Financial Analyst

JR United Kingdom; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent life sciences company seeks a motivated Financial Analyst to enhance their finance operations. The successful candidate will be integral in forecasting, reporting, and process improvement within a collaborative team environment. Offering remote work flexibility along with generous holiday and ongoing professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible remote working

Generous holiday package

Regular salary reviews

Enhanced pension contributions

Health & wellbeing cover

Life assurance

Team building days

Support for personal development

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-entity, multi-currency environments.
• Familiarity with financial systems and process improvement.
• Self-starter with strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead forecasting and modelling for financial insights.
• Produce monthly reports and cashflow forecasts.
• Champion system improvements for financial infrastructure.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Analytical Thinking

Data Integration

Revenue Recognition

Power BI

Education

ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

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You'll be part of a mission-driven business, working with a collaborative, supportive team that values both people and performance. The company culture is open, ambitious, and respectful-with a strong focus on getting the work done without unnecessary complexity.

This is an opportunity to shape and optimise finance in a business that's truly making a difference

You'll work across forecasting, financial reporting, and process improvement-playing a key role in delivering the data and insight that fuels strategic decisions across the business.

We're partnered with an ambitious and growing business in the life sciences space, who are on a mission to simplify risk-based quality management in clinical trials. Their technology directly improves the safety and efficiency of trials-contributing to life-saving outcomes. As they continue to scale, they're looking for a commercially astute Financial Analyst to join their high-performing Finance team.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead forecasting and modelling: Maintain and refine the company's Win & Revenue forecast and support the evolution of broader financial models.
• Produce insightful reporting: Own monthly sales win reporting, produce rolling cashflow forecasts, and contribute to monthly management packs with actionable insights.
• Support financial operations: Assist in preparing year-end audit schedules and contribute to the company's R&D Tax Credit submissions.
• Drive systems improvement: Help implement a fixed asset tracking system and support finance-led system and reporting upgrades.
• Champion process enhancement: Contribute to projects aimed at improving financial infrastructure and standardising reporting across the group.

What they're looking for:

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent experience with strong financial grounding)
• Advanced Excel user, confident with pivot tables, modelling, and data integration
• Comfortable creating professional, insightful presentations using PowerPoint
• Strong analytical thinker with great attention to detail
• Self-starter, confident managing your own workload in a remote environment
• Familiarity with ARR and revenue recognition
• Power BI or similar BI/reporting tools
• Experience in multi-entity, multi-currency environments
• Exposure to finance system implementation or process improvement initiatives

What's on offer:

• Remote-working - flexible approach, with coworking access when needed
• Generous holiday - 27 days + Christmas shutdown + additional days for each year of service (up to 30)
• Regular salary reviews - pay is benchmarked at the higher end of the market
• Enhanced pension contributions - via a salary sacrifice scheme post-probation
• Health & wellbeing cover - cashback on medical treatments, counselling, and virtual GP access
• Life assurance - 4x salary from day one
• In-person team days - plus an annual company-wide event
• Personal development - regular reviews, goal-setting, and support for ongoing training

EA First Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency for this permanent vacancy.