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Location: London
Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 days from home)
Role summary
We’re on the lookout for an ambitious Junior Finance Analyst to join Grayling UK’s Commercial Finance team, in London. You’ll play a key role in financial planning, reporting, and analysis to support business performance. From budgeting and forecasting to developing key reports and providing strategic insights to senior stakeholders, you’ll help drive informed decision-making and improve financial analytics across the business.
The day to day
- Support the Commercial Finance team in:
- The annual budget process for business units globally.
- Regular updates of financial forecasts.
- The formal quarterly forecasting process and combining forecasts across the business into a clear narrative of overall business performance.
- Working alongside the Commercial team to conduct in-depth analysis of P&L performance, understanding revenue & cost drivers, and highlight risks or opportunities to plan.
- Produce and develop key reporting packs, including weekly new business wins, monthly flash results and monthly management dashboards for business unit leads.
- Interpret and communicate financial performance providing key insights on business KPI’s and trends to senior stakeholders.
- Develop new financial analysis and insights – promoting and driving greater use of analytics throughout the division.
- Support the Finance Director in preparing Board presentations.
- Maintain information in FP&A systems by working with the wider Finance Team to ensure accurate data is captured.
- Assist in implementation of BI reporting tools including requirements gathering, tool selection and report design. Assist in data management and consistency.
What will give you the edge
- A finance related degree
- A strong grasp of Excel
- Ability to manipulate large volumes of data, adding value by identifying and communicating key trends & insights.
- Highly numerate with experience of data analysis.
- Driven, problem solver with a desire to learn new skills & systems to further career progression and develop the role.
- Ability to use PowerPoint for producing presentations
Our promises to you
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working & flexi time.
- 25 days’ holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days.
- Additional day of leave on your birthday.
- Gifted time off over Christmas.
- Flexible benefits platform where you are in complete control of what you receive. It could be anything from dental to gym membership, wellbeing initiatives, training, discount deals or simply a contribution to everyday bills and subscriptions (think Netflix, Amazon, Spotify etc!)
- Enhanced family-friendly policies.
- Free subscription to Calm app.
- Free breakfasts, fruit and weekly drinks in the office.
- Regular team socials and early finish Fridays.
- An abundance of personal development opportunities, through our Grayling Advantage Academy (with courses ranging from writing, resilience, creativity and more.)
- New business and employee referral bonuses.
- Interest-free season ticket loan & Railcard reimbursement
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line.
- Life assurance.
Get to know us
Grayling is the UK’s best-connected communications agency. With nine offices across the UK and 22 offices around the world, we create advantage for our clients through insight-led campaigns that deliver tangible results. We are proudly part of Accordience, an international public relations, public affairs, financial and corporate communications group – made up of Grayling, Citigate Dewe Rogerson (CDR), Red and Cirkle. Together, we have c.1,000 employees and operations in 30 countries.
We believe diversity is strength. Our commitment at Grayling is to combine our employees’ unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organization that represents all of us and the businesses we work with. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and will give fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, family or parental status, neurodiversity and disability status.
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and will be very happy to provide any reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process. For any advice or assistance please contact [email protected]
