Financial Analyst

Brief

Our client is seeking a Financial Analyst to join a growing UK-based business. The role will focus on financial analysis, management reporting, costing, and commercial insights to support better business decisions.

The successful candidate will analyse financial and operational data, assess costs and profitability, support pricing decisions, and provide clear reporting to management. Experience in an asset-heavy or operationally complex industry would be an advantage.

About the clients

Our client is a growing, diversified UK-based business operating across multiple operational and asset-intensive sectors. The company is now developing a dedicated management information function to provide clearer financial and commercial insight and support better business decisions.

Responsibilities

Financial Analysis & Management Information

• Develop and maintain management reports, dashboards, and financial analysis for senior management.

• Analyse financial and operational data to identify profitability, cost trends, variances, and areas requiring attention.

• Analyse the genuine cost and profitability of different business activities.

• Help answer key commercial questions around costs, margins, pricing, customers, and contracts.

• Investigate unusual figures and identify the reasons behind financial and operational variances.

Cost & Profitability Analysis

• Analyze the operating costs of vehicles, lorries, machinery and others.

• Develop cost-per-mile, cost-per-kilometre, and cost-per-hour calculations where appropriate.

• Analyse labour, fuel, maintenance, machinery, and other operational costs.

• Support the development of appropriate charge-out rates and pricing models.

• Analyse customer and contract profitability.

• Identify opportunities to improve margins and reduce unnecessary costs.

Data & Reporting

• Work with information from accounting systems, spreadsheets, timesheets, vehicle records, fuel data, maintenance records, and other operational sources.

• Consolidate information from multiple sources and identify gaps or inconsistencies.

• Improve the structure, accuracy, and reliability of financial and operational data.

• Help determine what information the business needs and how it should be collected.

• Develop and improve dashboards, reporting tools, spreadsheets, and financial models.

Commercial Support

• Provide financial analysis to support pricing, estimating, tendering, purchasing, and operational decisions.

• Analyse fleet and plant performance and utilisation.

• Provide ad-hoc analysis and financial modelling as required.

• Present financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders and management.