FP&A Analyst

Lorien; Chilton; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A financial consulting firm is seeking a qualified accountant for a hybrid contract role in Chilton. You will support financial planning, reporting, and analysis, ensuring alignment with financial guidelines. The ideal candidate has proficiency in Microsoft applications and experience in the manufacturing industry. This role offers a 6-month contract with competitive daily rates.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices.
• Experience in financial planning and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support financial planning, analysis, and reporting activities.
• Prepare reports, forecasts, and budgets ensuring accuracy.
• Provide financial analysis to identify key performance drivers.

Skills

Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices

Full proficiency with Microsoft applications

Financial analysis and insights

Experience working within the manufacturing industry

Education

Fully qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

• 6 month contract
• £450 per day (Inside IR35)
• Based in Chilton, Oxford
• Hybrid working, 2-3 days per week on site

Job purpose

This role will report directly to the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager and will be responsible for supporting financial planning, analysis, and reporting activities. The role will involve working closely with various stakeholders to provide accurate financial insights, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic analysis to support decision-making and drive business performance, to drive the best possible financial outcomes for the organisation to ensure growth in revenue and margin.

Support the FP&A Manager in delivering the services under the FP&A tower, executing the following responsibilities:

• Prepare reports, forecasts, and budgets, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to financial guidelines and accounting standards.
• Provide comprehensive financial analysis and insights, including variance analysis, trend analysis, and profitability analysis, to identify key performance drivers, risks, opportunities and enable decisions and actions that drive the best possible financial outcomes.
• Support the business to drive and improve performance, this includes running and delivering first line analysis, drawing conclusions on changes required.
• Prepare presentations and reports for key stakeholder groups (Business Partners, Senior Management), highlighting financial performance, trends, and potential risks
• Compile and analyse data to support the preparation for business performance reviews and business results commentary
• Participate in development of data modelling templates and financial analysis and insight to the Group / Business to drive financial outcomes regarding revenue and margin growth.
• Provide support in monitoring financial & business performance metrics and operational performance measurement metrics (KPIs and SLAs)
• Perform other reasonable duties within the FP&A tower as required.

Experience Required

• Fully qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Perform other reasonable duties within the FP&A tower as required.
• Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices
• Full proficiency with Microsoft applications including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook
• Experience working within the manufacturing industry

Please apply to the advert for more information.