Finance Analyst
4 days ago
Scunthorpe
Finance Analyst - Fully Qualified Accountant Salary: £45,000-£50,000 + excellent benefits (Work Level 6) Location: Manchester/Scunthorpe (hybrid - typically 2-3 days across both locations, including at least one day per week in Scunthorpe) Overview We're working with a large, fast-growing organisation undergoing a period of transformation and investment. As they strengthen their financial planning and reporting capability, they're looking for a fully qualified Finance Analyst to deliver high-quality insight, modelling, and performance reporting across key business areas. This is a great opportunity to join a business with a refreshed structure, ambitious growth plans, and a real commitment to improving forecasting, reporting, and financial decision-making. Why this role matters The organisation is focused on enhancing its commercial proposition, improving financial performance, and supporting better long-term planning. This role is central to that ambition, helping to: • shape budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans, • provide data-driven insight that supports operational and strategic decisions, • improve the consistency of financial reporting, • Build financial plans using robust modelling techniques and sound assumptions, • Develop forecasts, budgets and multi-year strategic plans, • Consolidate inputs and produce high-quality performance reporting packs, • Own monthly reporting for your designated area, • Analyse financial results and explain key variances across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, • Deliver reconciliations and deep-dive analysis to support business partners, • Present financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences, • Build strong relationships across operational and strategic teams, • Support continuous improvement of forecasting and reporting processes, • A full accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) - essential, • Strong experience across forecasting, budgeting, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, • Excellent Excel skills (advanced formulas, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables) and familiarity with planning/reporting tools, • Strong analytical mindset with exceptional attention to detail, • Ability to prioritise and work effectively in a fast-paced environment, • Confidence presenting financial insights to diverse audiences, • A proactive approach with a focus on process improvement and adding value