Finance Analyst 6-12 Months FTC

Summary: The Finance Analyst role involves collaborating with Finance Business Partners to enhance financial planning and performance across various sectors within the organization. This position is ideal for candidates who are immediately available or can enter the job market on short notice. The role encompasses responsibilities such as budgeting, forecasting, and producing financial reports. It offers a significant opportunity for those with strong analytical skills and FP&A experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the end-to-end budgeting and forecasting cycle, including annual budgets and regular reforecasts, ensuring accuracy across multiple sectors
• Partnering with Finance Business Partners to analyse financial performance, providing clear explanations of variances against budget and forecast
• Producing and owning regular KPI and financial reports, ensuring data is accurate, consistent, and adds real commercial value
• Delivering meaningful variance analysis, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities to support decision-making
• Responding to ad hoc analysis requests, turning complex data into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders
• Supporting financial governance and controls, ensuring reporting is aligned with accounting standards and SOX requirements where applicable
• Working closely with regional teams to review, challenge, and validate financial assumptions and performance trends
• Consolidating contract and sector-level results, providing a clear view of revenue, cost, margin, and cash flow across the portfolio
• Providing insightful commentary and reporting packs for senior leadership, helping to drive performance and strategic decision-making

Key Skills:

• Strong FP&A experience (budgeting, forecasting, scenario modelling)
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to turn data into actionable insight
• Confident communicator, able to influence senior stakeholders
• Highly organised and able to meet tight reporting deadlines
• Experience working across multiple business units or sectors is a bonus

Salary (Rate): £40,000 per annum

City: Leeds

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Finance