We have an opportunity to join our Group IT Team as a Finance Analyst on a full time, permanent basis.
Reporting into the Senior IT Services Manager, you will support the management, reconciliation and reporting on the budgets and accounts for the IT department. You will work with your wider team to ensure budgets are managed to forecast, costs are actively monitored, savings identified and reconciliation is accurately entered. You will also produce regular reports, information and budget walkthroughs to support the transparency of the budget.
What does a normal week look like?
There is no such thing as a typical week in this role, but you can expect the following:
- Running reports from the VW financial systems to ensure that IT costs are correctly allocated and accounted for in the cost centres
- Working with colleagues in IT and Central Finance to ensure that the cost centres are tracking to budget and raising awareness of risks / opportunities as they arise
- Management of incoming invoices to ensure that all are approved / rejected and then processed as required
- Raising shopping cart requests in the VW procurement system for IT purchases
- Responding to ad hoc requests for financial information – analysis of required data and preparation of response
- Management of accruals and pre-payment process in cost centres
- Management of process to ensure that any agreed cross charges are passed on to other business areas as appropriate
- Discussions with colleagues in Central Finance regarding any potential changes to overall forecasts and completing monthly documentation for input into the central system
- Co-ordination of activities leading up to annual budget setting process
Skills & experience you can bring to the role:
- Finance analysis background with experience in budget analysis and management reporting
- Experience of managing IT budgets and finances
- Advanced Excel experience including PivotTables and LOOKUPS
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organised with the ability to work on your own initiative
- Strong user knowledge of SAP and MS Office
What can we offer you?
Along with a competitive salary, car schemes (including cars for family members), discretionary bonus, enhanced pension contributions, healthcare cash plan, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, 4 x life asssurance & health & wellbeing support, we also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit you and your lifestyle.
Group IT
Together, the Group IT team works across the business with brands, our head office in Germany and our suppliers to deliver IT applications and solutions. You’ll have the opportunity to work with different functions, so you can make an impact across the organisation. This is an environment where hard work doesn’t go unrecognised. We’re proud of our high expectations here, but there is a culture that supports bringing out the best opportunities for individuals to learn and grow in a collaborative and diverse environment.
There is nowhere in the business more fast-paced, challenging or varied than our IT department. The team is responsible for setting the technology strategy and roadmap for Volkswagen Group UK whilst creating innovative solutions, maintaining applications and optimising security. Our people are also experts in Volkswagen Group’s global business processes and systems and are proficient at implementing vast change programmes