Finance Analyst

Sowena are excited to be looking for an experienced FP&A professional to join a growing PE-backed organisation in North Manchester as a Finance Analyst.

I am looking for someone who is strong on excel and producing financial models. You'll be comfortable working with financial data, producing meaningful analysis and communicating your findings clearly to stakeholders, non-finance and finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the monthly FP&A reporting cycle, producing accurate and timely financial reporting and analysis.
• Analyse financial performance, identifying key trends, variances, risks and opportunities.
• Prepare regular management reporting, dashboards and supporting commentary.
• Support the annual budgeting and rolling forecasting processes.
• Work with stakeholders across the business to gather information and ensure forecasts and budgets are accurate and complete.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support forecasting, scenario analysis and business planning.
• Analyse financial and operational data and translate findings into clear, useful insight.
• Investigate variances and provide analysis to help stakeholders understand business performance.
• Support Finance Business Partners and the wider FP&A team with commercial analysis and ad-hoc requests.
• Provide financial analysis to support projects, business cases and investment decisions.

You'll have:

• Part or fully ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified or QBE
• Experience within FP&A, commercial finance and finance business partnering.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting processes.
• Strong Excel skills, including financial modelling and analysis of large data sets.
• Good commercial awareness and an ability to understand the drivers behind financial performance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience developing financial models or undertaking scenario analysis.

Desirable Experience

• Experience using Power BI or similar reporting and visualisation tools.
• Experience working with ERP or finance systems.