Finance Analyst Role - Leading Manufacturing Group - Permanent - Hereford, Herefordshire - Hays Your new companyHays Accountancy and Finance are partnering exclusively with a global Manufacturing Group to recruit a dynamic and experienced Financial Analyst to join their established team in Hereford, Herefordshire. An interesting permanent accounting role providing support to the Financial Controller in a range of duties from cost analysis/reporting, financial analysis, budgeting/forecasting, month/year-end support, process improvement projects, business partnering and more. This role is ideally suited to a CIMA/ACCA/ACA part-qualified studier or qualified finance professional with experience within the manufacturing sector. Your new roleYour key duties will involve providing analysis on cost improvement and productivity pipeline projects, preparation of monthly forecasts and annual budgets, along with producing quality reporting/analysis on financial/operations metrics. You will support month/quarter/year-end processes, journal processing and balance sheet reconciliations. Reporting on inventory, cost and profitability along with fixed and variable spending analysis. You will be involved in BI reporting, contributing to budgeting cycles, audit and reporting for year-end and quarterly accounts, along with supporting Capex and SOX processes. You will assist in year-end cost rolls with the FPandA team, bank posting and payment loading, support stock processes along with ..... full job details .....