Senior Finance Analyst (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

At Moorepay, we're on a journey to strengthen our finance capability, improve insight-led decision making and support the continued growth of the business.

We're looking for a commercially minded Senior Finance Analyst to join our Finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This is an exciting opportunity for a part-qualified or newly-qualified accountant who enjoys combining strong financial reporting with insightful analysis and business partnering.

Working closely with the Finance Business Partner and CFO, you will play a key role in delivering accurate month-end reporting, supporting budgeting and forecasting activities, and providing the financial insight that helps drive business performance. You'll also contribute to ongoing finance transformation initiatives, helping improve reporting, processes and controls across the function.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to work closely with senior finance leadership and gain exposure to a broad range of financial, commercial and strategic activities. You'll play a visible role in helping the business understand its performance, improve decision-making and continue its finance transformation journey.

The working pattern for this position will be hybrid, with 2 days per week working in our Swinton office.

Key Responsibilities

Delivering High Quality Financial Reporting

• Supporting the production of accurate and timely monthly management accounts and KPI reporting.
• Owning key aspects of the month-end close process, ensuring reporting deadlines are met.
• Preparing insightful variance analysis and commentary to explain business performance.
• Maintaining robust balance sheet reconciliations and financial controls.

Turning Data into Insight

• Analysing financial and operational data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Producing meaningful analysis that supports decision-making across the business.
• Delivering reporting and ad hoc analysis for senior finance and business stakeholders.

Supporting Planning and Performance

• Assisting with budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning activities.
• Maintaining and enhancing financial models and reporting tools.
• Supporting scenario modelling and performance analysis to aid strategic decision-making.

Strengthening Revenue Reporting and Financial Control

• Supporting the integrity and accuracy of revenue reporting.
• Investigating and resolving financial discrepancies in partnership with operational and commercial teams.
• Helping ensure strong governance and financial controls are maintained across reporting activities.

Driving Continuous Improvement

• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting and controls.
• Supporting finance transformation and reporting improvement initiatives.
• Helping build more efficient, scalable and data-driven ways of working across the finance team.

Skills & Experience

• Part-qualified or newly-qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant.
• Experience within a finance, management accounting or financial analysis role.
• Strong experience supporting month-end reporting and financial analysis.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large volumes of data.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate financial information into meaningful business insight.
• Experience using ERP, reporting or planning systems. (Experience of NetSuite or Anaplan would be preferable)
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Experience supporting budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Exposure to finance transformation, process improvement or reporting automation initiatives.