Senior FP&A Analyst

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Produce monthly UK and Ireland reporting, P&L and KPI reports, including variances to budget, forecast, and prior year; draft commentary on results.
• Collate, report, and review monthly exceptional items and underlying trading.
• Collate, report, and review risks and opportunities, capex, provisions, and quarterly submissions to Group and banks.
• Analyse sales data, including contract gains and losses; validate and track results with Commercial Finance teams and monitor projected returns.
• Consolidate UK and Ireland P&L reporting and analysis for budgets and forecasts.
• Prepare budget, forecast, Board, and other meeting slides as required by the UK Finance Director.
• Develop financial systems and optimise processes to reduce reporting times.
• Improve accounting-team processes and identify modelling or system-led solutions that add value.
• Participate in projects and provide ad hoc support to the FP&A Manager.
• Complete ONS returns.
• Produce Power BI reports and maintain data integrity and reporting accuracy.

Candidate criteria

• Excellent report writing, presentation, and financial modelling skills.
• Proven experience in a similar role, delivering high-quality output to tight deadlines.
• Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent) or holds a data analytics qualification.
• Strong organisation and prioritisation, including managing multiple deliverables concurrently.
• Proven track record working with senior management.
• Expert Excel knowledge, including macros, Pivot Tables and charts, external data imports, non-Excel data, and large data volumes.
• Excellent working knowledge of PowerPoint.
• Power BI reporting experience is preferred.
• Able to translate complex scenarios and information into efficient, accurate financial models.
• Variance analysis and forecasting experience is necessary.

About OCS

Benefits

• The OCS Academy offers digital learning and development resources.
• Access to retail discounts, rewards, and wellbeing resources through the Hapi app.
• Professional development and qualifications are supported.
• Wagestream access to a portion of earned wages before payday is stated as contract-specific.