Finance Business Analyst

As a Finance Business Analyst, you’ll play a key role in driving commercial insight and supporting strategic decision-making across the business. Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, you’ll work in a matrix-managed, cross-functional environment—collaborating with teams across commercial, operations, and finance to bring clarity to complexity.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Business Partnering/Functional Collaboration & Communication
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business. Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that drive better decisions.
• Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis
  • Support budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking—owning customer P&Ls from Net Revenue to EBIT. Provide timely and accurate reporting and analysis for commercial areas.
• Commercial Modelling & Decision Support
  • Develop and maintain financial models to evaluate tenders, pricing strategies, promotions, and new business opportunities. Provide clear, data-driven recommendations to support strategic initiatives.
• Profitability & Performance Insight
  • Deliver and enhance customer and product profitability analysis. Identify trends, risks, and opportunities to improve commercial performance.
• Process Improvement
  • Continuously seek ways to streamline financial processes, reduce manual effort, and improve the speed and quality of decision-making.
• Team Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
  • Work closely with colleagues across finance and the wider business to share insights, support development, and contribute to a positive, inclusive team culture.

Your Key Accountabilities

• Support the Finance Business Partner to deliver customer P&L’s from Net Revenue to EBIT, budget setting, tracking and improving across all cost lines
• Deliver accurate, insightful financial analysis that supports business performance and strategic goals.
• Ensure the integrity and consistency of financial data and reporting.
• Provide informed, constructive challenge to stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.
• Actively contribute to the development of tools, models, and processes that enhance financial insight.

To be successful, you'll need to:

• Demonstrate excellent business partnering skills; with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful management information, providing insight to support decisions.
• Be comfortable providing constructive, informed challenge (solution focused) and escalation as appropriate
• Studying towards a recognized finance qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ACA), we'll provide study support too.
• Be a strong communicator—able to simplify complex financial concepts for non-financial audiences, providing provide clear and accurate commercial decision making support
• Have the ability to forge strong relationships with commercial partners 
• Be commercially astute with a keen eye for detail and a passion for problem-solving.
• Be proactive, self-motivated, and resourceful—comfortable working independently in a lean structure.
• Be confident in building financial models and drawing out actionable insights.
• Be collaborative and adaptable—thrives in a matrix-managed, cross-functional environment.
• Be curious, ambitious, and always looking for ways to grow and add value.
• Have previous experience of high quality of reporting of data and analytics 
• Demonstrate a digital mindset, comfortable leveraging technology such as PowerBI, SAP, Tableau to improve ways of working
• Have working knowledge of and ideally experience applying UK financial regulations or compliance standards in the decision-making process.
• An active awareness of the importance of data integrity or secure handling of financial data

Based at our Dawson Lane site in Bradford, close to key motorway links you’ll be able to take advantage of:

• Competitive salary
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension benefit
• Flexible working opportunities including working from home opportunities
• Free onsite parking for when you are in the office
• A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance

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