Senior Finance Analyst – Group Partners (6 Month FTC)

We are seeking a commercially minded and highly analytical Senior Finance Analyst to join our Group Partners finance team. This is a key role providing high-quality financial and commercial support, enabling stakeholders to manage budgets effectively, understand performance, and make well-informed decisions.

You will act as a trusted business partner, combining strong technical expertise with commercial insight, delivering robust reporting, forecasting, and analysis, while driving continuous improvement in how financial information is produced and used across the organisation.

• Partner closely with Group Partner teams to provide financial oversight, insight, and support

• Support budget holders in managing costs, planning future activity, and navigating planning cycles

• Provide reliable, decision-useful analysis to support regular performance reviews

• Offer constructive challenge to ensure effective decision-making and strong cost discipline

• Build a deep understanding of operational activity and its financial implications

• Prepare monthly cost reports, forecasts, annual budgets, and dashboards to a consistently high standard

• Analyse variances against budget and forecast, providing clear, concise, and insightful commentary

• Support the preparation of consolidated Group Partner results for Board and Committee reporting, enabling senior stakeholders to understand key drivers, cost movements, and business performance

• Identify trends, emerging risks, cost pressures, and opportunities within operational spend

• Produce visually impactful analytics and dashboards tailored to the audience, supporting effective decision-making

• Champion the use of Anaplan to enhance financial planning and forecasting activities

• Undertake ad hoc analysis and project work in support of the wider FP&A team

• Ensure the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of financial data across ERP systems and reporting tools

• Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and reporting quality

• Ensure adherence to financial policies, supporting strong governance and audit readiness

• Qualified accountant or equivalent professional finance experience

• High level of analytical capability with a strong attention to detail and curiosity to understand cost drivers and operational trends

• Advanced Excel skills, with experience using BI tools (Power BI preferred) and working across ERP systems

• Proven ability to manage and interpret complex data sets, translating them into meaningful business insights

• Experience creating clear, visually impactful analytics that support decision-making

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information in a straightforward and accessible way to both finance and non-finance stakeholders

• Highly numerate and comfortable working in data-rich, complex environments

• A positive, adaptable, and collaborative team player

• Excellent ability to build effective partnerships across functions

• Confident in engaging, influencing, and constructively challenging stakeholders

• Able to simplify complexity and communicate insights clearly and effectively

If you are looking for a role where you can combine technical expertise with commercial impact and play a key role in driving business performance, we would love to hear from you.

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We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk

Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.