Finance Analyst 12 Month FTC

Want to be part of a UK hub, in a global business that is scaling rapidly, evolving fast and radically changing the decades\-old delivery universe? If so, read on — we're looking for a Finance Analyst to support our Finance Business Partners.

Our mission? To switch up the status quo and become the UK's leading out\-of\-home business. With a fast\-growing network of thousands of smart lockers, hundreds of leading retail partners and our transformative Send service, we're bringing freedom to anyone with a parcel.

At InPost UK, we're building an unparalleled group of talent committed to reshaping the way parcels move and redefining eCommerce logistics. Our team is packed full of top\-notch experts in e\-commerce, technology, scale\-up growth, sustainability, logistics and supply chain — a passionate bunch with high ambition.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Business Partnering Support

• Support your Finance Business Partner in building a close working relationship with their business area, preparing briefing materials and financial context ahead of leadership and management meetings.


• Develop a working understanding of the commercial and operational drivers of your FBP's business area, so that your analysis is grounded in what actually matters to the stakeholders being supported.


• Help identify financial risks and opportunities within the business area, flagging anomalies or emerging trends in the data to your FBP before they surface in the management accounts.


• Respond to day\-to\-day queries from business stakeholders on straightforward financial questions, escalating anything requiring additional judgement or a difficult conversation to your FBP.

• Investigate the drivers behind significant variances to budget or forecast, providing your FBP with the underlying detail needed to write insightful, explanatory commentary.


• Maintain reporting templates and working files so that month\-end production is efficient, consistent and easy for others to pick up.


• Support continuous improvement of management reporting — identifying opportunities to automate recurring tasks, reduce production time and improve the clarity of outputs.

• Support the budget and re\-forecast process for your FBP's business area, building and maintaining the underlying models, consolidating inputs from budget holders and checking calculations for accuracy.


• Maintain rolling forecast trackers throughout the year, flagging material movements to your FBP as they emerge.


• Build and update financial models and scenario analysis to support decision\-making — including investment cases, pricing sensitivities, volume scenarios and cost lever evaluation — under the direction of your FBP.


• Support the annual five\-year plan (5YP) process for your business area, preparing supporting schedules and data packs as required.

• Support your FBP in liaising with the Financial Controllers on business events affecting the close — such as accruals, one\-off items, recharges or timing differences — helping to ensure the accounting team has the context they need.


• Maintain clear, well\-documented working files and models so that assumptions, sources and calculations are transparent and can be reviewed or picked up by others.


• Participate in Finance team meetings and close reviews as needed, contributing data and analysis to support wider Controlling and Financial Accounting discussions.

• Support the preparation of investment and business cases for MCA or other governance submissions, building supporting financial models and sense\-checking assumptions.


• Provide granular cost centre and department\-level analysis to support budget holders in managing their cost and/or revenue base, highlighting cost lines running ahead of plan.


• Produce ad hoc financial and commercial analysis to support decision\-making — including for example, pricing sensitivities, volume\-mix\-margin bridges and profitability assessments.


• Help develop and maintain financial and commercial KPI dashboards for the business area, using Power BI, Excel or equivalent tools to make insight accessible to non\-finance audiences.

We're looking for people who are ready for a fast\-paced environment, get their kicks out of problem solving and can balance getting today's stuff done, whilst building for the future. We're looking for people with drive and natural curiosity — who want to do things differently. And do them brilliantly.

Qualifications \& Experience

• Part\-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) actively studying towards a professional qualification, or a graduate with strong analytical experience in a finance or commercial analyst role.


• Experience supporting month\-end reporting, budgeting or forecasting processes, ideally within a finance business partnering or management accounting environment.


• Strong Excel skills, including financial modelling, pivot tables and large data sets; familiarity with Power BI, Anaplan or similar planning and reporting tools is an advantage.


• Experience in a multi\-entity, high\-volume operational business — logistics, distribution, e\-commerce, retail or similar — is desirable but not essential.

• Analytically curious — enjoys getting into the detail of the data and figuring out what it's really telling you.


• Strong attention to detail and a methodical, well\-organised approach to building and checking models and reports.


• A clear communicator, comfortable presenting analysis to your Finance Business Partner and, increasingly, to non\-finance stakeholders.


• Proactive and deadline\-driven — able to manage the competing demands of the month\-end, forecast and budget cycle without losing quality.

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