Finance Data Analyst

About the Role

The Finance Data Analyst plays a central role in helping the Finance function make confident, data-driven decisions. You'll turn financial and operational data into timely, accurate, and meaningful information that supports reporting, planning, and performance management across the business.

Working closely with Finance, Data & Analytics, and other stakeholders, you'll build and maintain the reports, dashboards, and analytical models that underpin month-end processes, forecasting, and ongoing performance tracking - while also helping resolve data quality issues, improve reporting efficiency, and turn business questions into practical analytical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and continuously improve finance reports, dashboards, and recurring analytical outputs that support month-end close, forecasting, budgeting, and performance reviews.
• Ensure existing finance reporting is delivered accurately and on time, investigating variances, anomalies, and data issues as they come up.
• Work with large and sometimes disparate data sets, preparing and transforming data to generate meaningful business insight.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders to gather requirements, define KPIs, and translate business questions into clear, practical analytical solutions.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis and models that surface trends, risks, and opportunities, and support decision-making with actionable recommendations.
• Help lift the quality of finance data by spotting gaps and inconsistencies, and working with the right stakeholders to resolve them.
• Contribute to the design and improvement of reporting processes, data definitions, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
• Respond to finance-related system, reporting, and data queries from internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Data & Analytics and upstream data owners to keep finance reporting logic consistent, scalable, and easy to understand.
• Document report logic, metric definitions, data mappings, and process steps to support continuity and good governance.

What Makes This Role Interesting

• You'll work across multiple data sources with varying levels of quality and completeness - a great opportunity to sharpen your data investigation and problem-solving skills.
• Translating finance and commercial needs into clear reporting logic and outputs is a core part of the role.
• You'll balance recurring reporting deadlines with ad hoc requests, learning to manage shifting priorities effectively.
• Getting to the root cause of data discrepancies and reconciling differences across systems is a regular and rewarding challenge.
• Strong communication matters - you'll explain analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You'll help maintain reporting accuracy and consistency while driving improvements in automation and efficiency.

Autonomy & Decision-Making

You'll have ownership over day-to-day prioritization of analytical tasks, report design within agreed standards, data validation approaches, and recommendations for reporting improvements.

Bigger decisions - such as major changes to finance reporting strategy, investment in new tools or platforms, or material changes to metric definitions and governance - are made in partnership with senior stakeholders.