Finance Analyst

• Salary: Competitive
• Location: UK (with international operations)
• Job Type: Full-time
• 100% office based position, offering flexible hours (37.5 hour week)

Reed Finance are pleased to be supporting our client in their search for an Finance Analyst/FP&A Accountant to join their finance team. This role is crucial as the business scales up and will focus on forward-looking commercial accounting and analytical tasks. The successful candidate will be the company's first hire in a dedicated FP&A role, requiring the ability to implement new reports, financial models, and analysis.

The business has seen significant growth over the last few years, with ambitious growth plans in place, meaning this is the perfect time to join this exciting company.

• Build, maintain, and develop a framework of management information reporting & KPIs.
• Lead all budgeting, forecasting, and performance measurement activities.
• Conduct variance analysis to establish root causes and provide insights.
• Develop financial models to analyse SKU margins and report on trends across revenues, costs, operating expenses, capital expenditures, cash flow, and inventory.
• Provide periodic and on-demand analytics to facilitate strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Assist in communicating management information to the Board and Senior Management Team for business decision-making.
• Contribute to business development projects with an impact on management information and reporting.
• Offer pragmatic short-term workarounds while building medium-term solutions.

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA).
• Experience in FMCG, manufacturing, or other product-based businesses with multiple products/SKUs/Inventory.
• Strong data skills and familiarity with reporting/BI tools.
• Advanced Excel modelling skills, with experience building models and solutions from scratch.
• Competence with ERP accounting systems.

• Hands-on, self-starter with a ‘can do’ problem-solving mindset.
• Curiosity and willingness to do the ‘heavy lifting’.
• Vision of ‘what good looks like’ and the ability to manifest that vision into tangible outputs.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to foster good relationships at all levels.