Vacancy: Senior FP&A Analyst

About the role

The Senior FP&A Analyst is a strategic finance role created to transform how BCS uses financial data to provide insight and drive executive decision-making. The role moves the organization beyond traditional management reporting, surfacing proactive, forward-looking financial and business intelligence that supports the CEO, Executive Team and Senior Leadership in steering the organization.

Responsibilities

• Act as a proactive strategic finance partner to the CEO, CFO and Executive Team, anticipating information needs and surfacing meaningful business insight rather than reacting to ad-hoc reporting requests.
• Interpret financial performance data and present trends, patterns and insights in business context, producing executive-ready analysis, commentary and presentation material that directly supports decision-making.
• Lead on revenue analysis and revenue forecasting, driving improvements in forecasting accuracy across revenue streams and deepening the organization’s understanding of the drivers behind performance.
• Produce advanced P&L analysis, management accounting insight, and commercial performance reporting that goes beyond statutory and management accounts to create financial and business intelligence.
• Combine financial data with operational, membership, commercial and other relevant data sets to create joined-up insight that illuminates organizational performance and opportunity.
• Develop and maintain business intelligence dashboards, models and reporting mechanisms that provide the Executive Team with timely, relevant and actionable information.
• Apply predictive analytics to monitor, report, spot and forecast trends and patterns — turning financial data into short, medium and long-term forward-looking insight.
• Build and refine financial models to support scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, investment appraisal and strategic decision-making.
• Partner with colleagues across the organization to understand performance drivers, challenge assumptions constructively, and improve the quality of financial and commercial decision-making.
• Translate complex financial information into clear, compelling narrative for non-finance audiences at Executive, Senior Leadership and governance levels, including Committees and Council where required.
• Identify opportunities to improve the financial management mix, reporting processes, data flows and tooling, working closely with the CFO on continuous improvement.
• Support the annual budget and re-forecast cycles with analytical rigour, providing challenge, insight and forward-looking perspective.
• Represent Finance in cross-functional initiatives requiring financial analysis, modelling or intelligence input.

Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), or equivalent by experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related discipline.
• Further qualification or certification in data analytics, business intelligence or financial modelling (e.g. Microsoft Power BI, CFA, FMVA, or similar) is advantageous.
• Proven experience in a senior finance business partnering, FP&A, commercial finance or equivalent role, with a clear track record of delivering forward-looking financial and business intelligence to executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to combine financial and non-financial data sets to generate commercial insight and influence decision-making.
• Strong experience of revenue analysis, forecasting, and improving forecasting accuracy across complex or multi-stream income models.
• Experience of building and maintaining advanced financial models, dashboards and executive reporting packs.
• Track record of working directly with, and influencing, senior leaders including C-suite or executive-level stakeholders.
• Experience within a membership organization, professional body, charity or not-for-profit environment is highly desirable but not essential; equally, commercially-experienced candidates attracted to a purpose-led organization are welcomed.

Qualifications

• Commercial Acumen: deep understanding of the commercial and financial drivers of organizational performance, and the ability to connect financial results to business strategy and operations.
• Analytical Rigour: strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to interrogate data, identify patterns, and draw defensible conclusions.
• Financial Storytelling: exceptional ability to translate complex financial information into clear, compelling narrative for non-finance audiences, with strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Advanced Modelling: expert-level Excel including Power Query, Power Pivot, dynamic modeling, scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Business Intelligence Tooling: strong working knowledge of Power BI (or equivalent such as Tableau), including dashboard design principles. SQL or similar data-querying capability is desirable.
• Forecasting and Predictive Analytics: confident application of forecasting methods, trend analysis and basic predictive techniques to produce actionable short, medium and long-term intelligence.
• Executive Presence: the gravitas, confidence and judgement to engage credibly with the CEO, Executive Team and senior stakeholders, including the ability to constructively challenge.
• Proactivity and Curiosity: a self-starting mindset with the instinct to anticipate information needs and surface insight without waiting to be asked.
• Collaboration: strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships across Finance and the wider organization.
• Deep understanding of the financial management mix, including the distinctions between management accounts, statutory accounts, P&L, cash flow, and other forms of business performance reporting.
• Strong grasp of financial planning and analysis disciplines including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and scenario planning.
• Understanding of how to turn traditional accounting outputs into financial and business intelligence that drives decisions.
• Familiarity with the financial characteristics of membership, professional body or charity sector organizations (including restricted funds, charitable reporting considerations, and diverse income models) is desirable.
• Awareness of current trends in finance transformation, FP&A tooling, data analytics and business intelligence.

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Hybrid Working
• 27 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Birthday leave
• Paid Christmas office shutdown
• Private Medical Insurance and/or Health Cash Plan
• Life assurance (x4 salary)
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Free BCS membership
• Reimbursement for professional membership (role dependant)
• Holiday buying scheme
• Financial wellbeing support
• Peer recognition scheme
• Unum Help@Hand (including access to EAP, online GP consultations, wellbeing support, retail discounts and more)