Group Finance Analyst

Mail Metrics; Huddersfield; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salaries

26 Days Holidays plus Bank Holidays

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity

Refer a Friend Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Electric Car Scheme

Eye Tests

Free on-site Parking

Job summary

Mail Metrics is seeking a Group Finance Analyst to deliver accurate sales, margin and profitability reporting for 400+ UK & Ireland clients. You will consolidate data from multiple systems, translate it into board-level insight and support budgeting, forecasting and revenue analysis.

Working with Finance and commercial teams, you will enhance client profitability reporting and contribute to commercial decision-making. A formal accounting qualification is beneficial but not essential.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills to manipulate and analyse large datasets from multiple sources.
• Experience producing accurate sales, margin, profitability or other commercial performance reporting.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen to understand revenue, margin and profitability drivers.
• Good understanding of revenue recognition and accrual accounting principles.
• Experience using or maintaining Power BI dashboards.
• Attention to detail with data quality and accuracy.
• Ability to investigate variances, challenge assumptions and turn analysis into insight.
• Excellent communication and business partnering skills across Finance and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate sales, margin and profitability reporting for 400+ clients across the UK & Ireland.
• Analyse performance across six product activities and four legal entities with clear commentary.
• Calculate and report margin by client, product and site with consistent methodologies.
• Develop client profitability reporting to improve account performance and support commercial decisions.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Revenue recognition

Financial acumen

Data analysis

AI tools

Education

Finance/accounting qualification

Tools

Sage

Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Xero

Job description

Join our FP&A team, turning complex data into clear commercial insight across 400+ UK & Ireland clients. You'll influence sales, margin and profitability reporting while supporting forecasting, budgeting and revenue analysis. If you're commercially minded, analytically strong and passionate about making numbers drive better decisions, we'd love to hear from you.

Main Purpose of the Role:

The Group Finance Analyst sits within the FP&A department and provides accurate, timely and commercially relevant sales, margin and profitability reporting across more than 400 clients in the UK and Ireland. The role consolidates high volumes of data from multiple systems and translates them into clear insight at Board, client, product and site level.

Working closely with Account Development, Client Experience and Finance, the role supports revenue recognition, sales and rebate accruals, budgeting and forecasting, and the continued development of client profitability reporting. It is suited to a commercially minded analyst with strong financial acumen; a formal accounting qualification is beneficial but not essential.

Location:

Huddersfield (Hybrid)

Role Description:

Reporting and Commercial Insight

• Produce accurate and timely sales, margin and profitability reporting for more than 400 clients across the UK and Ireland.
• Analyse performance across six product activities and four legal entities, providing clear commentary on trends, risks, opportunities and key performance drivers.
• Calculate and report margin by client, product and site, ensuring consistent and transparent reporting methodologies.
• Develop client profitability reporting to improve understanding of account performance and support commercial decision‑making.

Planning and Business Partnering

• Partner with the Account Development team to collate, validate and analyse sales and margin data for budgets and forecasts.
• Challenge forecast and budget assumptions, investigate variances and build a detailed understanding of client account performance.
• Liaise with the Billing and Client Experience teams, which undertake billing activities, to resolve data, revenue and billing queries.
• Communicate financial analysis clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders and support evidence‑based commercial decisions.

Data, Systems and Reporting

• Extract, combine, reconcile and analyse large volumes of data from Sage, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Xero.
• Maintain and update Power BI dashboards, including changes to reporting logic, data structures and presentation as business requirements evolve.
• Improve the efficiency, accuracy and usability of recurring reports through better processes, automation and appropriate use of AI tools.
• Provide ad‑hoc Excel and data analysis support to the Finance team and wider business.

Financial Control

• Prepare and post sales and rebate accruals accurately and in line with the month‑end timetable.
• Apply a sound understanding of revenue recognition principles to reporting and accounting activities.
• Reconcile outputs across multiple systems and entities, investigate discrepancies and maintain robust reporting controls.
• Maintain high standards of data integrity, accuracy and attention to detail.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance reports, dashboards and analytical processes.
• Adopt a proactive, can‑do approach to solving data and reporting challenges.
• Develop new analysis that improves understanding of performance at overall business, client, product and site level.

Required Qualification/Experience/Skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to manipulate, reconcile and analyse large datasets from multiple sources.
• Experience producing accurate sales, margin, profitability or other commercial performance reporting.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to understand revenue, margin and profitability drivers.
• Good understanding of revenue recognition and accrual accounting principles.
• Experience using or maintaining Power BI dashboards.
• Excellent attention to detail, with a strong focus on data quality and accuracy.
• Ability to investigate variances, challenge assumptions and turn analysis into clear, actionable insight.
• Confident communication and business partnering skills, with the ability to work effectively across Finance and commercial teams.
• Proactive, organised and improvement‑focused approach, with the ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Competence in using AI‑enabled productivity and analytical tools responsibly and effectively.

Desirable

• Experience working in an FP&A, commercial finance, finance analyst or data analyst role.
• Experience of Sage, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Xero.
• Experience supporting budgeting and forecasting in a multi‑entity or multi‑product environment.
• Experience developing client, customer, product or site profitability reporting.
• A finance, accounting, business or analytical qualification, or part‑qualification with a recognised professional body.

Company Benefits:

• Competitive Salaries
• 26 Days Holidays plus Bank Holidays
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Eye Tests
• Free on-site Parking