FP&A Analyst

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Overview

Helping Texas businesses hire high-performing Accountants, Controllers & CFOs, with 13+ years specialist experience in UK & US markets. Commercial finance role | High-growth, multi-entity environment

We’re partnering with a growing education group to hire an FP&A Analyst into their expanding finance team. This is a genuinely commercial role with visibility, ownership, and influence, ideal for someone who enjoys turning complex data into insight that actually shapes decisions.

You’ll work closely with a Senior Management Accountant and the wider finance function, supporting planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and performance reporting across multiple entities. If you like building models, improving reporting, and being close to the numbers that drive strategy, this one will keep you interested.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning across multiple entities
• Updating and improving forecasting models around student numbers, staffing, and cost assumptions
• Building scenarios to assess risk and inform management decisions
• Analysing performance data and producing insight-led reporting
• Developing and maintaining KPI dashboards and reporting templates
• Reconciling and reporting on student numbers across the division
• Delivering ad-hoc analysis and projects for senior stakeholders

What we’re looking for

• Strong analytical skills with clear commercial thinking
• Advanced Excel capability (you’re comfortable handling large, complex data sets)
• Experience in FP&A, management accounting, or business analysis
• Confident communicator who can work with stakeholders outside finance
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities

Why this role works

• Remote working (must live in UK)
• Broad exposure across a multi-entity global organisation
• A finance team that’s growing, not standing still
• Real opportunity to improve reporting and add commercial value

If you’re an FP&A Analyst who enjoys ownership, variety and being close to decision-makers, this is worth a conversation.

📩 Apply directly or message me for a confidential chat.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Accounting/Auditing

Industries

• Higher Education