Financial Analyst in Bristol

Be part of a community working together to make science better. A society publisher with the perfect blend of not-for-profit purpose and commercial perspective. Here, we help each other be the best we can be: a team big enough to impact and small enough to care. We are currently recruiting for an experienced Finance Analyst to join our Bristol based team.

What will you be doing? The Finance Analyst role is a key position within the Management Reporting (MR) team at IOP Publishing, supporting one or more business functions. In this role, you’ll contribute to core financial activities including management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and delivering meaningful financial insights to the business. You’ll also support cost management, alongside revenue and cost analysis, helping to inform decision‑making across the business. Working closely with Management Accountants, you’ll partner with our Commercial Finance team, supporting financial processes and ensuring compliance with relevant financial standards, policies, and procedures. A key focus of this role is development within the Business Intelligence (BI) space. You’ll be encouraged to engage with evolving BI tools, AI‑driven solutions, and front‑end dashboard reporting to enhance how data is used and presented across the organisation. There is a strong culture of continuous improvement within the team, and you’ll be empowered to think creatively, challenge existing processes, and drive positive change, with a clear focus on improving efficiency and effectiveness across all areas of work.

Key job accountabilities include:

• Monitoring financial processes and ensuring compliance, maintaining effective financial controls to support business transactions.
• Supporting the development of annual plans, budgets, and forecasts, aligned to functional goals and objectives.
• Producing and maintaining accurate revenue and cost reporting within the business unit.
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations for review by the Management Accountants.
• Providing support in the targets and commissions process.
• Assisting in the review of business transactions to ensure they are recorded in line with internal and external accounting policies and standards.
• Supporting the delivery of management information and reporting to functional teams, enabling effective financial control and informed commercial decision‑making.
• Contributing to the development of reporting requirements and Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives within the team.
• Preparing management accounting information for distribution and presentation to external partners.
• Supporting audit processes, including the preparation of required documentation and responses to audit requests.

About you:

• Finance and accounting background
• Experience of financial modelling
• Business analysis skills including process documentation/analysis and visualisation
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methods and application is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of Business Intelligence applications is desirable
• Advanced excel, PowerPoint, and data visualisation.
• Experience using Power BI and Salesforce desirable but not essential

We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply. We pride ourselves on being a flexible and inclusive employer, if you have a preference to work flexibly, please do apply.

Who We Are: IOP Publishing is a society‑owned scientific publisher, providing impact, recognition and value for the scientific community. As the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, 100% of our profit goes towards public and scientific good.

Why work with us at IOP Publishing:

• Purpose: We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.
• Culture: We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.
• Financial benefits: A competitive salary starting from £27,000 (Band B) depending on experience, an excellent pension scheme, a discretionary annual bonus scheme and a range of other useful and cost‑saving benefits available through our benefits platform.
• Health and Wellbeing: 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), plus an extra day’s leave to use for a moment that matters to you, a 35‑hour working week, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol – modern, airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time.
• Flexibility: a flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs– we don’t need you in the office every day so we can consider applicants from further afield who can travel to Bristol likely two to three times per month depending on when face to face time is needed (any travel to the Bristol office is at the employees own expenses).

And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique: IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not‑for‑profit society and we gift‑aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.

To apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter through our careers site. IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under‑represented backgrounds. We make recruitment and workplace adjustments wherever we can, so please let us know if there’s anything that we can do to support you. Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates. If however you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit or visa, we encourage you to apply for this position.