Financial Analyst

Overview

You will help drive strategic financial insights for a leading charity as an interim Financial Analyst. In this 6‑month role, you’ll support quarterly finance outputs, build and audit a three‑way financial model, and translate business drivers into clear, auditable logic. You’ll collaborate with finance partners and directorates to ensure insights are actionable and aligned with strategic objectives. This is a hands‑on, data‑driven role with meaningful impact on planning and risk management.

Pay / Benefits

• £21-£25 p/h (DOE)

Responsibilities

• Support quarterly strategic finance outputs, including income analysis, risk assessment, pipeline movements and financial trends
• Collaborate with finance business partners and directorate leads to interpret results and extract actionable insights
• Assist with ad hoc strategic finance projects, including scenario analysis and forward financial plans
• Contribute to development of a three‑way financial model (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) aligned with strategic planning needs
• Translate drivers into auditable model logic and ensure three‑way linkages (working capital, depreciation, capex, funding flows, cash movements)
• Document model logic, assumptions and calculation flows; maintain central assumptions register
• Identify data inputs and validate assumptions with stakeholders; challenge for accuracy and alignment
• Reconcile model outputs to financial systems and forecasts; resolve inconsistencies
• Ensure data integrity across inputs, calculations and outputs

Key requirements

• 3+ years of experience in financial analysis
• Immediate start or 1 week notice
• unknown education level

• attention to detail
• stakeholder management
• problem solving
• advanced financial modelling (three-way P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
• scenario analysis
• data validation and reconciliation

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