Finance Analyst

SF Partners; Painswick; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

SF Partners are recruiting a Finance Analyst to join the finance team in a broad analytical role. The position focuses on pricing, forecasting, management reporting and decision support, offering senior exposure and long-term development.

You will create and maintain customer price lists, apply complex pricing updates, manage end-to-end pricing processes and support tender analyses while working with finance, sales and logistics teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial finance, management accounts or financial analysis.
• Ability to work with pricing, forecasting and reporting.
• Strong Excel and data management skills.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain and update customer price lists across product categories.
• Apply and validate pricing updates across customer-specific structures and freight arrangements.
• Manage end-to-end pricing process: approvals, publishing, document generation and archiving.
• Produce customer pricing files across systems and Excel.
• Ensure pricing accuracy and consistency across processes.
• Investigate pricing discrepancies and support urgent commercial requests.
• Collaborate with finance, sales, purchasing, logistics and commercial teams.
• Provide finance and commercial administration support including reconciliations and reporting.

Skills

Pricing analysis

Financial forecasting

Management reporting

Excel

Tools

Excel

ERP/Finance software

Job description

SF Partners are working with a well-established and highly regarded business to recruit an Finance Analyst into their finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build their career in a commercially focused finance role, with exposure to financial planning, pricing, forecasting, management reporting, cashflow analysis and decision support. The role would suit someone already working in commercial finance, management accounts or financial analysis.

The Role:

• Create, maintain and update customer price lists across multiple product categories using internal systems and Excel.
• Apply and validate complex pricing updates across customer-specific pricing structures and freight arrangements.
• Manage the end-to-end pricing process, including approvals, publishing, document generation and archiving.
• Produce and maintain customer pricing files across internal systems and Excel.
• Ensure pricing accuracy and consistency across multiple systems and processes.
• Investigate and resolve pricing discrepancies while supporting urgent commercial requests.
• Work closely with finance, sales, purchasing, logistics and wider commercial teams.
• Provide additional finance and commercial administration support, including reconciliations, reporting and customer account maintenance.
• Manage multiple priorities accurately while working to tight deadlines.
• Monitor pricing deadlines and maintain accurate schedules of customer price changes.
• Review the margin impact of proposed pricing changes and esc​alate exceptions or commercially sensitive issues.
• Maintain clear version control and accurate records of pricing documents, approvals and supporting calculations.
• Support analysis for customer tenders, rebate reviews and commercial pricing discussions.
• Assist with product setup, data mapping and validation to ensure accurate information across systems.
• Contribute to process improvements across pricing administration, reporting and system controls.

This is a great opportunity to join a successful business in a broad Analytical role offering variety, senior exposure and long-term development.