Finance Analyst

Job Description

Finance Analyst\n\nBirmingham | Permanent | £45,000 - £55,000\n\nReady to make a real impact on the future of financial reporting at a world leader in their field?\n\nMy client is investing heavily in digital transformation, and we're supporting them with the growth of their FP&A team to build smarter, faster, more connected reporting. If you love data, automation, SQL, Power BI, and improving how things work, this is your chance to shape a reporting environment used by stakeholders right across a globally recognised organisation.\n\n The Opportunity\n\nAs Finance Analyst, you'll play a key role in optimising and enhancing the core suite of financial reports, models, and templates. You'll be hands-on with data and systems every day, improving accuracy, speeding up processes, and helping to reach a point where reports can be produced at the click of a button.\n\nYou'll work closely with the Senior Finance Analyst and alongside another Analysts, contributing to both BAU reporting and larger development projects as they look to modernise reporting infrastructure.

It's a role with breadth, autonomy, and the chance to make a visible difference.\n\n What You'll Be Doing\n\nMaintaining, improving, and streamlining financial reports, dashboards, and templates\nEnhancing data processes using SQL, Power BI, Power Query and advanced Excel\nSupporting the rollout of improved reporting, documentation and training\nTroubleshooting reporting issues and improving user experience across Finance\nCollaborating with stakeholders to understand reporting needs and build better solutions\nContributing to major transformation projects across FP&A and Finance What We're Looking For\n\nA qualified or part‑qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA) or equivalent strong practical experience\nStrong technical capability in data, reporting and modelling\nConfident with SQL, Power BI, and advanced Excel\nAnalytical, curious, and comfortable challenging inefficiency\nAble to work autonomously, prioritise effectively, and manage multiple tasks\nGreat communicator who can translate technical detail into meaningful outputs for stakeholders Why Join our client?\n\nHuge investment in digital infrastructure of £20m per year\nSupportive, collaborative culture with genuinely impressive leadership\nBig focus on development, progression, and upskilling\nThe chance to build reporting that shapes decision making \n\nAt Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a confident employer.\n\nBy applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data