Role Title: Product Analyst Location: Glasgow Duration: 31/12/2026 Days on site: 2-3 Rate INSIDE IR35 £290.88 Description: CONTRACTOR MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR BPSS MUST BE UMBRELLA Role Description: The Product Analyst is focused on undertaking monthly forecasting activities in direct support of one or more delivery initiatives. This involves various activities related to understanding the pipeline of work and ensuring forecasts are timely and accurate. This includes aspects such as: * Tracking resourcing profile of the workforce * Alignment of resources to project tasks for the purpose of timesheet bookings * Tracking correctness of bookings * Facilitating timesheet reversals to ensure correct bookings * Tracking spend against work items * Accounting for non-resource costs in forecasts * Assembling and submitting monthly forecasts * Keeping spend within financial tolerances * Analysing monthly variances (forecast vs actuals) * Applying corrective actions * Constructing narratives for inclusion in reporting and governance forums to explain financial variances * Contributing to the tracking of affordability * Tracking trends in pipeline of work and escalating any signs of risk * Liaising directly with central Corporate finance and portfolio teams * Data quality monitoring, hygiene and housekeeping * Communicate clearly, appropriately and regularly. * Frequently face off to VP/Director level stakeholders. Person Specification * Ability to assimilate and analyse data * Analytical ability, numeracy and an excellent eye for detail * Strong Excel skills * Collaborative and influential * Strong oral and written communication skills - ability to communicate clearly and concisely, while demonstrating active listening and ability to be assertive when required * Ability to challenge effectively and assertively to drive key outcomes in collaboration with CDS change leads * Ability to analyse financial and project data underpinned by a keen eye for detail and ability / instinct to intuit & address data anomalies. Please send latest CV LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.