Commercial Finance Analyst, Wakefield

Overview

In this role, you will support financial performance, governance and commercial management for a defined client portfolio. You translate complex financial data into actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders and partner with client teams to drive profitability. You will work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, collaborating across functions to enable informed commercial decisions. This is a hybrid, permanent role in the UK, focused on delivering high-quality reporting, budgeting, and forecasting to support growth and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support Commercial Finance leadership in client account financial management
• Analyze client contracts, scopes of work and business cases for risks and opportunities
• Prepare and maintain client budgets and forecasts, identify variances and trends
• Produce profitability analyses at client/account/project levels for reviews
• Business partnering with client teams and translate financial data into insights
• Respond to ad-hoc financial analyses and support growth through modelling
• Prepare monthly management information with P&L analysis and commentary
• Support month-end close, accruals, revenue recognition and reconciliations
• Assist with budgeting and rolling forecasts
• Maintain reporting tools and dashboards for visibility
• Support governance, controls and compliance, balance sheet reconciliations

Key requirements

• Part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, CMA, ACCA)
• Experience in a finance analyst, commercial finance or finance business partnering role
• Strong understanding of P&L and balance sheet concepts
• Advanced Excel with financial modelling and data analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
• Experience in project-based, services, media, marketing or agency environment (desirable)
• Experience in multi-entity or international environment; familiarity with ERP systems and BI/reporting tools (desirable)

• analytical mindset
• proactivity
• collaborative
• financial modelling
• data analysis in Excel
• P&L and balance sheet understanding

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