FP&A Analyst

Sat within a progressive and supportive team you will perform FP&A activities as determined by the wider team members. You'll be responsible for producing the output that supports Finance Business Partners and Divisional FDs and broader Finance in their activities. For someone eager to learn and develop this presents an excellent opportunity to diversify your skillset within a complex, large organization.,

• Perform FP&A activities including (but not limited) to: budgeting and forecasting; providing consistent, accurate and timely output and add additional commentary to key stakeholders and insights based on specific Divisional business drivers.


• Run and develop reports, models and approaches with the support of more senior FP&A team members using analysis and problems solving skills to support projects based on requirements.


• Analyse financial information to ensure that information is accurate, investigate anomalies and provide explanations on variances that have occurred against budget. Where errors are found provide information and analysis to other FP&A team members and Business Partners.


• Identify data quality issues and work with the data team and help to resolve the issues, providing analysis and insight.


• Propose improvements to finance activities, processes and procedures and work with the FP&A team to continually improve processes.
  
  You'll be a self-starter, someone who wants to learn and is commercially savvy. To be successful in this role you will also need:


Essential:

• To be studying towards accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA) - study support will be provided


• Experience within a finance environment


• The initiative and ability to successfully implement new ideas, with drive to push through


• To be able to clearly communicate compelling messages - verbal and written


• To be committed to continual personal professional development


• Experience of using Excel with the aptitude to develop within this area


Desirable:

• Experience within a commercial finance environment


• Power BI experience and/or knowledge


• Experience of problem solving and analysis techniques to define problems
  
  We have been a leading figure in publishing for more than 500 years. We have always been a forward-looking organization, maximizing the technology for the day, but the digital revolution is bringing enormous change, fast. That same spirit of adventure and entrepreneurialism is critical to our future success. In a fast changing publishing landscape, OUP welcomes the inquisitive, the inventive, and the ambitious; people who challenge the conventional, and pioneer the possible.
  
  We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.


We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.