Finance Analyst 12 Month FTC in Edinburgh

Want to be part of a UK hub, in a global business that is scaling rapidly, evolving fast and radically changing the decades-old delivery universe?

If so, read on — we're looking for a Finance Analyst to support our Finance Business Partners.

Our mission?

To switch up the status quo and become the UK's leading out-of-home business.

With a fast-growing network of thousands of smart lockers, hundreds of leading retail partners and our transformative Send service, we're bringing freedom to anyone with a parcel.

At In Post UK, we're building an unparalleled group of talent committed to reshaping the way parcels move and redefining e Commerce logistics.

Our team is packed full of top-notch experts in e-commerce, technology, scale-up growth, sustainability, logistics and supply chain — a passionate bunch with high ambition.

• WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
• Business Partnering Support
• Support your Finance Business Partner in building a close working relationship with their business area, preparing briefing materials and financial context ahead of leadership and management meetings.
• Develop a working understanding of the commercial and operational drivers of your FBP's business area, so that your analysis is grounded in what actually matters to the stakeholders being supported.
• Help identify financial risks and opportunities within the business area, flagging anomalies or emerging trends in the data to your FBP before they surface in the management accounts.
• Respond to day-to-day queries from business stakeholders on straightforward financial questions, escalating anything requiring additional judgement or a difficult conversation to your FBP.
• Monthly Performance Reporting & Commentary
• Investigate the drivers behind significant variances to budget or forecast, providing your FBP with the underlying detail needed to write insightful, explanatory commentary.
• Maintain reporting templates and working files so that month-end production is efficient, consistent and easy for others to pick up.
• Support continuous improvement of management reporting — identifying opportunities to automate recurring tasks, reduce production time and improve the clarity of outputs.
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Modelling
• Support the budget and re-forecast process for your FBP's business area, building and maintaining the underlying models, consolidating inputs from budget holders and checking calculations for accuracy.
• Maintain rolling forecast trackers throughout the year, flagging material movements to your FBP as they emerge.
• Build and update financial models and scenario analysis to support decision-making — including investment cases, pricing sensitivities, volume scenarios and cost lever evaluation — under the direction of your FBP.
• Support the annual five-year plan (5YP) process for your business area, preparing supporting schedules and data packs as required.
• Data, Systems & Financial Accounting Interface
• Support your FBP in liaising with the Financial Controllers on business events affecting the close — such as accruals, one-off items, recharges or timing differences — helping to ensure the accounting team has the context they need.
• Maintain clear, well-documented working files and models so that assumptions, sources and calculations are transparent and can be reviewed or picked up by others.
• Participate in Finance team meetings and close reviews as needed, contributing data and analysis to support wider Controlling and Financial Accounting discussions.
• Investment Appraisal, Cost Analysis & Commercial Support
• Support the preparation of investment and business cases for MCA or other governance submissions, building supporting financial models and sense-checking assumptions.
• Provide granular cost centre and department-level analysis to support budget holders in managing their cost and/or revenue base, highlighting cost lines running ahead of plan.
• Produce ad hoc financial and commercial analysis to support decision-making — including for example, pricing sensitivities, volume-mix-margin bridges and profitability assessments.
• Help develop and maintain financial and commercial KPI dashboards for the business area, using Power BI, Excel or equivalent tools to make insight accessible to non-finance audiences.
• WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

We're looking for people who are ready for a fast-paced environment, get their kicks out of problem solving and can balance getting today's stuff done, whilst building for the future.

We're looking for people with drive and natural curiosity — who want to do things differently.

And do them brilliantly.

Qualifications & Experience

• Part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) actively studying towards a professional qualification, or a graduate with strong analytical experience in a finance or commercial analyst role.
• Experience supporting month-end reporting, budgeting or forecasting processes, ideally within a finance business partnering or management accounting environment.
• Strong Excel skills, including financial modelling, pivot tables and large data sets; familiarity with Power BI, Anaplan or similar planning and reporting tools is an advantage.
• Experience in a multi-entity, high-volume operational business — logistics, distribution, e-commerce, retail or similar — is desirable but not essential.

Skills & Competencies

• Analytically curious — enjoys getting into the detail of the data and figuring out what it's really telling you.
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical, well-organised approach to building and checking models and reports.
• A clear communicator, comfortable presenting analysis to your Finance Business Partner and, increasingly, to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proactive and deadline-driven — able to manage the competing demands of the month-end, forecast and budget cycle without losing quality.