Job title: Senior FP&A Analyst Salary: £70,000 - £85,000 per annum dependant on location and experience Location: London or Swindon Contract Type: Full-time, permanent
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 organisation beyond traditional management reporting, surfacing proactive, forward-looking financial and business intelligence that supports the CEO, Executive Team and Senior Leadership in steering the organisation.
Key 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 organisation’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 organisational 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 organisation 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.