Job summary
Are you a part-qualified accountant with a passion for financial analysis and a desire to make a positive impact in the not-for-profit sector?
Do you excel in using your analytical skills to provide insights, challenge assumptions, and drive organisational performance?
BPAS are looking for a Finance Analyst to come and join our finance team. This role is a permanent, hybrid role, working 36 hours per week over Monday to Friday. You will work remotely from home with travel to our Head Office once a week.
About the role:
As a Finance Analyst, you will provide detailed analysis of income and costs. Your responsibilities will include project monitoring, contracts profitability analysis, KPI analysis, & budgeting & forecasting. You'll participate in the implementation of Power BI reporting, ensuring data assurance and compliance with policies & procedures.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on diverse financial projects, contribute to BPAS' long-term planning, & enhance your skills in financial modeling & analysis.
About you:
You'll be a part-qualified accountant with finance department experience. This could be within the not-for-profit sector, but we also welcome commercially aware individuals too. Your understanding of financial accounting principles, use of KPI metrics, and proficiency in Excel (including modeling) will be key to success. Power BI experience is desirable, and your ability to work collaboratively at all levels of an organisation will set you apart.
Main duties of the job
- Update project expenditure reports both opex and capex, in a timely manner
- Analyse monthly
income and activity by contract, service, and location to understand price and
volume variances.
- Develop understandings
of service delivery costs per client, in terms of staffing, stock consumables,
premises and other overhead and support costs
- Work with other technical
staff and financial management to develop financial reporting using Power BI, other
MS Office software and the outputs of financial and related systems
- Liaise with Project
Managers so they are able to maintain good financial control of their budgets,
specifically for IT costs and new clinic openings
- To develop methods for
incorporating new projects into budgets and forecasts
- Support contract
tenders by providing the required financial data
- Analyse variances each
month and investigate with accounts team as necessary, challenging and
escalating where issues are uncovered
- Provide insightful
commentary as necessary for Operational managers, Support managers and the
finance team, identifying and explaining underlying trends
- Provide support to
other non finance teams as necessary to understand their KPIs in particular
where they do not have dedicated data analysts
About us
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK's largest independent women's reproductive healthcare charity. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS across the country providing abortion, contraception, STI testing & treatment. We specialise in evidence-based, not-for-profit care reproductive healthcare.
Working with us:
Alongside a supportive and friendly working environment, BPAS has generous benefits: life assurance cover at 3 times salary, 34 days annual leave per year & a defined contribution pension scheme. You will have access to our employee benefits programme through BHSF which includes special health & wellbeing services & lifestyle offers for you & your family. This includes various salary sacrifice schemes, counselling services & free private GP appointments.
For our clinical roles, a full clinical training package will be provided along with comprehensive support. Nursing & midwifery colleagues will have the opportunity to train in 1st & 2nd trimester sonography scanning, contraception fitting & STI testing. For surgical units you will gain experience in conscious sedation & general anaesthetic treatment in our operating departments.
BPAS is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children & young people through a safer recruitment framework. This includes a thorough selection process & a number of pre-employment checks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A full job description is available for you to download and review along with our T&Cs and Salary information. This can be found on the right hand side of the advert under supporting information.
Further Information
Location: Hybrid working with the expectation
of travel to our Head Office once per week. Potential to have to travel more for training in the first few weeks.
Head Office: Tachbrook Park, Athena Drive, Leamington Spa, CV34 6RQ
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Hours of Work:
- Monday to Thursday | 09:00 - 17:00
- Friday | 09:00 - 15:30
Salary: £41,118 to £45,125 per annum - Depending on skills and experience
Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!
This job advert may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.
If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.
References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 3 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.
COVID-19: BPAS encourages all applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and we invite you to share evidence of your vaccination status. This is in addition to the requirement to provide evidence of vaccination/immunity against the following conditions of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, MMR and Varicella for clinical roles directly involved in patient care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A full job description is available for you to download and review along with our T&Cs and Salary information. This can be found on the right hand side of the advert under supporting information.
Further Information
Location: Hybrid working with the expectation
of travel to our Head Office once per week. Potential to have to travel more for training in the first few weeks.
Head Office: Tachbrook Park, Athena Drive, Leamington Spa, CV34 6RQ
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Hours of Work:
- Monday to Thursday | 09:00 - 17:00
- Friday | 09:00 - 15:30
Salary: £41,118 to £45,125 per annum - Depending on skills and experience
Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!
This job advert may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.
If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.
References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 3 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.
COVID-19: BPAS encourages all applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and we invite you to share evidence of your vaccination status. This is in addition to the requirement to provide evidence of vaccination/immunity against the following conditions of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, MMR and Varicella for clinical roles directly involved in patient care.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within finance departments and with non finance staff
- Experience of working with different finance and data systems
Desirable
- Experience of working within the not-for-profit sector desirable, but also commercially aware
General
Essential
- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and the nature of the relationship.
- This is a hybrid role working from home and travelling to our Head Office in Leamington Spa once a week. Can you commit to this?
- Are you aware this role is for 36 hours per week over Monday to Friday?
Desirable
- Please list any further information or statements if you wish to support your application.
Qualifications
Essential
- Part Qualified accountant - preferably with CIMA
Desirable
- Further education in STEM subject
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understanding of financial accounting principles
- Use of KPI metrics to drive an organisations performance
- Good communicator able to communicate at all levels of an organisation about numbers and to present figures visually
- Good Excel skills (e.g., pivots, SUMIFs etc.) including experience of modelling
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within finance departments and with non finance staff
- Experience of working with different finance and data systems
Desirable
- Experience of working within the not-for-profit sector desirable, but also commercially aware
General
Essential
- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and the nature of the relationship.
- This is a hybrid role working from home and travelling to our Head Office in Leamington Spa once a week. Can you commit to this?
- Are you aware this role is for 36 hours per week over Monday to Friday?
Desirable
- Please list any further information or statements if you wish to support your application.
Qualifications
Essential
- Part Qualified accountant - preferably with CIMA
Desirable
- Further education in STEM subject
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understanding of financial accounting principles
- Use of KPI metrics to drive an organisations performance
- Good communicator able to communicate at all levels of an organisation about numbers and to present figures visually
- Good Excel skills (e.g., pivots, SUMIFs etc.) including experience of modelling
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
