Financial Analyst – FP&A

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🕒 May 6

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ALU

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51 - 200 employees

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

Retail • Design • eCommerce

ALU is a company specializing in developing and providing innovative product display solutions for various industries, including apparel, sportswear, cosmetics, and department stores. Their offerings include products like the Autopole, Insula, Plot, Tondoquadro, and others designed for efficient and aesthetically pleasing presentation and organization. ALU also engages in creating temporary showrooms and pop-ups, such as their collaboration with Nike Jordan in Paris, and virtual showrooms. Based in Italy, they emphasize modern design and functionality, aiming to enhance the customer experience in retail environments.

📋 Description

• Own the monthly COGS reporting cycle: extract, reconcile, and analyze all direct programme costs against budget, tracking variances by cost category, programme, and campus. • Maintain the COGS master schedule, ensuring all direct costs, faculty fees, programme delivery costs, student-facing expenses, and contracted services are correctly coded, allocated, and reconciled to the NetSuite ledger. • Prepare monthly COGS variance commentary for review by the Associate Director, highlighting key drivers, timing differences, and cost risks. • Monitor cost per student and cost per programme metrics, flagging anomalies and trends for management attention. • Drive identification of cost optimisation opportunities across programmes. • Maintain the overhead tracker across all departments: HR, Technology, Finance, Facilities, Marketing, and Administration. • Produce monthly departmental overhead reports with budget vs actuals, variance analysis, and narrative summaries for departmental leads and senior management. • Reconcile overhead expenditure to NetSuite ledger entries monthly; identify and investigate mispostings, timing differences, and unbudgeted spend. • Track committed spend and accruals to ensure completeness of the monthly overhead picture; maintain the accruals schedule. • Challenge departmental spend against approved budgets and enforce cost discipline through proactive engagement with budget owners. • Prepare and maintain all core supporting schedules for the monthly and year-end close: prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, depreciation, and capitalized costs. • Ensure all schedules are fully reconciled to the NetSuite trial balance and delivered to the Finance Operations Director within the agreed close timeline (by close +5). • Maintain the fixed asset register: additions, disposals, depreciation runs, and year-end reconciliation. • Support the Finance Operations Director in providing audit-ready schedules during statutory and donor audits. • Proactively identify schedule discrepancies and reconcile items; investigate and resolve with the Finance Operations team. • Support the annual budgeting cycle: consolidate departmental cost submissions, validate assumptions, flag outliers, and prepare the cost budget for review by the Associate Director. • Maintain rolling overhead and COGS forecasts, updating for actuals, known changes, and management decisions each month. • Build and maintain cost scenario models: sensitivity analysis on key cost drivers (headcount, programme volumes, exchange rates) to support institutional planning. • Provide cost-side inputs to the Senior Financial Analyst for integration into the consolidated financial model and Board reporting. • Support business case preparation: model cost implications of new programmes, operational changes, and investment proposals. • Prepare the cost performance section of the monthly management accounts: a structured, clearly narrated view of COGS, overheads, and total expenditure vs budget. • Deliver cost variance analysis for consolidation by the Senior Financial Analyst into the monthly Board pack and management reporting cycle. • Produce the monthly expenditure dashboard: overhead burn rate, COGS efficiency, headcount cost trends, and key cost ratios. • Contribute supporting data and cost schedules to donor reports prepared by the Senior Financial Analyst, ensuring budget vs actuals reconciliation for grant-funded programmes. • Translate cost performance into actionable insights for management decision-making. • Track capital expenditure against approved budgets: maintain the CAPEX schedule, monitor spend against authorizations, and flag overspend risks. • Reconcile CAPEX actuals in NetSuite to the project register; liaise with the Finance Operations Director on capitalization, depreciation, and disposal treatments. • Prepare CAPEX progress reports for senior management, highlighting spend status, pending commitments, and forecast to completion. • Extract AR ledger, grant-coded transactions, deferred income data; run saved searches and exports • Primary working environment for all trackers, reconciliations, dashboards, and reporting files • Working knowledge query writing for data extraction and reconciliation (advantage) • Extract billing, opportunity, and payment data; validate against NetSuite; support donor register • Format dashboards and reports for leadership and donor audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. • 3–5 years of experience with demonstrated experience in overhead tracking, cost variance analysis, and supporting schedule preparation. • Strong proficiency in Google Sheets and/or Excel: advanced formulas, pivot tables, and structured financial models. • Experience working with ERP systems (NetSuite experience is a strong advantage). • Solid understanding of management accounting principles: accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, cost allocation. • Detail-oriented with a disciplined approach to reconciliation and schedule accuracy. • Clear written communication: able to present cost findings in plain language for management. • Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CA, or equivalent) preferred. • Experience in education, non-profit, or international development financial environments. • Exposure to CAPEX management, project cost tracking, or fixed asset accounting. • Understanding of grant budget tracking and donor fund allocation (supporting role). • Audit or assurance background (added advantage)

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development • Zero-tolerance approach to violations of safeguarding