Job title: Senior FP&A Analyst
Salary:   £70,000 - £85,000 per annum dependant on location and experience
Location: London or Swindon
Contract Type:  Full-time, permanent 

 

The Senior FP&A Analyst is a strategic finance role created to transform how BCS uses financial data to provide insight and drive executive decision-making. The role moves the organisation beyond traditional management reporting, surfacing proactive, forward-looking financial and business intelligence that supports the CEO, Executive Team and Senior Leadership in steering the organisation.

Key responsibilities:

  • Act as a proactive strategic finance partner to the CEO, CFO and Executive Team, anticipating information needs and surfacing meaningful business insight rather than reacting to ad-hoc reporting requests.
  • Interpret financial performance data and present trends, patterns and insights in business context, producing executive-ready analysis, commentary and presentation material that directly supports decision-making.
  • Lead on revenue analysis and revenue forecasting, driving improvements in forecasting accuracy across revenue streams and deepening the organisation’s understanding of the drivers behind performance.
  • Produce advanced P&L analysis, management accounting insight, and commercial performance reporting that goes beyond statutory and management accounts to create financial and business intelligence.
  • Combine financial data with operational, membership, commercial and other relevant data sets to create joined-up insight that illuminates organisational performance and opportunity.
  • Develop and maintain business intelligence dashboards, models and reporting mechanisms that provide the Executive Team with timely, relevant and actionable information.
  • Apply predictive analytics to monitor, report, spot and forecast trends and patterns — turning financial data into short, medium and long-term forward-looking insight.
  • Build and refine financial models to support scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, investment appraisal and strategic decision-making.
  • Partner with colleagues across the organisation to understand performance drivers, challenge assumptions constructively, and improve the quality of financial and commercial decision-making.
  • Translate complex financial information into clear, compelling narrative for non-finance audiences at Executive, Senior Leadership and governance levels, including Committees and Council where required.
  • Identify opportunities to improve the financial management mix, reporting processes, data flows and tooling, working closely with the CFO on continuous improvement.
  • Support the annual budget and re-forecast cycles with analytical rigour, providing challenge, insight and forward-looking perspective.
  • Represent Finance in cross-functional initiatives requiring financial analysis, modelling or intelligence input.

Who are we looking for?

Education and qualifications
  • Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), or equivalent by experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related discipline.
  • Further qualification or certification in data analytics, business intelligence or financial modelling (e.g. Microsoft Power BI, CFA, FMVA, or similar) is advantageous.
Experience
  • Proven experience in a senior finance business partnering, FP&A, commercial finance or equivalent role, with a clear track record of delivering forward-looking financial and business intelligence to executive audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to combine financial and non-financial data sets to generate commercial insight and influence decision-making.
  • Strong experience of revenue analysis, forecasting, and improving forecasting accuracy across complex or multi-stream income models.
  • Experience of building and maintaining advanced financial models, dashboards and executive reporting packs.
  • Track record of working directly with, and influencing, senior leaders including C-suite or executive-level stakeholders.
  • Experience within a membership organisation, professional body, charity or not-for-profit environment is highly desirable but not essential; equally, commercially-experienced candidates attracted to a purpose-led organisation are welcomed.
Competencies and skills
  • Commercial Acumen: deep understanding of the commercial and financial drivers of organisational performance, and the ability to connect financial results to business strategy and operations.
  • Analytical Rigour: strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to interrogate data, identify patterns, and draw defensible conclusions.
  • Financial Storytelling: exceptional ability to translate complex financial information into clear, compelling narrative for non-finance audiences, with strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
  • Advanced Modelling: expert-level Excel including Power Query, Power Pivot, dynamic modelling, scenario and sensitivity analysis.
  • Business Intelligence Tooling: strong working knowledge of Power BI (or equivalent such as Tableau), including dashboard design principles. SQL or similar data-querying capability is desirable.
  • Forecasting and Predictive Analytics: confident application of forecasting methods, trend analysis and basic predictive techniques to produce actionable short, medium and long-term intelligence.
  • Executive Presence: the gravitas, confidence and judgement to engage credibly with the CEO, Executive Team and senior stakeholders, including the ability to constructively challenge.
  • Proactivity and Curiosity: a self-starting mindset with the instinct to anticipate information needs and surface insight without waiting to be asked.
  • Collaboration: strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships across Finance and the wider organisation.
Knowledge
  • Deep understanding of the financial management mix, including the distinctions between management accounts, statutory accounts, P&L, cash flow, and other forms of business performance reporting.
  • Strong grasp of financial planning and analysis disciplines including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and scenario planning.
  • Understanding of how to turn traditional accounting outputs into financial and business intelligence that drives decisions.
  • Familiarity with the financial characteristics of membership, professional body or charity sector organisations (including restricted funds, charitable reporting considerations, and diverse income models) is desirable.
  • Awareness of current trends in finance transformation, FP&A tooling, data analytics and business intelligence.
Special conditions
  • Based at BCS’ offices with a hybrid working pattern in line with BCS policy.
  • Occasional travel in the UK may be required for meetings, events and stakeholder engagement.

BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential, and also offer a generous benefit package.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT are committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.

PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.

In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.

No recruitment agencies please.

How to apply: Please apply by submitting your CV to careers@bcs.uk along with a cover note answering the following questions:

(a) Your area(s) of expertise & qualifications;

(b) Your experience and suitability for the role

We look forward to hearing from you!

What we offer

  • Group Personal Pension Plan
  • Hybrid Working
  • 27 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
  • Birthday leave
  • Paid Christmas office shutdown
  • Private Medical Insurance and/or Health Cash Plan
  • Life assurance (x4 salary)
  • Income protection
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
  • Free BCS membership
  • Reimbursement for professional membership (role dependant)
  • Holiday buying scheme
  • Financial wellbeing support
  • Peer recognition scheme
  • Unum Help@Hand (including access to EAP, online GP consultations, wellbeing support, retail discounts and more)