Finance (FP&A) Senior Analyst

Capital One; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site gym

Restaurant at head office

Learning Loft

Private medical insurance

Pension and bonus schemes

Extra leave option (5 days)

Job summary

Capital One UK is seeking an experienced FP&A Senior Analyst in Nottingham. You will drive data-driven insights, build dynamic models, and support senior leadership with budgeting, forecasting, and investment analysis.

This role engages cross-functionally with Finance and business teams to deliver accurate financial narratives. You will partner with the FP&A Director and other leaders, managing portfolio insights and contributing to strategic financial planning.

Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving skills: bridging finance reporting and business context.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical skills: analysing opportunities, variances, and narratives.
• Understanding of accounting principles: P&L, budgeting, forecasting.
• Strong technical skills: Python, SQL, Google Apps Script a plus.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize and simplify financial and non-financial data.
• Develop dynamic financial models and scenario analyses for investments.
• Support investment pitches and long-term forecasts for pitches.
• Assist with ad hoc requests from leadership.
• Contribute to Monthly Financials Review (MFR) and other reporting.
• Drive process improvements within FP&A.

Tools

OneStream

Workday

G-Suite

Microsoft Office

Job description

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Finance (FP&A) Senior Analyst

Location: Nottingham - Hybrid Working Pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote.

Our Mission

We’re on a mission to be a force for good in lending. Throughout our almost 30-year history, we’ve consistently been recognised as a great place to work; in 2026, Capital One was officially ranked 9th in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list. Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Capital One UK.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced FP&A Analyst to help drive our best-in-class FP&A team. As a team, we are responsible for a myriad of critical items, including senior stakeholder engagement, insight-focused analysis of our portfolio, and the presentation of key actionable insights to senior stakeholders. The role adds significant value to Finance’s business partnering capability by providing accurate and important information to drive key business decisions. With the support of your manager, you will be responsible for responding to requests from business leadership, the FP&A Director, and other colleagues within the Finance department. The role involves in-depth analysis of our portfolio, as well as specialised projects for the broader business and Finance team.

What you’ll be doing

• Synthesising and simplifying financial and non-financial data.
• Developing dynamic financial models and scenario analyses for strategic investments and different parts of our portfolio.
• Supporting investment pitches, assessing their impacts on annual budgets, and creating longer-term forecasts for those pitches.
• Supporting ad hoc requests from leadership.
• Working with team members and the wider FP&A team to feed into Monthly Financials Review (MFR) meetings and/or other reporting requirements.
• Driving forward process improvement-related activities for the benefit of the department.

Supporting usual FP&A tasks, such as:

• Producing month-end reporting.
• Reporting and consolidating budgets.
• Developing reports to facilitate the monitoring and communication of performance against targets, and supporting the review of outlooks (e.g., forecasts) and budgets.
• Ensuring reporting reflects the most up-to-date and accurate information available.

How you’ll be doing it

• Utilising all systems and applications relevant to the required outputs of the role (e.g., OneStream, Workday, G-Suite, Microsoft Office).
• Investigating new technologies and tools, and supporting process improvement workstreams.
• Using business knowledge to ensure work remains focused on key finance priorities.
• Pushing the envelope of our capabilities via new data integration and automation.
• Focusing on key risks and opportunities.
• Collaborating with business contacts and finance teams across the organisation to deliver optimal outcomes.

What we’re looking for

• Strong problem-solving skills: The ability to bridge the gap between financial reporting and our business's day-to-day activities, ensuring our leaders have the financial context they need when making key decisions.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills: Capable of working effectively with teams both internal and external to Finance.
• Strong analytical skills: Analysing investment opportunities, identifying variances against forecasts, ensuring accuracy, spotting errors, and framing the overall narrative by asking the right questions.
• Functional knowledge of accounting principles: e.g., P&L, budgeting, forecasting, etc.
• Strong technical skills. (Familiarity with Python, SQL, Google Apps Script (think VBA), etc. is a major plus!)
• Excellent communication skills: The ability to tailor written and verbal communications to diverse audiences, both within and outside of Finance.
• Strategic coordination: The ability to coordinate a complex set of inputs with different drivers, timelines, and priorities, and synthesise them into a cohesive narrative.
• A growth mindset: A continuous improvement and change-agile mentality.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We embrace a hybrid approach to work. You'll spend three days a week in the office (Tuesday-Thursday), with Monday and Friday being dedicated work-from-home days. Our offices are designed to inspire and support you. At our Nottingham head office, you'll find an on-site gym, restaurant and dedicated Learning Loft.

What’s in it for you

We invest in the growth of our people alongside our business.

You will have extensive opportunities to learn and develop your career, including access to up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications.

• Wealth & Future: Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes.
• Holidays: Start with 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure. Need more? You have the option to buy 5 additional days.
• Health: Access premium care through our private medical insurance.
• Family Support: We champion your milestones with enhanced parental leave.

A full list of our benefits is available here.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.