The Company:
Are you a newly qualified accountant looking to take your first step from practice into a commercially focused finance role? This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-performing finance team where you’ll gain exposure to FP&A, profitability modelling, automation, and business partnering - all while learning from experienced senior leaders.As Finance Analyst, you’ll play a key role in enhancing financial insight, improving reporting, and supporting the development of robust profitability analysis. This position is ideal for someone moving out of practice and wanting to build the foundations of a strong commercial finance career.
The Role:You’ll support the Finance function in delivering high-quality financial analysis, reporting automation, and operational insight. Working closely with operational and senior finance stakeholders, your work will directly influence strategic decision making.Key areas of responsibility include:
Financial Reporting & Analysis:
*Supporting the month-end close and reporting cycles
*Delivering insightful variance analysis (actuals, budget, forecast)
*Maintaining and enhancing profitability models
*Validating and reconciling data between GL and operational systems
*Analysing key cost drivers and KPI’s
*Working with business to understand performance drivers
*Supporting senior leaders with board and management reporting
*Taking on ad-hoc analytical projects for the Finance leadership team
Systems, Modelling & Automation:
*Developing and improving reporting through Power BI
*Supporting data extraction and transformation using Excel / Power Query
*Enhancing financial models
*Participating in finance transformation and reporting improvement initiatives
About YouWe’re looking for someone with a strong analytical mindset and a natural curiosity about the commercial story behind the numbers. You’ll enjoy working with data, systems and stakeholders alike, and be keen to grow into a broad-ranging commercial finance role.
Essential:
*Newly qualified ACA (or equivalent)
*Trained in audit or accounting practice, ideally from a Big 4 Accounting firm or top10.
*Strong Excel capability (pivot tables, lookups, structured modelling)
*Solid understanding of financial statements




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