Senior FP&A Analyst

Senior FP&A Analyst

£70,000 – £85,000 + Excellent Benefits

Swindon / Hybrid

I am exclusively working in partnership with my client to recruit a newly created and highly visible Senior FP&A Analyst role. My client is a long-established and highly respected not-for-profit organisation within the technology and digital skills sector. Purpose-led and forward-looking, the organisation is entering an exciting period of renewal and growth, with a clear strategy focused on impact, influence and the future of the digital profession.

Reporting to the CFO, the Senior FP&A Analyst will work closely with senior stakeholders, providing clear analysis and forward-looking insight to support revenue forecasting, business planning and strategic decision-making. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to help shape how data is used across the organisation.

The Role:

You will play a key role in improving forecasting, reporting and commercial insight across multiple revenue streams. This is a newly created role, offering the opportunity to add real value, improve visibility of performance and support both commercial and strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acting as a proactive finance partner to the CFO, CEO and Executive Team, providing clear insight to support strategic and commercial decision-making
• Interpreting financial and operational performance data, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and performance drivers
• Producing executive-ready analysis, commentary and presentation material to support decision-making
• Developing and maintaining business intelligence dashboards, financial models and reporting tools that provide timely, relevant and actionable information
• Using data and analytics to identify trends, improve forecasting accuracy and provide short, medium and long-term forward-looking insight
• Translating complex financial information into a clear and compelling narrative for non-finance audiences, including Executive, Senior Leadership, Committee and Council stakeholders where required
• Building and refining financial models to support scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, investment appraisal and strategic decision-making
• Supporting the annual budget and re-forecast cycles with analytical rigour, challenge and forward-looking perspective
• Leading and improving revenue forecasting across key business areas
• Providing gross margin and profitability analysis across products and revenue streams
• Partnering with commercial and operational teams to understand pipeline, trends and performance drivers
• Contributing to process improvement, reporting development and future systems transformation activity

About You:

• CIMA, ACA, or ACCA qualified
• Strong FP&A, commercial finance, financial planning or finance business partnering experience
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability, including Power Query, Power Pivot, dynamic modelling, scenario planning and sensitivity analysis
• Strong Power BI experience, including building dashboards, developing reporting and presenting data clearly
• Proven experience of revenue analysis, forecasting and improving forecasting accuracy across complex or multi-stream income models
• The ability to work with multiple data sources and turn complex information into clear, actionable insight
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to challenge, influence and present insight to senior stakeholders
• Experience within a not-for-profit, charity, membership, education, training or professional services environment would be highly desirable, but is not essential.

Benefits:

• Salary of £70,000 to £85,000
• Hybrid working
• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Birthday leave
• Paid Christmas office shutdown
• Group personal pension plan
• Private medical insurance and/or health cash plan
• Life assurance, 4x salary
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Professional membership reimbursement, role dependent
• Holiday buying scheme
• Financial wellbeing support

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