Finance Analyst in Bournemouth

Location: Hurn, Dorset

Hours: Full-time 37 hours | Permanent

Draken believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.

The Role

We are currently recruiting for Finance Analyst to join our growing Finance team. This is a key role within our Finance team, with ownership of fixed asset accounting and lease reporting across the UK business. You’ll play an important part in ensuring accuracy, supporting decision-making, and helping maintain strong financial controls. Alongside this, you’ll support with monthly reporting, capital expenditure forecasting, and year-end audit activity, acting as a deputy to the Group Accounting Manager when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Fixed Assets & Capex
  • Own the end-to-end accounting of fixed and intangible assets across the Group
  • Manage and maintain the Fixed Asset Register, ensuring accuracy and completeness
  • Lead on the UK capital expenditure budget and forecasts, working with stakeholders to track changes and keep forecasts up to date
  • Run monthly depreciation, including any adjustments, and ensure correct allocation to contracts where required
  • Review assets under construction and support accurate capitalisation decisions
• Leases (IFRS 16)
  • Manage lease accounting across the business, including aircraft, buildings and vehicles
  • Maintain lease schedules and ensure all lease changes are appropriately reflected
  • Work with teams across the business to identify new leases and ensure correct accounting treatment
• Reporting & Audit
  • Support month-end close, including management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations
  • Assist with group reporting requirements and reconciliations between reporting frameworks
  • Support external audit processes, including responding to queries and preparing documentation
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
  • Work closely with Finance and operational teams to improve processes and financial insight
  • Challenge existing approaches and look for ways to improve efficiency and accuracy

Experience / skills / qualifications

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified or part-qualified
• Strong understanding of accounting standards (particularly IFRS 16, IAS 16 and IAS 38)
• Confident working with complex data and strong Excel skills
• Commercially minded with a proactive and curious approach
• Able to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines
• Strong communicator, comfortable working with both finance and non-finance stakeholders

Our employee values

Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all. At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect. We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications. In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.