Financial Analyst

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced skilled Financial Analyst looking for a new challenge where you can make a difference? 

About Us

Sodexo is a leading provider of catering, facility management and personal home services with a worldwide turnover of circa €17bn.  Through our family of leading brands, which includes The Good Care Group, Oxford Aunts, Prestige Nursing & Care and Comfort Keepers, we provide care to thousands of individuals across the UK and Ireland every minute of every day.   Through our family of leading brands, the Homecare division of Sodexo provides care and support to thousands of individuals each year in their own homes.  

We operate four main businesses in the region: The Good Care Group, Oxford Aunts, Prestige Nursing & Care and Comfort Keepers.  Each business serves a unique segment of the market.

Role Responsibility

The Role

In this new role you will support our Chief Financial Officer and regional management team by providing financial and business analysis across Sodexo’s Homecare businesses in UK and Ireland.

It is a wide and varied role.  One day you might be involved in analysing underlying business performance, another day you might be building a PowerBI dashboard to present information to senior management in the most effective way, and the following week you might be involved in M&A activity.

You will assist the Chief Financial Officer by coordinating the business planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes across the region providing analysis and actionable insights on a wide range financial and non-financial issues.  You will also work closely with the CFO on M&A projects.

Key duties include:

• Coordinating management and financial reporting across the region

• Providing accurate and timely management information to the regional management team

• Developing KPIs and dashboards to monitor financial and non-financial performance of the businesses

• Identifying trends and providing meaningful insight and analysis to help decision making and drive growth

• Working with other members of the regional management team on ad-hoc projects including new systems implementations (a new HR and payroll system is currently being implemented across the region and there are plans to implement a common finance system in FY23/FY24)

• Working closely with the CFO on M&A

• Onward reporting to the Sodexo Group.

Accountabilities:

• Providing accurate and timely management information

• Providing Financial insight and analysis

• Driving process and system improvement

• Helping to deliver on other ad hoc projects

The Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. The insights you provide will help improve the service we provide and clients lives.

You will be an effective team player, confident communicator and have the personal energy and drive to see projects through.

Essential

• Experience of working in a dynamic multi-site organisation (minimum of 3 years’)

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field 

• Formal accounting qualification e.g ACCA, CIMA

• Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to analyse and derive actionable insights from complex data sets

• Proficient Microsoft and Excel skills 

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge of the care sector

• Ability to build dashboards in Microsoft PowerBI

• M&A experience

Applicants must: 

• Be UK or Ireland based with right to work in both the UK and Ireland. 
• Hold a valid driving licence.

Package Description

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process