Finance Analyst Interim
Posted 4 days ago by Cedar
£75,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
London
Summary: A global FMCG company is seeking a Qualified Financial Analyst to support its European finance function. This role involves extensive analytical work, focusing on reporting, forecasting, and commercial analysis in a fast-paced environment. The position requires collaboration with various teams to enhance business performance and profitability. The role offers significant exposure to international finance operations and decision-making processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of monthly financial reporting for the region
- Preparation of detailed variance analysis across sales, margin, pricing, and operating expenditure
- Supporting budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning cycles
- Building and maintaining complex financial models and reporting packs
- Analysing commercial performance across customers, products, and channels
- Partnering with commercial and sales teams to support profitability and decision-making
- Supporting month-end close activities and regional reporting submissions
- Assisting with cash flow forecasting and working capital analysis
- Identifying opportunities to improve reporting accuracy, automation, and efficiency
- Providing ad hoc analysis and modelling to support strategic initiatives
- Liaising with FP&A, controllership, and shared service teams across Europe
Key Skills:
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Previous experience within FP&A, commercial finance, or financial analysis roles
- FMCG, consumer, beverage, or multinational experience preferred
- Advanced Excel capability, including financial modelling, Power Query, pivot tables, and scenario analysis
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret large datasets
- Comfortable operating within a fast-paced, high-volume reporting environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management capability across finance and non-finance teams
- SAP, Power BI, or similar reporting tools advantageous
Salary (Rate): £75000 per annum
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Intro
A global listed FMCG business is seeking a Qualified Financial Analyst to support a key European region within its international finance function. This is a highly analytical and commercially focused role within a fast-paced international environment, offering broad exposure across reporting, forecasting, commercial analysis, and business partnering across European markets.
The Company
A globally recognised consumer business operating across multiple international markets, with a strong portfolio of established brands and a significant international footprint.
The business operates within a fast-moving, collaborative environment, combining strong commercial performance with operational scale across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. The finance function plays a critical role in delivering insight, performance analysis, and decision support to regional leadership teams.
The Role
Reporting into the regional finance leadership team, you will support a key European region across reporting, planning, forecasting, and financial performance analysis, partnering closely with commercial, operational, and central finance teams across Europe.
This is a hands-on role requiring strong analytical capability, excellent Excel skills, and the ability to manage and interpret large datasets to support business performance and profitability.
Key responsibilities include:
- Ownership of monthly financial reporting for the region
- Preparation of detailed variance analysis across sales, margin, pricing, and operating expenditure
- Supporting budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning cycles
- Building and maintaining complex financial models and reporting packs
- Analysing commercial performance across customers, products, and channels
- Partnering with commercial and sales teams to support profitability and decision-making
- Supporting month-end close activities and regional reporting submissions
- Assisting with cash flow forecasting and working capital analysis
- Identifying opportunities to improve reporting accuracy, automation, and efficiency
- Providing ad hoc analysis and modelling to support strategic initiatives
- Liaising with FP&A, controllership, and shared service teams across Europe
Your Profile
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Previous experience within FP&A, commercial finance, or financial analysis roles
- FMCG, consumer, beverage, or multinational experience preferred
- Advanced Excel capability, including financial modelling, Power Query, pivot tables, and scenario analysis
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret large datasets
- Comfortable operating within a fast-paced, high-volume reporting environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management capability across finance and non-finance teams
- SAP, Power BI, or similar reporting tools advantageous
Compensation & Benefits
This role offers a salary of £70,000-£75,000 plus bonus and benefits, alongside hybrid working from a West London office. The position provides strong international exposure, broad stakeholder interaction, and the opportunity to contribute to commercial decision-making and process improvement within a globally recognised listed FMCG business.