FP&A Analyst

Team and role overview

Core responsibilities

• Analyse cost drivers and support accurate cost forecasts, including assessment of financial risks and opportunities.
• Maintain rolling non-people cost forecasts with business stakeholders, Procurement, and Finance Business Partners.
• Support workforce forecasts and staff-cost monitoring for UK and global roles.
• Deliver financial reporting and analysis for commercial decision-making and business performance.
• Support month-end reporting and analyse non-people cost variances with Financial Control and business stakeholders.
• Identify business challenges and help mitigate financial and operational risks through analysis, controls, and governance.
• Support Finance Business Partnering colleagues with financial analysis and stakeholder engagement.
• Review and approve purchase orders to ensure spending is within budget and correctly coded and accounted for.
• Review financial processes and contribute to continuous-improvement initiatives across Group Finance.

Required knowledge and experience

• Strong analytical skills to interpret financial information, investigate cost movements, and communicate insights.
• Strong organisational skills to manage recurring forecasting, reporting, and month-end activities.
• Ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders and Finance, Financial Control, Procurement, and operational teams.
• Inquisitive, improvement-focused mindset and confidence to challenge existing approaches.
• Ability to provide accurate, timely analysis supporting commercial decisions, risk management, and business performance.

Technical skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency for financial modelling, forecasting, variance analysis, data manipulation, and management reporting.
• Ability to develop and maintain rolling cost and workforce forecasts using current financial information.
• Ability to perform month-end analysis and explain variances between actual expenditure, budgets, and forecasts.
• Understanding of purchase-order controls, cost coding, budget monitoring, and financial governance.
• Ability to prepare clear financial reports for business and senior stakeholders.

Benefits

• The employer describes a salary and bonus scheme; commission is mentioned for sales-team roles.
• Benefits include 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, wellness and birthday days off, a contributory pension, an employee stock purchase plan, private healthcare, wellbeing programmes, and diversity forums.

Flexibility

• The employer describes flexible policies intended to help employees balance work and other responsibilities.
• The supplied description cuts off before completing the flexibility details; it does not establish this role's specific workplace arrangement.