Senior Finance Analyst, Central Finance

Your Role within our Kingdom King's Central Finance team plays a critical role in enabling high-quality financial planning, forecasting, reporting and decision-making across the business, providing the insight, governance and operational excellence that underpin Finance and business decisions. As a Senior Finance Analyst in Central Finance, you will own key Central Finance system processes and continuously improve the process backbone that enables Finance to deliver accurate forecasting, planning and reporting cycles. You’ll help ensure planning inputs, reporting outputs and core finance processes are accurate, well controlled and delivered on time. Working closely with Central Finance, Financial Systems and Finance Business Partner teams, you’ll contribute to clearer processes, delivering insight and more efficient ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Planning, Systems & Reporting
  • Support key Finance planning cycles by coordinating end-to-end inputs, maintaining system readiness and helping ensure timelines and dependencies are well managed.
  • Validate and reconcile financial inputs and outputs, identifying issues, resolving discrepancies and escalating risks where appropriate.
  • Prepare and maintain accurate reporting and KPI outputs, ensuring they are controlled, clearly documented and delivered in line with reporting timelines.
• Process Ownership & Continuous Improvement
  • Maintain and improve assigned Central Finance processes so they are efficient, repeatable, well controlled and clearly documented.
  • Work with Financial Systems and Finance teams to support testing, resolve recurring issues and implement practical process improvements.
  • Support recurring allocations, recharges, adjustments and other centrally managed Finance processes, ensuring outputs are reviewed, reconciled and communicated clearly.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Delivery
  • Build effective relationships across Central Finance, Financial Systems, Finance Business Partner teams and wider stakeholders.
  • Communicate clearly on planning activities, reporting outputs, system issues and process changes.
  • Take ownership of agreed workstreams, following through on actions, anticipating questions and keeping stakeholders aligned on progress.

Skills to Create Thrills

Essential Skills

• Good understanding of FP&A processes, including forecasting, planning, reporting, financial controls, month-close dependencies and the judgement required to apply them accurately within policy.
• Experience working with finance systems, planning tools or reporting platforms, with confidence validating outputs and reconciling data.
• Strong Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial information, identify issues and explain key drivers clearly.
• Organised and detail-oriented, with a strong focus on accuracy, controls, documentation and timely delivery.
• Clear communicator who works well with stakeholders across Finance and Systems, follows through on actions and contributes positively to team ways of working.

Bonus Points

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, working towards qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Oracle Hyperion or other Enterprise Performance Management systems.
• Experience with Power BI, SQL, reporting automation or process improvement tools.