Senior Financial Analyst

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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 revenue performance reporting cycle: student fee revenue, collections rates, discount trends, deferred income movements, and receivables ageing. • Develop and maintain revenue intelligence dashboards tailored to senior management and Board audiences — translating complex data into clear performance narratives. • Track and analyse student cohort revenue trends, segmented by programme, campus, scholarship status, and payment modality. • Identify revenue risks and opportunities (collection gaps, billing anomalies, discount leakage) and present actionable recommendations to the Associate Director and VPF. • Monitor and report on collections performance against targets; provide weekly/monthly collections summaries to the Finance Operations team and leadership. • Partner with the Registrar and Enrolment teams to align financial forecasts with academic and student data, ensuring one coherent revenue picture. • Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts commentary and quarterly Board financial packs — ensuring narrative clarity, actionable insights, and variance explanations. • Conduct variance analysis and trend identification across revenue and expenditure lines; develop and present narratives for senior management and Board reporting. • Reconcile statutory financial statements with management accounts to ensure consistency between compliance reporting and internal performance data. • Support the Associate Director in preparing forward-looking analysis: investment cases, cost optimisation opportunities, and resource allocation recommendations. • Produce ad-hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling to inform strategic decisions, new programme launches, and funding proposals. • Own donor financial reporting end-to-end: prepare accurate, timely donor reports, ensuring transparency on fund receipt, allocation, and utilisation. • Partner with the Fundraising and Programme teams to track fund collections, expenses, and budget vs actuals per grant — reconciling financial records with donor commitments. • Develop new programme budgets for grant applications in collaboration with the Fundraising team, aligned with ALU's strategy and chart of accounts. • Review draft financial reports from the Data Analyst, add narrative and context, and finalise for submission under the Associate Director's oversight. • Serve as the relationship interface between the Finance team and Fundraising/Programme teams on grant compliance matters. • Co-lead the annual budgeting cycle with the Associate Director: facilitated departmental submissions, challenged assumptions, and consolidated institutional forecasts. • Maintain rolling revenue forecasts, integrating enrolment projections, collections assumptions, and pricing changes into forward-looking models. • Support sensitivity analysis and long-term sustainability modelling, contributing business judgment to technical models built by the Data Analyst. • Translate strategic priorities into financial targets and contribute to the institutional performance framework. • Act as a thought partner to academic and operational leaders on financial performance, surfacing risks and improvement opportunities in plain language. • Support in preparing Board and ExCo financial presentations, ensuring data accuracy, visual clarity, and strategic framing. • Partner with the Business Planning & Transformation teams to integrate financial KPIs into institutional performance dashboards and planning cycles. • Collaborate with the Finance Operations Director (FOD) to ensure smooth handoffs between operational transactions and management reporting. • Support external stakeholder reporting (Board, regulators, donors) with validated data and clear analysis.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. • 5–7 years of experience in financial management, FP&A, or management reporting — with demonstrated business partnering experience. • Strong financial reporting and analysis skills: variance analysis, management accounts, Board reporting. • Experience working with revenue-generating operations: student fees, subscriptions, project-based income, or equivalent. • An excellent written and verbal communication applicant needs to be able to translate financial complexity into clear narratives for non-finance audiences. • Experience managing donor or grant financial reporting, including budget vs actuals and utilisation tracking. • Strong grounding in financial accounting and reporting principles, with the ability to challenge and validate underlying numbers • Prior experience in audit (Big Four preferred) or a role with significant exposure to financial close and reporting processes • Demonstrated experience supporting or owning month-end close processes in a structured environment • High attention to detail with a focus on data integrity, controls, and completeness • Ability to operate across both analytical (FP&A) and control/reporting environments • Comfortable working with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite) and large datasets, with an understanding of how transactions flow into reporting • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to enforce deadlines and challenge slippage constructively.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive safeguarding policy • Open yet secure environment • Diverse and inclusive workplace • Professional development opportunities