FP&A Analyst

Location: Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Employment Type: Full time

About this role

We are looking for an experienced FP&A analyst to help drive our best-in-class FP&A team. As a team, we are responsible for a myriad of critical items, including senior stakeholder engagement, insight-focused analysis of our portfolio, and team enablement (i.e. raising departmental technical aptitude). The role adds significant value to Finance’s partnering with other parts of the business by performing in-depth analysis of complex business questions. The role is responsible for performing and presenting this analysis to the CFO, FP&A Director, and other Business Partners within the finance department. The role involves interesting analysis of credit performance and our financials.

What you’ll be doing

• Synthesising and simplifying financial and non-financial data
• Delivering impactful pieces of analysis that drive finance and wider business insights
• Being a beacon of analytical know-how within Finance, and sharing that knowledge across the team
• Supporting ad hoc analytical requests from leadership
• Supporting 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
  • Streamlining processes by finding automation wins or easier ways of doing things
  • Driving forward process improvement-related activities for the benefit of the department
• Working with team members and the wider FP&A team to contribute to monthly financials review (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, 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
• Using business knowledge to enable work to be focussed on finance priorities
• Pushing the envelope of our capabilities via new data and automation
• Focusing on key risks and opportunities
• Collaborating across finance teams to deliver business outcomes together

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, budget & forecast 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 permanent position based in our Nottingham or London offices. 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 career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers). Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work sche