Commercial Finance Analyst

Aegon UK; Witham; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with employer contribution

Discretionary bonus

34 days leave

Private medical cover

Life assurance

Critical illness cover

Parental leave

Lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Aegon UK in Witham is seeking a Commercial Finance Analyst to support financial planning, forecasting and reporting within a hybrid work model, requiring in-person collaboration at least 40% of the time.

You will partner with senior leaders, deliver robust financial analysis, and contribute to budgeting and forecasting activities to improve profitability. Aegon UK offers pension benefits, bonus potential and extensive leave.

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance function with financial reporting and analysis.
• Management accounting including month-end activities, journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Strong Excel skills and the ability to analyse and interpret financial data.
• Good understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet reporting and finance ledgers.
• Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly.
• Studying towards ACCA, CIMA or ACA or equivalent qualification is preferred though not essential.

Responsibilities

• Support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting across the business.
• Analyze financial performance, including variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
• Produce and deliver accurate month-end reporting, ensuring deadlines are met and outputs support effective decision-making.
• Partner with business stakeholders and senior leaders to provide financial insight and challenge where required.
• Support the annual planning process and ongoing forecasting cycle, helping to drive financial performance and profitability.
• Complete key financial control activities, including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments and management reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

Management accounting

Excel skills

Stakeholder management

Financial reporting

Attention to detail

Education

Accounting qualification

Job description

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Commercial Finance Analyst

Permanent

Location: Witham (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Salary: A competitive salary from £33,520 – £50,280 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 1 October 2026

We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. We work with customers, financial advisers and employers to provide pensions, savings and investment solutions.

We help people live their best lives

We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

As a Commercial Finance Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis across Aegon UK. Working within the Commercial Finance team, you’ll provide meaningful insight into business performance, helping stakeholders understand financial results, identify risks and opportunities, and make informed commercial decisions.

Partnering with senior leaders and business teams, you’ll contribute to budgeting and forecasting activities, deliver accurate month-end reporting, and provide robust financial analysis that supports profitability and strategic objectives. This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional looking to develop their commercial finance and business partnering experience within a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting activities across the business.

• Analyse financial performance, including variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.

• Produce and deliver accurate month-end reporting, ensuring deadlines are met and outputs support effective decision-making.

• Partner with business stakeholders and senior leaders to provide financial insight and challenge where required.

• Support the annual planning process and ongoing forecasting cycle, helping to drive financial performance and profitability.

• Complete key financial control activities, including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments and management reporting.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience working within a finance function, with a strong understanding of financial reporting and analysis.

• Management accounting experience, including month-end activities, journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.

• Strong Excel skills and the ability to analyse and interpret financial data.

• Good understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet reporting and finance ledgers.

• Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly.

• Studying towards a professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) or equivalent relevant finance qualification is preferred though not essential.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us).

• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance

• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our careers site.

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexualorientationor gender identity.