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Financial Analyst

Newport, UK
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Company: REED

Job Type: Permanent, FullTime

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum, Inc benefits

In this role, you’ll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing financial models, ensuring accurate reporting, and delivering forecasting that supports critical business decisions. Acting as a key business partner, you will bridge finance with multiple operational teams.

Core Responsibilities

  • Support the division’s finance team with planning, forecasting, and analysis of Fixed Costs (headcount, T&E, project materials, depreciation, allocations, etc.).
  • Reconcile headcount actuals and forecasts while partnering with business managers and HR to track leavers, transfers, new hires, and organisational changes. Ensure alignment across systems such as OneStream, Workday, and Anaplan.
  • Assist in managing divisional budgets by monitoring spend, understanding cost drivers, and identifying and explaining key variances.
  • Support monthly and quarterly closes, including expense reconciliation, accruals, and comparative analysis versus forecast.
  • Proactively identify risks and opportunities across operating expenses.
  • Build and maintain standardised monthly and quarterly management reports.
  • Work with engineering teams to optimise costs on strategic programmes.
  • Input forecast and planning data into the OneStream financial reporting system and maintain accuracy across all relevant working files.
  • Deliver ad-hoc analysis to support strategic and operational decision-making.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experience managing operating expenditures within a high-tech or complex engineering environment, ideally with strong business partnering exposure.
  • Excellent financial discipline with the ability to validate data and apply sound analytical judgement.
  • Proficiency in financial reporting systems (e.g., SAP, OneStream) and strong Excel and PowerPoint capability.
  • Self-driven, results-focused, and able to work well independently.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities and multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • A positive, proactive team player with a strong sense of ownership.

What We Offer

This role provides an exciting opportunity to build a long-term career within a rapidly growing, industry-leading organisation. You will benefit from a structured development path, exposure to global teams, and the chance to make a real impact in the business.

Benefits include:

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Annual Bonus
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Cash health plan
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Share scheme
  • Rewards programme
  • Life assurance
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