Finance Analyst

Randstad; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Finance Analyst to join a market-leading digital travel company in Manchester. This 3-month hybrid role involves creating variance analyses, supporting business decision-making with data, and providing insights into trading activities. The ideal candidate will have 1-2 years of data processing experience, strong stakeholder relationship development skills, and familiarity with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau. Competitive day rate available.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of data processing experience.
• 2+ years experience in a financial analyst role.
• Commercial experience with data visualisation tools.

Responsibilities

• Create variance analysis comparing performance of KPIs.
• Support decision making with data analysis.
• Provide insights into past and future trading activities.

Skills

Data processing

Stakeholder relationship development

Data visualisation

Tools

SQL

Hadoop

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

We are partnering with a market leading digital travel company in their search for a Finance Analyst within their Financial Planning & Analysis team. This role is based in Manchester, and will run for 3 months initially, offering hybrid working (1 per week in the office) and a day rate of up to £358 per day via umbrella (or PAYE equivalent) for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

As the Finance Analyst, you will be responsible for:

• Creating variance analysis comparing performance of KPIs with agreed targets and budgets
• Support business decision making through exploring business questions using data analysis and visualisation
• Support the business by providing information and insight into past, current and potential future trading activities, highlighting opportunities and risks to improve business performance
• Support on rebates analysis - tracking performance, producing reconciliations, reporting to finance, producing scenario analysis to assist with profitability decisions
• Build & maintain regular reporting
• Develop efficient, automated reporting as requested by the business on an ad hoc basis
• Maintain key reports, metrics and workflows running within their scope
• Support the business planning processes by forecasting the relevant KPI performance
• Support on commercially focused projects, providing relevant insights, reporting and financial impact information

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of data processing experience (SQL, Hadoop, Excel etc.)
• 2+ years experience within a financial analyst role for a large organisation
• Commercial experience using data visualisation skills (Power BI, Tableau, Excel etc.)
• Ability to effectively develop strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business

Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003