Commercial Finance Analyst

Are you looking for more than just another finance role?

This is an opportunity to join a growing business that's investing in its finance function and creating a brand-new position within its FP&A team. Reporting directly to the FP&A Director, you'll have the chance to make a genuine impact while developing your career in a business that promotes from within and believes in investing in its people.

If you're commercially minded, enjoy understanding how a business operates, and want to move beyond producing numbers to influencing decisions, this could be the perfect next step.

Working closely with the FP&A Director and wider finance team, you'll support financial planning, analysis and business partnering across the organisation.

Responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the budgeting and forecasting process.
• Producing insightful management information and performance analysis.
• Working with stakeholders across the business to understand performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Analysing trends, KPIs and financial data to support decision-making.
• Challenging existing processes and identifying more efficient ways of working.
• Supporting month-end reporting and helping deliver timely, accurate financial information.
• Playing a key role in developing and shaping the future of the FP&A function.

The business is currently implementing Power BI, so experience with Power BI, Power Query or SQL would be an advantage, but it's certainly not essential. What's more important is a willingness to learn and embrace new ways of working.

We're looking for someone with strong finance fundamentals who is keen to build a career within commercial finance and FP&A.

You'll ideally have:

• Ideally AAT Level 4 qualified with ambitions to continue studying (CIMA or ACCA would be advantageous).
• Experience within management accounting, finance analysis or a commercial finance role.
• Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, management reporting or variance analysis.
• Strong Excel skills and an analytical mindset.
• The confidence to build relationships across the business and communicate financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
• A proactive approach with the confidence to question, challenge and suggest improvements.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who is curious, commercially aware and looking for a business where you can develop over the long term.

This is a genuinely exciting time to join the business. With continued growth, you'll have the opportunity to shape your own role, influence how the finance function develops and work closely with an experienced FP&A Director who has progressed internally himself.

If you're looking for a business where your career can grow alongside the company, where your ideas will be valued and where you'll be encouraged to develop, we'd love to hear from you.