Finance Analyst - 36 hours

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.