FP and A Analyst

Business Partnering (Enforcement Division)

- Responsible for the day-to-day financial management and reporting of Enforcement case costs.

- Providing support to Case Lawyers, Executive Counsel and the Finance Director with case expenditure, budgeting, budget applications, forecasting and reporting of case costs.

- Collate and produce month-end journals for enforcement accruals, balance sheet reconciliation, staff recharges and summary utilisation report.

- Provide quarterly billing and reconciliation of project spends, produce participant’s re-imbursement invoices and project spend report.

- Monitor costs to ensure this is within budget. Facilitate the tracking and recording of expenditure on all cases ensuring costs are within approved budgets

- Ensure that the cost recording complies with the Disciplinary Scheme and Audit Enforcement Procedure case costs agreement.

Monthly Reporting

- Update standardized reporting (financials & headcount) on time each month and provide detailed analysis and commentary on department / division results.

- Manage the Cash flow forecast and liaise with other Government departments to ensure FRC maintains sufficient liquidity.

- Update UKEB Expense report.

- Manage the Birmingham travel expenses report

Systems / Continuous Improvements

- Assist with the maintenance of the Workday Adaptive Planning system.

- Refresh monthly Management Accounts (Workday report) during month end.

- Assist with the management of System End User network groups.

- Review existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts.

Knowledge & Expertise

- Finalist / newly qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA or ACCA).

- Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships.

- Experience of Advanced Financials and Workday Adaptive Planning (Preferable).

- Strong understanding of financial and accounting processes.

- Proficient with excel and financial modelling.

- Knowledge of Managing Public Money principles is preferred.

- Good attention to detail and able to prioritise activities.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Adaptable, and flexible and working in a fast-paced environment.

- Experience in business partnering with non-financial functions is preferred but not essential.

- Strong analytical skills and an ability to distil key messages and make recommendations from various data source.

Please apply by following the link our website https://www.frc.org.uk/frc-for-you/careers and uploading a copy of your CV and covering letter as a single document upload. In the covering letter, please set out, by reference to the person specification above how you meet the required skillset.

- How you meet the required skillset

- confirm that you have the right to work in the UK, and

- tell us where you heard about this job

Rewards and benefits

- The FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, ability to buy extra leave.

- Generous employer pension contribution of 10%.

- Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life services.

- The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work scheme.

- The FRC has a strong work/life balance ethos.

The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important in the work that we do and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. We're a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme, which means that we guarantee an interview to any disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and practices.

The role is based in our central Birmingham office. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities and also provide cover within the FRC as necessary. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement with its workforce. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager.