Finance Data Analyst
Position: Finance Data Analyst
Location: Gloucester – Onsite 5 days per week
Salary: £35,000
Contract: 9-Month Fixed Term Contract
Benefits: Career development, exposure to large-scale business data, collaborative environment
Our client, a leading organisation within the technology sector, is hiring a Finance Data Analyst to support data-driven decision making across the business.
This role is heavily focused on data analysis, reporting, and delivering actionable insights through Power BI and financial reporting tools. You’ll play a key role in helping stakeholders understand business performance, identify trends, and improve operational efficiency through meaningful analysis.
Working closely with senior finance stakeholders and operational teams, you’ll turn complex data into clear commercial insights that support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic decisions.
What you’ll do
- Analyse large volumes of financial and operational data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
- Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports to support business performance tracking
- Deliver detailed analysis and commentary around variances against budget and forecast
- Support month-end reporting, accruals, prepayments, and journal entries
- Work with multiple data sources and systems to improve reporting accuracy and visibility
- Provide stakeholders with meaningful insights to support commercial and operational decisions
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, automation, and efficiency
- Collaborate with finance, billing, and operational teams to ensure data accuracy and consistency
- Support audit and year-end processes where required
You’ll work closely with Finance leadership and wider business teams to improve reporting capability and help shape a more insight-led decision-making culture.
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience analysing data and delivering actionable business insights
- Advanced Excel skills and strong Power BI capability
- Experience building dashboards, reports, and visualisations for stakeholders
- Ability to interpret complex datasets and communicate findings clearly
- Experience working across multiple systems and data sources
- Strong attention to detail and analytical thinking
- Understanding of finance processes including accruals and prepayments would be beneficial
- AAT qualification or finance background desirable
The ideal candidate will be commercially minded, naturally curious, and confident working with stakeholders across the business. You’ll enjoy solving problems, improving processes, and turning data into actionable insight.
Why join?
- Opportunity to play a key role in improving reporting and insight capability
- Strong focus on Power BI and data-led decision making
- Exposure to large and varied datasets across multiple business functions
- Collaborative and supportive team environment
- Excellent opportunity to gain experience within a fast-paced commercial business