Finance Analyst — Power BI & Cost Insight (Hybrid)

The AA; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days' annual leave

Pension contributions up to 7%

Free AA breakdown membership from Day

GP and wellbeing support

Employee discounts

Job summary

The AA in Basingstoke is seeking a finance professional to help manage the Roadside Outdoor cost base, supporting 3,000 employees across Patrols and Garaging. You will turn historic and projected performance into clear insights and dashboards.

You will partner with Operational leaders and MI teams to shape budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling for contracts and business cases, using Excel and Power BI, with opportunities to automate reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to interpret large financial and operational datasets and turn them into meaningful insight.
• A good understanding of management accounting, including month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Strong Power BI capability, with experience developing dashboards and management reporting for finance and non-finance audiences.
• Advanced Excel skills, including experience analysing and reconciling large datasets with a strong focus on accuracy.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to explain, challenge and influence across finance and operational teams.
• Qualified accountant, or part-qualified with significant experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyse monthly financial and operational performance against budget and forecast, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities so stakeholders can act on clear insight.
• Partner with Financial Reporting to support accurate, timely month-end reporting and robust review and reconciliation of financial information.
• Develop reporting, analysis and Power BI dashboards that improve visibility of spend, trends, cost drivers and Cost per Case across Outdoor Operations.
• Support budgeting and forecasting with operational stakeholders, strengthening key assumptions and improving forecast accuracy.
• Provide financial modelling and analysis for contract reviews, business cases and operational decisions, helping teams understand financial implications and options.
• Track benefits from cost-saving and efficiency initiatives, challenging assumptions and highlighting risks to delivery against forecast.
• Simplify and improve financial processes, reporting and data by working across Finance, Planning & Performance and MI and making effective use of Excel, Power BI, AI and other available tools.

Skills

Data analytics

Power BI

Excel

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

Qualified accountant or part-qualified

Tools

Power BI

Excel

AI tools

Job description

The AA in Basingstoke is seeking a finance professional to help manage the Roadside Outdoor cost base, supporting 3,000 employees across Patrols and Garaging. You will turn historic and projected performance into clear insights and dashboards.

You will partner with Operational leaders and MI teams to shape budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling for contracts and business cases, using Excel and Power BI, with opportunities to automate reporting.