Total 9 job vacancies by Reed Talent Solutions

Do you have the ability to confidently influence and support colleagues towards achieving business objectives?

Are you a part or a qualified accountant?

Do you have experience of financial reporting?

Consider the role of Operations Finance Business Partner with Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services.

About the role

A primary purpose of the Operations Finance Business Partner role is to be the Finance representative supporting the Programme Director and Senior Operations team for the Programmes being partnered. Performing contract performance reviews with operational leads, utilising the suite of financial and KPI reports available.

Facilitating focused Finance support, involving the preparation of detailed financial and performance models, regular information sharing and guidance in relation to financial performance and maximising revenue & profit generation in line with Contract plans and targets.

Candidates should possess a strong work ethic and an agile mind-set. Candidates should also enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and a continuous improvement culture.

Reporting to the Senior Commercial Business Partner, the Operations Finance Business Partner will develop models for monthly, periodic and long-range performance and finance forecasting. These models must also have the ability to feed into the annual budgeting and strategic review process.

The Operations Finance Business Partner role will contribute to the provision and continuous improvement of accurate, timely and well-presented financial management information to the Board of Directors and Operations Management.

Key accountabilities

Business Partnering & Reporting

• Using, monitoring & querying the periodic management accounts outputs, focusing on driving performance
• Enhancing the financial performance information available to Operations
• Confidently communicating with other key stakeholders and management teams
• Obtaining information required to inform a rolling forecast financial model updating in a timely manner
• Build and develop Excel financial models to support key contracts including summary reporting. Models will need to be easily adaptable and easily followed by users.
• Reports & Models must be user friendly with key information for decisions easily accessible.
• Perform periodic P&L & contract performance reviews with operational leads, utilising the suite of financial and KPI reports available. Discussing areas or suggestions for improvements. Provide timely and detailed cost centre management information with explanations for cost variances.
• Help drive financial focus and improved operational efficiency.
• Creation of financial and performance reporting tools for new contract implementation, along with embedding the use of these into Operational activities.
• Provide timely financial or forecasting information required externally by our Customers
• Regular communication supporting operational leads plan for resourcing requirement using commercial model workings Forecasts and Budgeting Develop models for monthly, periodic and long-range forecasting as well as the annual budgeting and strategic review process.
• Preparation of periodic, long range forecasts and annual budgets using models capable of consolidating up to 200 cost centres.
• Liaise with the Management Accountants to ensure processes and models are understood and accurately reflected on consolidation.
• Prepare periodic forecasts, focusing on the consolidation and analysis of variances to previous projections
• Regular communication with operational leads to understand their forecasting predictions and support in driving improved operational performance.

Other Duties

• Responding to ad-hoc commercial analysis required by our customers and other stakeholders.
• To support the Head of Commercial Accounting, Commercial Business Partners & wider Finance function in continually embracing emerging technology to enhance the operation of the department
• To ensure that the ethos of continuous improvement exists within the Commercial Finance function by reviewing the quality and relevance of the output of the department and reviewing procedures routinely, working with management to implement to the most efficient and effective methods for the business

What's in it for you?

Alongside a generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus, much more that can be found Here

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Part or Qualified accountant
• Management accounting experience in a private sector environment. Involving experience of financial reporting, KPI preparation and communication and management reporting.
• Confident communicator with experience in building relationships & trust with Operational teams
• Ability to set up & maintain detailed forecast models using Microsoft excel or other tools where necessary
• Proven ability to convey financial information to non-financial managers in a coherent, confident manner. Relevant experience might come from monthly management accounts review meetings, budget or forecast negotiations
• Proven analytical and reporting skills
• Power BI (or similar) knowledge and ability to set up reports using Power BI desktop
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Proactive, self-motivated and agile attitude
• Excellent organisational and time management skills and attention to detail
• A team player with good interpersonal, relationship building, networking and communication skills.
• Ability to deal with and manage through conflicting priorities and a number of tasks running concurrently

Desirable Criteria

• Ability to confidently influence and support colleagues towards achieving business objectives
• Business partnering or commercial accounting experience in a private sector and/or contracting environment or in a fast moving, high volume, multi-site environment, with specific focus on business planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Experience and ability in presentation to Senior Stakeholders including Board level
• Good accounting systems knowledge, gained through in-depth exposure to systems such as Oracle, SAP, CODA
• Demonstrable experience of working in a fast paced, changing finance environment
• Experience of best practice communicating

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Do you have demonstratable experience of using Power BI?

Are you experienced in the use of relational databases including SQL?

Consider the role of a Business Intelligence Analyst at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services.

What is the role about?

The Business Intelligence Analyst is responsible for maintaining the data architecture and data pipelines that support business intelligence systems. This includes ensuring that the data architecture is scalable, secure, and optimized for performance. They also work closely with other teams to ensure that data is properly integrated and available for analysis.

The Business Intelligence Analyst will work closely with the analysts for reporting requirements and ensuring the correct data structure is in place for implementing newly awarded contracts.

The role will be responsible for designing processes and controls to ensure all data presented is tested, and accurate.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Performing data manipulation and transformation within Azure/Snowflake/any other required data warehouses
• Designing and developing data solutions
• Governance of dataset access and controls
• Writing and testing processes
• Documenting and recording any structural changes to Azure/Snowflake
• Developing and maintaining data processes, new applications and new features
• Implementing and maintaining database objects
• Maintaining and improving tools for system analysis
• Building/maintaining Power BI data models with requirements from other teams

Work with existing contracts and implement newly awarded contracts by:

• Working with key stakeholders across the business
• Building and maintaining data warehouse, data flows, and pipelines
• Sourcing data from multiple sources and building logical models (dim/fact tables)

Working with BI Analysts to support internal and external reporting requirements of existing and newly awarded contracts including:

• Identifying and building KPI’s, Milestones, etc
• Identifying financial thresholds
• Assessing the needs of supply chain

Other requirements for the Business Intelligence Analyst are;

• Develop and maintain strong professional working relationships with Operations colleagues
• Perform data manipulation and transformation in Power BI
• Understand and use DAX and SQL code within Power BI
• Use SQL and Power BI to create schemes that describe and track performance
• To provide cover for other roles in the Business Intelligence Team in times of annual leave / absence or workload fluctuations
• Provide daily preparation of the Performance reporting and other ad-hoc reports
• Provide commissioner returns

What’s in it for you?

A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here
• With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

At Reed in Partnership, we live and breathe our values in every decision and action taken, resulting in a collaborative and enjoyable culture within our offices. Our company values – we are fair open and honest; we take ownership, and we work together.

Where possible we consider applications from candidates that require part-time hours, please discuss with your Talent Partner if this is something you require.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

Essential Criteria:

• Experienced in the use of relational databases including SQL.
• Demonstratable experience of using Power BI
• Demonstratable advanced excel spreadsheet skills with pivots, macros and look-ups.
• Demonstrable experience in dealing with high volumes of data with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to present complex Business Intelligence to all levels in the organisation.
• Ability to quickly understand and follow complex systems and procedures.
• Be able to work under pressure and work to strict reporting deadlines.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Technical skills: Data Manipulation, Data Validation, Data Cleaning, Row Level Security, Relational Databases Management, Dimensional Modelling.
• Soft skills: Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving, Communication, Logical Reasoning, Questioning Nature, Dataflows, Data Pipelines, Data Validation, Attention to Detail
• Programmes: Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Packages

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of developing informative Business Intelligence that meets the needs of its target audience.
• Able to understand and process changing requirements in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to build good, professional relationships, both internally and externally as a representative of Reed In Partnership.
• Technical skills: Snowflake Scheme Design, Kimball Methodology, Star Schemas
• Programmes: Snowflake

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Are you looking for a rewarding role that makes a difference and helps others?

Would you like to work in a role that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do, making a genuine positive impact?

Then consider the role of Participation Engagement Officer at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services

This role is a fixed term contract for 9 months

What is the role about?

The Participant Engagement Officer is the first port of call for all participants that are referred to the Restart scheme with Reed in Partnership. The primary purpose of the role is to make the first contact with referred participants and gather the relevant information to ensure we can assist jobseekers as quickly and effectively as possible, to move them closer to being back in gainful employment. Our participants are the focus of a programme like this, as such providing them with the best possible service is at the core of the Participant Engagement Officer role.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Making contact with jobseekers, to explain the scheme and obtain information from them to help us to help them
• Booking jobseekers in with Employment Advisers for one-to-one meetings
• Engaging with Job Centre work coaches and assisting in the referral process
• Responding to expressions of interest
• Checking in with participants once they have commenced work through the scheme to offer advice and support
• Provide an excellent and engaging experience for all participants

What’s in it for you?

A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

At Reed in Partnership, we live and breathe our values in every decision and action taken, resulting in a collaborative and enjoyable culture within our offices. Our company values – we are fair open and honest; we take ownership, and we work together

Where possible we consider applications from candidates that require part-time hours, please discuss with your Talent Partner if this is something you require’

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience working in a customer facing environment (i.e. Customer Services, Hospitality, Social Care, Customer Services, Sales)
• Experience of working in a target driven environment
• Technical skills include strong administration skills, good computer/technology skills, basic numeracy skills and good written communication/record keeping skills.
• A minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma in combination with GCSE English Language Grade B or above (or equivalent Level 2 qualification). If you do not possess this level of qualification you will be required to achieve a Level 2 in a Literacy Assessment conducted at interview stage.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience of having worked in a telephone based customer service or Call Centre Experience
• Experience of working in a fast paced environment.
• Previous experience of a working in a similar role in Welfare to Work or publicly funded services

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Are you looking for a rewarding role that makes a difference and helps others?

Would you like to work in a role that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do, making a genuine positive impact?

Then consider the role of Participation Engagement Officer at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services

What is the role about?

The Participant Engagement Officer is the first port of call for all participants that are referred to the Restart scheme with Reed in Partnership. The primary purpose of the role is to make the first contact with referred participants and gather the relevant information to ensure we can assist jobseekers as quickly and effectively as possible, to move them closer to being back in gainful employment. Our participants are the focus of a programme like this, as such providing them with the best possible service is at the core of the Participant Engagement Officer role.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Making contact with jobseekers, to explain the scheme and obtain information from them to help us to help them
• Booking jobseekers in with Employment Advisers for one-to-one meetings
• Engaging with Job Centre work coaches and assisting in the referral process
• Responding to expressions of interest
• Checking in with participants once they have commenced work through the scheme to offer advice and support
• Provide an excellent and engaging experience for all participants

What’s in it for you?

A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

At Reed in Partnership, we live and breathe our values in every decision and action taken, resulting in a collaborative and enjoyable culture within our offices. Our company values – we are fair open and honest; we take ownership, and we work together

Where possible we consider applications from candidates that require part-time hours, please discuss with your Talent Partner if this is something you require’

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience working in a customer facing environment (i.e. Customer Services, Hospitality, Social Care, Customer Services, Sales)
• Experience of working in a target driven environment
• Technical skills include strong administration skills, good computer/technology skills, basic numeracy skills and good written communication/record keeping skills.
• A minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma in combination with GCSE English Language Grade B or above (or equivalent Level 2 qualification). If you do not possess this level of qualification you will be required to achieve a Level 2 in a Literacy Assessment conducted at interview stage.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience of having worked in a telephone based customer service or Call Centre Experience
• Experience of working in a fast paced environment.
• Previous experience of a working in a similar role in Welfare to Work or publicly funded services

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Are you a natural problem solver with a great attention to detail?

Would you like to work in a fast-paced role?

Consider the role of a Validations Assistant at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services

Validations Assistants works towards minimising contractual risk to Reed in Partnership through accurate and timely validation of claimable events on contracted provision. The core aspect of the role is to validate and assure the business that all evidence submitted to support operational activity meets contractual requirements across multiple and varied contracts

What is the role about?

The core aspect of the role is to validate and assure the business that all evidence submitted to support operational activity meets contractual requirements across multiple and varied contracts. Validation of evidence will be accurate, timely, and issues clearly communicated back to operational teams.

The role will also provide administrative and project assistance to the Validation Manager and the wider Risk Management Department when required; will support all activities relating to audits and inspections; and will include coaching, advising, and guiding front line staff on validation process and systems usage.

A Validation Assistant will strictly adhere to the guidelines in accordance with the programme’s requirements and Reed in Partnership’s policies and procedures. This is not an exhaustive list and a Compliance Assistant will be expected to carry out any other duties as may be specified by the line manager from time to time. This profile is non-contractual.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Validating member paperwork to ensure compliant and meets requirements before submitting to our Commissioner
• Answering queries and explanations, in line with agreed guidance and process manuals, ensuring mutual understanding and agreement to proposed actions.
• Ensuring that material is understood, and that extra support is provided if necessary, on a face to face or training basis
• Assuring the integrity of data entered on electronic systems is accurately maintained
• To perform analysis of validation rejections to identify key trends and highlight as directed by the Validation Manager and Executive across all regional operations and support teams.
• To interrogate centrally produced management information and disseminate required actions and recommended activity to Operational and Support Teams.

What’s in it for you?

Alongside a generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel
• Demonstrable experience gained in a fast-paced environment of the manipulation of data
• Previous high-level telephone or face to face customer service experience gained in a business to business or internal corporate environment.
• Exemplary attention to detail, when processing large volumes of information

Desirable skills and experience

• Previous experience of working in a processing or compliance function
• Experience of the welfare to work sector, DWP or ESFA.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Do you have demonstratable experience of using Power BI?

Are you experienced in the use of relational databases including SQL?

Consider the role of a Business Intelligence Analyst at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services.

What is the role about?

The Business Intelligence Analyst is responsible for maintaining the data architecture and data pipelines that support business intelligence systems. This includes ensuring that the data architecture is scalable, secure, and optimized for performance. They also work closely with other teams to ensure that data is properly integrated and available for analysis.

The Business Intelligence Analyst will work closely with the analysts for reporting requirements and ensuring the correct data structure is in place for implementing newly awarded contracts.

The role will be responsible for designing processes and controls to ensure all data presented is tested, and accurate.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Performing data manipulation and transformation within Azure/Snowflake/any other required data warehouses
• Designing and developing data solutions
• Governance of dataset access and controls
• Writing and testing processes
• Documenting and recording any structural changes to Azure/Snowflake
• Developing and maintaining data processes, new applications and new features
• Implementing and maintaining database objects
• Maintaining and improving tools for system analysis
• Building/maintaining Power BI data models with requirements from other teams

Work with existing contracts and implement newly awarded contracts by:

• Working with key stakeholders across the business
• Building and maintaining data warehouse, data flows, and pipelines
• Sourcing data from multiple sources and building logical models (dim/fact tables)

Working with BI Analysts to support internal and external reporting requirements of existing and newly awarded contracts including:

• Identifying and building KPI’s, Milestones, etc
• Identifying financial thresholds
• Assessing the needs of supply chain

Other requirements for the Business Intelligence Analyst are;

• Develop and maintain strong professional working relationships with Operations colleagues
• Perform data manipulation and transformation in Power BI
• Understand and use DAX and SQL code within Power BI
• Use SQL and Power BI to create schemes that describe and track performance
• To provide cover for other roles in the Business Intelligence Team in times of annual leave / absence or workload fluctuations
• Provide daily preparation of the Performance reporting and other ad-hoc reports
• Provide commissioner returns

What’s in it for you?

A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here
• With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

At Reed in Partnership, we live and breathe our values in every decision and action taken, resulting in a collaborative and enjoyable culture within our offices. Our company values – we are fair open and honest; we take ownership, and we work together.

Where possible we consider applications from candidates that require part-time hours, please discuss with your Talent Partner if this is something you require.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

Essential Criteria:

• Experienced in the use of relational databases including SQL.
• Demonstratable experience of using Power BI
• Demonstratable advanced excel spreadsheet skills with pivots, macros and look-ups.
• Demonstrable experience in dealing with high volumes of data with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to present complex Business Intelligence to all levels in the organisation.
• Ability to quickly understand and follow complex systems and procedures.
• Be able to work under pressure and work to strict reporting deadlines.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Technical skills: Data Manipulation, Data Validation, Data Cleaning, Row Level Security, Relational Databases Management, Dimensional Modelling.
• Soft skills: Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving, Communication, Logical Reasoning, Questioning Nature, Dataflows, Data Pipelines, Data Validation, Attention to Detail
• Programmes: Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Packages

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of developing informative Business Intelligence that meets the needs of its target audience.
• Able to understand and process changing requirements in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to build good, professional relationships, both internally and externally as a representative of Reed In Partnership.
• Technical skills: Snowflake Scheme Design, Kimball Methodology, Star Schemas
• Programmes: Snowflake

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Do you have extensive financial accounting experience?

Do you have a proactive and flexible, ‘can do’ attitude with a strong sense of honesty and integrity?

Consider the role of a Financial Reporting Accountant at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services.

What is the role about?

The Financial Reporting Accountant role delivers Management Information and Financial Accounting for Reed in Partnership and its subsidiaries.

The right person for this role will ideally be a qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA or equivalent). They will be keen to join an organisation committed to improving the lives of people in the communities they serve, who has experience of working in a large business. They will have a broad skill set covering various aspects of accounting and tax and will be at a stage in their career where they feel comfortable to take ownership for the company’s financial reporting framework and associated deadlines.

The Financial Reporting Accountant will drive performance and take responsibility for the timely delivery of periodic divisional management information, associated commentary, and reconciliation, supported by regular reviews to ensure accurate processing and record keeping.

They will use their Excel and Power BI skills to create meaningful reports and improve data analysis, implementing and maintaining controls and seeking efficiency opportunities. They will have worked with various systems and ERPs and will be highly data literate and able to interpret and comment on records kept.

This role will also be responsible for reviewing and analysing financial information from various sources, ensuring timely Balance Sheet Reconciliation and reporting, including intra-group control accounts and accurate statements of assets and liabilities in accordance with accounting policies.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Timely periodic preparation of divisional management accounting information, with associated analysis and commentary on key variances and trends.
• Reconciliation of Balance Sheet items, with documentary evidence and calculations to support all balances.
• Report each period on relevant transactional activity and robustness of controls.
• Able to present and report on accurate and timely visibility of accruals, prepayments and other Balance Sheet control accounts.
• Complete and submit a variety of statutory returns in a timely and accurate manner
• Reconciliation of intercompany accounting transactions, and periodic reporting thereon.
• Proactive support for the preparation of statutory accounts and annual audit, liaising with external auditors, preparing Lead Schedules and reconciliations, as required.
• Development and on-going production of capital expenditure monitoring, reporting and control
• Maintain short and medium-term cash flow forecasting to support decision making

Other

• Drive process improvement, accuracy and efficiency. Including using data reporting tools to support analysis and reporting.
• Provide cross – departmental support throughout the business, as required, ensuring that financial information is accurate and timely, including business partnering activities, as needed.
• Build and play a key role in a high performing, highly engaged team, creating a culture of excellence and leading on change and project implementation.

What’s in it for you?

Alongside a generous base salary, and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. All travel for sessions will be reimbursed, and you will have access to the full range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

Essential Criteria:

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA accountant (or equivalent) with excellent technical background
• Ability to work independently and as part of a wider team with good communication and reporting skills
• Excellent General Ledger reconciliation skills with a tenacious approach to delivery and the ability to creatively and proactively problem solve.
• Highly accurate and detail orientated with a proven track record for data analysis
• Knowledge of current Corporation Tax and VAT legislation
• Advanced Excel skills and experienced in additional data analysis and reporting applications
• Extensive financial accounting experience.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with proven resilience and the ability to work under pressure and achieve reporting deadlines.
• A proactive and flexible, ‘can do’ attitude with a strong sense of honesty and integrity
• Ability to be diligent and retain high levels of concentration and accuracy at all times

Desirable Criteria:

• Involvement in implementing change and establishing continual improvement.
• Ability to identify process improvements and make appropriate recommendations
• Experience of ERP systems, including Oracle and Workday.
• Strong data analysis skills, with experience of MS Office Power Suite a distinct advantage.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Do you have previous experience in a Business Intelligence role, building power BI Reports?

Have you experience in a developer role, assisting and designing reports in Power BI?

Then consider the role of Business Intelligence Analyst at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services.

What is the role about?

The purpose of the Business Intelligence Analyst is to lead in the preparation and development of key business intelligence to enable efficient, effective and commercially focussed performance reporting within the business. The role will also ensure the data requirements of claims processing activity are met to ensure the business submits its claims in a timely and efficient manner.

The Business Intelligence Analyst is responsible for researching reporting requirements for a variety of stakeholders for current and newly awarded contracts, including designing robust controls to ensure the accuracy of the data presented.

The role will work closely with other departments to ensure business reporting requirements are delivered in an efficient and cost-effective manner and will ensure usage of the BI tool is maximised.

Please be advised this role is hybrid working with 2-3 days per week in the Liverpool office.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

Contract KPI analysis
Customer contract reporting
Volume reporting on key metrics at CPA, provider and branch level
Conversion rate and sustainment reporting
Caseload analysis
Monetary Flash reporting
PRaP accuracy and efficiency reporting

• To oversee the preparation of the company’s daily Flash reports, ensuring the data is both accurate and complete and pre-empting future changes as business needs evolve.
• Implement newly awarded contracts working with key stakeholders across the business.
• Use SQL and Power BI to create dashboard MI.
• Knowledge and practical use of connecting multiple data sources to a Data warehouse.
• Apply row level security to all reporting.
• The development of BI tool generated reports to facilitate ad-hoc reporting requests.
• To provide daily BI as required to support PRaP processing, claims reconciliation and subcontractor claims analysis.
• The preparation of commercially focussed KPI analysis for senior Operational managers, BI Manager and Head of BI to drive performance improvement.
• The preparation of regular period performance Business Intelligence including the consolidation of reporting packs required to support contract Service Delivery Board meetings and branch operational management.
• The preparation of cohort statistical analysis at a contract group level to support ongoing short-term and longer-term forecasting assumptions.
• The preparation of accurate and robust contractual performance statistics in line with internal and customer requirements
• To research the internal and external reporting requirements of existing and newly awarded contracts by proactively determining the information needs of key stakeholders including Operations and Supply Chain Management
• To design and develop, accurate, timely and user-friendly Business Intelligence, ensuring robust controls are in place to ensure the accuracy of the data published.
• To ensure reporting processes and procedures are fully documented and constantly reviewed in line with changing business and customer requirements.
• To provide input from a finance perspective into future developments of the BI Tool and other MI reporting tools used in the business including writing business cases specifications for new reporting requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong professional working relationships with Operations colleagues by maintaining an approachable presence.
• To assist the Head of Business Intelligence in responding to ad-hoc Business Intelligence reporting requests
• The assist in the daily preparation of the Performance Flash and other ad-hoc reports as required.
• Ongoing development and maintenance of the processes utilising the iMacros software.
• To coach operational and commercial management in understanding the data presented to aid performance improvement.

What’s in it for you?

Alongside a generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development, and progression opportunities. All travel for sessions will be reimbursed, and you will have access to the full range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Hybrid Working
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

Essential Criteria

• Previous experience in a data scientist or data analysis role
• Demonstrable advanced Power BI reporting skills
• Demonstrable advanced excel spreadsheet skills with pivots, macros and lookups.
• Previous experience of using Business Intelligence / Data warehousing products
• Demonstrable advanced analytical skills with the ability to produce accurate, interactive and user-friendly Business Intelligence for varying levels in the organisation.
• Demonstrable experience in dealing with high volumes of data with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience of developing informative Business Intelligence that meets the needs of its target audience.
• Ability to present complex Business Intelligence to all levels in the organisation.
• Ability to quickly understand and follow complex systems and procedures.
• A proactive and flexible, ‘can do’ attitude.
• Be able to work under pressure and work to strict reporting deadlines.
• A strong sense of honesty and integrity
• Excellent organisational and time management skills

Desirable Criteria

• Able to understand and process changing requirements in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to build good, professional relationships, both internally and externally as a representative of Reed In Partnership
• Experience of training staff on how to interpret financial or performance reporting.

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Do you have fantastic organisational and prioritisation skills?

Do you have previous work experience in a finance related role?

Consider the role of Assistant Financial Reporting Accountant at Reed in Partnership!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in skills training for the long-term unemployed, increasing employment opportunities by working with employers and providing youth services.

What is the role about?

The Assistant Financial Accountant role is primarily responsible for supporting the Financial Reporting Accountants with the preparation of periodic analysis and general ledger entries to support the production of Reed in Partnership and Reed Wellbeing Limited’s limited accounts ensuring that the companies are able to satisfy their statutory reporting obligations in an accurate and timely manner.

The role will also provide support to the Financial Accountant by preparing accounting entries including, but not limited to, accruals, prepayments, and fixed assets. This role will also co-ordinate the periodic compilation and review of Reed in Partnership’s and Reed Wellbeing’s balance sheet

The role will be responsible for compiling and analysing financial information, carrying out timely Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and preparing reporting summaries, including detailed and trend analysis, intra-group control accounts and accurate statements of assets and liabilities in accordance with accounting policies. This will include assisting with the maintenance of the accruals and prepayments schedules, detailed Fixed Asset Register, VAT and Tax compliance.

Just some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Supporting the allocation and monitoring of accruals and prepayments, liaising with supporting functions to ensure timely recognition of invoices.
• Supporting the maintenance of the company’s Fixed Asset register to ensure that all assets are correctly recorded and depreciated in accordance with the company’s Fixed Asset policy.
• Control of the intercompany accounting process including ensuring all invoices from Reed Group are authorised, processed, paid and coded in a timely and controlled manner and performing formal reconciliations of all intercompany accounts within the Reed Group, ensuring these are agreed on a periodic basis.
• Production of period end journals and reconciliations and other sundry period end routines
• Produce other designated balance sheet reconciliations on a periodic basis.
• Creation of the period end file and coordinate with Finance colleagues to ensure the completion of a full suite of balance sheet reconciliations for Reed in Partnership and Reed Wellbeing.
• Review and monitor key balance sheet reconciliations reporting key trends and identifying and reporting areas of both risk and opportunity in the company balance sheets.
• Production of daily cash flow reporting, ensuring it is accurately prepared and circulated to relevant members of the management team.
• Production of periodic financial control focused MI including information expenses policy violations, PO policy adherence and other ad-hoc MI as required.
• Year-end audit preparation including but not limited to production of audit schedules, liaising with the auditors, compiling audit evidence, and responding to queries in a timely fashion.
• Ensure that the company remains compliant with its key statutory reporting obligations by assisting the Financial Accountant and the Head of Financial Accounting.
• Hold responsibility for treasury functions, including delivery of cash allocations, journal postings and bank reconciliations, ensuring transactions are executed and recorded accurately and in a timely manner.
• Monitor and review the company’s control environment ensuring that the Companies remain compliant with its key policies and carrying out audit of processes where applicable.

As a key participant in the periodic reporting cycle for the business, this role requires the ability to carry out review and variance analysis and to contribute to meaningful and insightful commentary. You will also be expected to be able to follow a detailed framework and meet tight deadlines, whilst maintaining the ability to work under your own initiative and contribute ideas for improvement.

What’s in it for you?

Alongside a generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development, and progression opportunities. All travel for sessions will be reimbursed, and you will have access to the full range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Hybrid Working
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with

Essential Criteria

• AAT qualified or Accounting & Finance Degree equivalent qualification
• Demonstrable experience in a busy multi-site finance environment
• Good accounting systems knowledge, gained through in-depth exposure to systems such as Oracle or SAP
• Experience of reconciling general ledger balance sheet accounts
• Good Microsoft Excel and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to build robust working relationships with co-members in and outside of the Finance environment.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to deal with conflicting priorities and a number of tasks concurrently.
• The ability to grasp complex processes quickly.
• Proactive team player, with a flexible ‘can do’ attitude.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of fixed asset accounting and depreciation
• Exposure to intercompany accounting
• Ability to understand and produce complex reconciliations.
• Experience of business electronic banking and production of bank and cash reconciliations
• Experience of sales ledger invoicing and cash allocation

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