Job Description
Finance Analyst - Fully Qualified Accountant
Salary: £45,000-£50,000 + excellent benefits (Work Level 6)Location: Manchester / Scunthorpe (hybrid - typically 2-3 days across both locations, including at least one day per week in Scunthorpe)
Overview
We're working with a large, fast-growing organisation undergoing a period of transformation and investment. As they strengthen their financial planning and reporting capability, they're looking for a fully qualified Finance Analyst to deliver high-quality insight, modelling, and performance reporting across key business areas.
This is a great opportunity to join a business with a refreshed structure, ambitious growth plans, and a real commitment to improving forecasting, reporting, and financial decision-making.
Why this role matters
The organisation is focused on enhancing its commercial proposition, improving financial performance, and supporting better long-term planning. This role is central to that ambition, helping to:
* shape budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans
* provide data-driven insight that supports operational and strategic decisions
* improve the consistency of financial reporting
* identify risks, opportunities, and performance trends
You'll be at the heart of the planning cycle, supporting senior stakeholders with accurate analysis and clear, actionable insight.
What you'll do
* Build financial plans using robust modelling techniques and sound assumptions
* Develop forecasts, budgets and multi-year strategic plans
* Consolidate inputs and produce high-quality performance reporting packs
* Own monthly reporting for your designated area
* Analyse financial results and explain key variances across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
* Deliver reconciliations and deep-dive analysis to support business partners
* Present financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences
* Build strong relationships across operational and strategic teams
* Support continuous improvement of forecasting and reporting processes
* Champion planning and reporting tools, offering guidance to colleagues where needed
What you'll bring
* A full accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) - essential
* Strong experience across forecasting, budgeting, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
* Excellent Excel skills (advanced formulas, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables) and familiarity with planning/reporting tools
* Strong analytical mindset with exceptional attention to detail
* Ability to prioritise and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
* Confidence presenting financial insights to diverse audiences
* A proactive approach with a focus on process improvement and adding value
* Strong business partnering experience and the ability to influence decisions
If you're looking for a role where you can make a real impact, grow your analytical capability, and support a business undergoing meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.