What's the role?
We are looking for a motivated Finance professional to join us as Senior Finance Analyst who is looking for a next challenge, in their career and is looking for an opportunity to become part of Reporting Team family focusing on driving business decisions through insightful analytics and supporting HILTI business on financial topics within our vibrant Regional Finance Hub in Manchester.
In this role you will use our database and processes, reporting and analytical skills to support the delivery of all reporting activities across the Northern Europe Region composed of six countries. You will need to be curious and pro-active team-player focused on delivering excellent support for our stakeholders ranging from Analysts to General Managers. You will also be enthusiastic about finance and topics related with it and looking to develop further within Finance function.
Who is Hilti?
Hilti is where innovation is improving productivity, safety and sustainability in the global construction industry, and beyond. Where strong customer relationships are creating products and solutions that are Making Construction Better. Where a passionate and inclusive global team of 34,000 employees across more than 120 countries is exploring possibilities, leveraging their potential, owning their personal development and growing lasting careers. Hilti Great Britain has been consistently recognised as a top employer for nearly two decades and is currently ranked in top 20 UK’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work institute.
What does the role involve?
In this role we do not want you just to report on the results but go step further and act as a business support representing reporting function on financial topics. With a wide range of stakeholders across finance and wider HILTI business we are looking to optimise business steering, via value-added reporting and analytics, and aiming to act as a consultant to our stakeholders.
In this role you will execute and further develop all required reporting activities for the Northern Europe region and its sales organisations, utilising technologies to retrieve and manipulate data such as Microsoft Excel and Access DB, Power Queries and Business Objects Analytics, and visualise data via Power BI.
Since this role is placed within Finance function you’ll be tasked with creating business specific transparency of financial results and business performance and will help contribute towards performance management for the region via reporting efficiency and data excellence. Main key topics we are looking for you contribute will be compensation related reporting, OPEX and functional P&L’s as well bring innovative solutions into our day-to-day tasks.
Accuracy and attention to detail will be key, you will need to always challenge and stress data integrity to ensure that our results are accurate and delivered within agreed SLA’s. Depending on time of the year workload will vary since role requires support of annual, quarterly, and monthly reporting cycles in an accurate and timely way.
Being at Hilti means joining a community of 33,000 people, 127 different nationalities working together across 120 countries
What do we offer?
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:
- Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
- Company vehicle and fuel card for sales roles
- 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
- Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
- Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams
What you need is:
Education:
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in finance, business, or economics
- Previous FP&A experience preferable but other Finance function experience will work as well.
- Good understanding of general finance and accounting topics and desire to develop further within finance function is a must, everything else we can teach.
- A person studying or looking to further study towards professional accounting qualification such as CIMA will help support further development in Finance function case.
- Database building skills using Excel and MS Access.
- Understanding data visualisation tools such as Power BI.
- Understanding of P&L statement and financial processes such as Accruals and Deferrals.
- Good communication skills with the sense of working in the team.
- Demonstrate leadership and coaching/training of others.
- Critical thinking.
- Analytical problem-solving skills and agile learning mindset.
- Adaptable to change with dynamic personality and high performing mindset.
- Motivated to develop a long-term career with Hilti and with the flexibility to relocate to other countries to widen the horizon of your future career advancement would be of great benefit
Who should apply?
Motivated and driven individual with aptitude towards Finance and Accounting topics who is looking to develop within vibrant, challenging and highly rewarding environment.
At HILTI we put people first, and we mean it, so if you are looking for company that supports you and looks at people development seriously come and join our team!
Please DO NOT apply for multiple roles - the team will assign you where your skills are the best fit.
Click through the 'Apply Now' button where you will be asked to upload your CV and answer a couple of short questions – the whole process should take around 90 seconds.
If we don't have a suitable role for you at the moment, we will keep you in our talent pool for the future so your recruitment process might take a bit longer but we'll be sure to stay in touch.
Hilti is where your best belongs. We are an equal opportunity employer and value the contributions of all our team members regardless of sex, gender identity/expression, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or family status.
