Job Description Summary
Commercial Finance Analyst – Permanent. Location: Witham. Hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time. Salary: A competitive salary from £33,520 – £50,280. Closing date: 1 October 2026.
About Aegon
We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. We work with customers, financial advisers and employers to provide pensions, savings and investment solutions. We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.
Key Responsibilities
- Support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting activities across the business.
- Analyse financial performance, including variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
- Produce and deliver accurate month-end reporting, ensuring deadlines are met and outputs support effective decision-making.
- Partner with business stakeholders and senior leaders to provide financial insight and challenge where required.
- Support the annual planning process and ongoing forecasting cycle, helping to drive financial performance and profitability.
- Complete key financial control activities, including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments and management reporting.
What we’re looking for
- Experience working within a finance function, with a strong understanding of financial reporting and analysis.
- Management accounting experience, including month-end activities, journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Strong Excel skills and the ability to analyse and interpret financial data.
- Good understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet reporting and finance ledgers.
- Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly.
- Studying towards a professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) or equivalent relevant finance qualification is preferred though not essential.
What’s in it for you?
- Enhanced pension scheme: you contribute 3% of salary, we contribute 9%, matching up to 20% combined (7% from you, 13% from us).
- Discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
- 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time).
- Private medical cover.
- Life assurance.
- Critical illness cover.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Retail discount vouchers.
- Cycle2work scheme.
- Subsidised restaurant.
- Online GP appointments.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
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