Senior Financial Analyst

A quick look at the role.
As a Senior Financial Analyst within our Central Group Accounting team, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our Group financial reporting. You’ll help deliver high-quality financial information, support statutory reporting and audit requirements, and maintain strong financial controls, while working closely with teams across Finance including Statutory Accounts, Treasury, FP&A and local accounting teams.

Your core responsibilities

• Manage the accurate and timely reporting of Off-Ledger Entities (OLEs), ensuring data is complete, reconciled and compliant with Group reporting requirements.
• Prepare and review key balance sheet reconciliations, including AP, AR, GNRI, cash, fixed assets, leases and suspense accounts, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Review intercompany postings and resolve mismatches to ensure balances reconcile accurately across the Group.
• Partner with Treasury and local accounting teams to support accurate and timely Group cash and treasury reporting.
• Support statutory reporting and year-end activities, including journal postings and the preparation of financial information.
• Assist with external audit requirements, providing accurate supporting documentation and responding to queries in a timely manner.
• Support M&A activity, including acquisition accounting, financial reconciliations and the integration of newly acquired entities into Group reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement across financial reporting processes, controls and documentation, while supporting wider Finance projects and ad hoc requirements.

Our essential requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with experience in financial accounting or Group reporting.
• Strong understanding of balance sheet reconciliations, financial controls, fixed assets and lease accounting.
• Excellent analytical and reconciliation skills, with strong attention to detail and a focus on accuracy.
• Confident using ERP systems and financial reporting tools, alongside strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Able to manage multiple priorities, work effectively to deadlines and deliver in a fast-paced reporting environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to build effective relationships across Finance and the wider business.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) would be an advantage.

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.