About the Role
The FP&A Analyst supports divisional financial planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and management information activities. This role transforms financial and operational data into meaningful insight to support strategic and operational decision-making, contributing to budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, scenario modelling, and executive reporting.
Responsibilities
- Support annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning activities.
- Develop and maintain financial forecasting models.
- Support consolidation of planning assumptions and forecast submissions.
- Assist with scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis.
- Prepare management reports, executive dashboards, and reporting packs.
- Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year.
- Analyse revenue, profitability, utilisation, and cost performance.
- Identify financial trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Translate financial data into actionable business insight.
- Support strategic planning, resource allocation, and performance improvement.
- Maintain planning data integrity and reporting consistency.
- Contribute to improvements in forecasting, reporting methodologies, and planning processes.
- Support adoption of reporting tools and analytical best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business Administration or related discipline.
- Experience in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, or business performance analysis.
- Experience in professional services, consulting, or project-based environments is advantageous.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability.
- Experience with ERP systems and reporting platforms; Power BI or Tableau experience is advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of forecasting, budgeting, and management reporting.
- Ability to analyse forecast variances, profitability, planning assumptions, and business performance.
- Experience building scenarios and recommending improvements to planning accuracy.
- Strong analytical thinking and continuous improvement mindset.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to explain financial information clearly and work collaboratively with finance and business stakeholders.
- Build positive relationships that support planning and reporting activities.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to data integrity.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple deadlines.
- Proactive, collaborative, and focused on delivering meaningful financial insight.
Skills
- Advanced Excel
- Financial modelling
- ERP systems
- Reporting platforms
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Forecasting
- Budgeting
- Management reporting
- Variance analysis
- Scenario building
- Analytical thinking
- Communication
- Presentation skills
- Organisational skills
Location
- London
- Brighton
- Manchester
Work Type
- Hybrid
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business Administration or related discipline.
About the Company
- Inizio is a global partner with over 10,500 experts operating in more than 50 countries.
- We support health and life science companies by turning science into strategy and executing across the product and patient journey.
Equal Opportunity
- At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers.
- We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
- If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.
- You may be just the right person for this role or others.
