Financial Planning & Analytics (FP&A) Analyst

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Financial Planning & Analytics (FP&A) Analyst Job Title: FP&A Analyst (12 Month FTC) Reporting to: Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Level: Associate Location: Nottingham Direct Reports: None About this role We are looking for an FP&A analyst with relevant analytical experience to help drive our best-in-class FP&A team. As a team we are responsible for a myriad of critical items, including performance reporting, senior stakeholder engagement and insight-focused analysis of our portfolio. As our model expert this role adds significant value to Finance’s analytical insight of the business, by producing compelling analysis that is shared with key stakeholders on the trajectory of the total UK business. The role is also responsible for delivering regular reporting requirements, insightful analysis, process enhancement across our team and partnership with stakeholder teams across the UK and US. What you’ll be doing • Owning the refresh of our Python based forecasting model, identifying sensitivities and producing scenarios for senior leadership • Synthesising and simplifying financial and non-financial data • Supporting impactful pieces of analyses that drive finance and wider business insights Assisting FP&A in: • Developing reporting to facilitate monitoring and communication of performance against targets or to support review of outlooks (i.e. forecasts) and budgets • Ensure all month end activity is completed in an accurate and timely manner • Streamlining processes by finding automation wins or easier ways of doing things • Driving forward process enhancement-related activities for the benefit of the department • Working with team members to contribute to monthly financial reviews (MFR) meetings, Annual Budgets,  and/or other reporting requirements How you’ll be doing it • Competent use of all systems and applications relevant to the required outputs of the role (e.g. OneStream, Snowflake, Workday, GSuite, Microsoft Office) • Leveraging large datasets and bringing together different sources of data to bring insights to the business • Investigating new technologies and tools and supporting process improvement workstreams • Pushing the envelope of our capabilities via new data and automation • Collaborating across finance teams to support delivery of impactful analysis to key stakeholders What we’re looking for • Strong analytical skills e.g. overall story, accuracy, spotting errors and asking the right questions • Strong technical skills (e.g. familiarity with python, sql, some coding language experience etc) a major plus! • Functional knowledge of accounting principles (e.g. P&L, budgets & forecasting, month end processes etc) • Communication - within and outside Finance. Tailoring written and verbal comms as appropriate • Relationship building and stakeholder management with teams internal and external to Finance • Ability to coordinate a complex set of inputs with different drivers, timelines and priorities and bring it together in a story • Continuous improvement and change-agility mindset Where and how you'll work This is a fixed term contract role based in Nottingham. Our hybrid working model offers you the flexibility to work from our offices and from home. We're big on collaboration and connection, and so our typical office days are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.  What’s in it for you • Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation • We offer high performers strong and diverse caree