ensuring that the information that we provide is accurate and helps inform decision making.
 
Additionally, you will have the chance to:
  • Conduct Finance and Executive reporting, including the Company Performance Report (CPR), Benchmarks, Executive Dashboards and Bespoke reporting, by required deadlines.
  • Maintain existing reporting catalogues and ensure no single points of failure.
  • Support in the development of new reporting, interpretation of data and presentation of MI to stakeholders.
  • Ad-hoc reporting, project work, analysis and control processes as required by the business.

About You

You should be an advanced Excel user with expert knowledge of visualization tools like Power BI and awareness of transformational techniques such as Power Query. Additionally, you should have experience in maintaining and enhancing reporting frameworks, with the ability to distil data into actionable insights. Excellent attention to detail and strong analytical skills are essential. You should also be an effective communicator with the ability to prioritize tasks to ensure deadlines are met. Being resourceful and eager to develop skills, as well as being a collaborative team player, are important qualities for this role.
 
Minimum criteria:
  • You will need IT proficiency in Microsoft 365 products (Power Query, Power BI, Excel and SharePoint)
  • Have confidence in data manipulation
  • Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

  • We find solutions
  • We drive change
  • We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers.  It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:

  • An annual discretionary bonus
  • 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
  • Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
  • Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
  • Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
  • Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)

As well as financial benefits, our staff's health and well-being are very important to us, so we also offer:

  • 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
  • Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Free access to healthcare apps, such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP
  • Funded health screening for over 50s
  • 1 day per year to volunteer – Staff can support a local charity or do a sponsored event whilst being paid for it
  • Access to our fully accessible company allotment – Where we grow our own produce for local charitable organisations
  • Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office

We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include;

  • Dental Insurance
  • Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner 
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Charitable giving

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.  We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date. 

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