Financial Planning Analyst in York

FP&A Analyst – Contract

• 2-3 days per week in Billingham, Teeside office
• Hybrid
• Inside IR35

Principal accountabilities

Support the FP&A Manager in delivering the services under the FP&A tower, executing the following responsibilities:

• Prepare reports, forecasts, and budgets, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to financial guidelines and accounting standards.
• Provide comprehensive financial analysis and insights, including variance analysis, trend analysis, and profitability analysis, to identify key performance drivers, risks, opportunities and enable decisions and actions that drive the best possible financial outcomes.
• Support the business to drive and improve performance, this includes running and delivering first line analysis, drawing conclusions on changes required.
• Prepare presentations and reports for key stakeholder groups (Business Partners, Senior Management), highlighting financial performance, trends, and potential risks
• Compile and analyse data to support the preparation for business performance reviews and business results commentary.
• Participate in development of data modelling templates and financial analysis and insight to the Group / Business to drive financial outcomes regarding revenue and margin growth.
• Participate in cross-functional projects and initiatives, providing financial expertise and guidance to support business growth, process optimisation, and risk management.
• Perform continuous improvement initiatives to enhance financial planning and analysis capabilities, streamline processes, and improve data integrity and accuracy.
• Provide support in monitoring financial & business performance metrics and operational performance measurement metrics (KPIs and SLAs)
• Perform other reasonable duties within the FP&A tower as required.

Person specification

• Must have CIMA or ACA, ACCA qualification.