Financial Analysis Officer

About you
You will be educated to at least A level standard (or equivalent) and have some experience and understanding of organisational financial management or accounting systems.
You will have:

• excellent attention to detail
  
• a logical approach and a high level of numeracy
  
• great time management skills
  
• a proven ability to work to deadlines and prioritise multiple tasks when required.
  
• strong Excel skills – which are vital to success in this role (you will need to be confident using VLOOKUPS and pivot tables)
  
• an ability to question, spotting anomalies and trends in data.
  

About the role
The Financial Analysis Officer will be a member of the team that provides Sightsavers management team with financial forecasting, monitoring, reporting and analysis, in order to support decision making.  Reporting to the Decision Support Manager, this role will assist in ensuring that management receive accurate, reliable and timely information utilising Excel, Word and PowerBI.  The Financial Analysis Officer will support the annual organisational planning process through the preparation, consolidation, analysis and review of submitted data by interrogating internal systems.
The main activities of the role:

• Assisting with planned and ad hoc financial analysis and scenario planning activities
  
• Working with internal stakeholders to consolidate plans and forecasts
  
• Preparing clear reports and presentations for internal stakeholders