📢 Finance Analyst

💰 £45,000 - £50,000 & Excellent Benefits

📍 Basingstoke - Hybrid

💼 Permanent

Are you a qualified accountant looking to develop your career in a commercially focused finance role? We're recruiting for a Finance Analyst to join a collaborative finance team, offering excellent exposure to financial reporting, business partnering and commercial analysis within a well-established organisation.

The Role

As a Finance Analyst, you'll support the Regional Finance Manager and Finance Director in delivering accurate financial reporting, insightful analysis and robust financial control. You'll work closely with stakeholders across the business, providing financial insight that supports strategic decision-making and business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare budgets, forecasts and monthly management accounts.
• Produce regular financial reporting and performance analysis to support business decisions.
• Monitor financial performance, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
• Prepare journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support month-end, half-year and year-end reporting processes.
• Partner with operational stakeholders, providing financial insight and analysis.
• Produce ad hoc reporting to support commercial and strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to process improvement projects, driving efficiencies across the finance function.
• Provide support across the wider finance team as required.

About You

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified.
• Practice-trained accountants are encouraged to apply, as well as candidates with experience in a similar commercial finance role.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build relationships across finance and non-finance teams.
• Strong Excel skills and a proactive, collaborative approach.
• Keen to develop within a commercially focused finance environment.

You'll be joining a supportive finance team that offers excellent exposure across the business, opportunities to develop commercially and a clear pathway for long-term career progression.

If you would like to apply for the role, please send your CV to (url removed).I'm working with a well-established manufacturing business based in Barnsley that is looking to appoint a Commercial Finance Analyst to join its growing finance team. This is a key role within the business, focused on delivering commercial insight, financial analysis and decision support to improve operational performance, profitability and long-term business growth.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional looking to develop their career within a commercially focused manufacturing environment, with exposure to senior stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Production, Procurement and Sales. The successful candidate will play an important role in helping the business understand performance, identify opportunities and make informed commercial decisions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing insightful financial and commercial analysis to support decision-making across the manufacturing business
• Supporting the preparation of budgets, forecasts and financial plans, providing analysis and recommendations to management
• Producing and improving management reports, dashboards and KPIs covering financial and operational performance
• Analysing production costs, margins, overheads and operational performance, identifying trends, risks and opportunities
• Monitoring actual performance against budget and forecast, delivering detailed variance analysis and highlighting key drivers
• Business partnering with Production, Operations, Procurement and Sales teams, providing financial challenge and commercial insight
• Supporting the analysis of product and customer profitability, pricing, costs and margin performance
• Assisting with stock, working capital and cost-control analysis to support improved cash flow and operational efficiency
• Supporting capital expenditure proposals, investment appraisals, business cases and scenario modelling
• Developing financial models to assess the impact of cost changes, production volumes, pricing and operational decisions
• Identifying opportunities to improve reporting, processes and controls through automation, systems development and process optimisation
• Presenting financial and commercial insights clearly to senior stakeholders, helping translate complex data into actionable recommendations

The client is looking for:

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, part-qualified, finalist or an experienced finance professional working towards qualification
• Previous experience within Commercial Finance, Management Accounting, FP&A, Finance Business Partnering or a commercially focused analytical finance role
• Ideally, experience within a manufacturing, engineering, FMCG or other operational environment
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial and operational data
• A good understanding of cost accounting, margins, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
• Strong Excel skills, with experience using Power BI or other reporting/BI tools being advantageous
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence colleagues across the business
• A commercially minded approach, with the ability to identify the key drivers behind business performance and turn analysis into practical recommendations

If you're a commercially focused finance professional looking to take the next step in your career within a successful manufacturing business, this could be an excellent opportunity to join an organisation where you'll have genuine influence, broad exposure across the operation and the opportunity to make a measurable impact on profitability, performance and growth.

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