Senior Finance Analyst

Your Company:

NET Recruit is pleased to be partnering with a well-established and successful commercial organisation in their search for an experienced Senior Finance Analyst to join their finance team in Dorset. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to take on a varied role combining financial reporting, analysis, accounting, budgeting, and business partnering. Working closely with the wider finance function and key stakeholders across the business, the successful candidate will play an important role in providing accurate and meaningful financial insight, supporting informed decision-making, and identifying opportunities to improve financial performance and processes.

Your Role and Responsibilities

While in this position, your duties may include but are not limited to:

• Providing timely, accurate, and insightful financial reporting and analysis to support business decision-making.
• Supporting the Finance Business Partner with regular financial reporting, analysis, budgets, and forecasts.
• Taking responsibility for accurate transactional accounting across key areas including contractual and turnover rent, service charges, rates, and landlords' insurance.
• Ensuring transactional-level financial data is accurately calculated, posted, and maintained.
• Supporting the Financial Accounting Manager with accurate and timely IFRS 16 accounting.
• Developing a strong understanding of relevant contractual and financial requirements and ensuring these are reflected accurately within financial reporting.
• Reviewing trading and non-trading operational costs, budgets, and forecasts to identify potential risks and commercial opportunities.
• Analysing financial and operational performance and providing clear commentary on key variances.
• Preparing accurate working papers to support accounting entries and month-end reporting.
• Completing balance sheet reconciliations and investigating and resolving discrepancies promptly.
• Preparing month-end cost reporting and variance analysis, providing clear explanations for movements and areas of concern.
• Supporting the Finance Business Partner with the preparation of annual budgets and forecasts, including one-off and year-end costs.
• Preparing balance sheet reviews and providing commentary on significant balances and movements.
• Reviewing existing finance processes and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and reporting.
• Challenging existing reporting requirements where appropriate and developing more effective approaches to financial analysis.
• Supporting Group and statutory year-end audits and responding to queries relating to the relevant business areas.
• Working closely with Finance, Property, Planning, Treasury, Tax, and other internal teams to ensure financial information is accurate and effectively communicated.
• Supporting and developing junior members of the finance team, acting as a positive role model and sharing knowledge and best practice.

What You Will Need to Apply:

To be considered for this opportunity, you will ideally be a part-qualified or qualified accountant with relevant practical experience gained across a range of finance roles within a commercially focused organisation. You will have strong experience in financial reporting, analysis, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end processes, together with the ability to interpret financial information and turn it into clear and commercially useful insight. Strong Microsoft Excel skills are essential, alongside excellent attention to detail and the ability to work confidently with large amounts of financial information. You will need to be comfortable investigating discrepancies, resolving issues, and ensuring financial information is accurate and delivered within agreed deadlines. You will also have the ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues, explaining complex accounting matters in a straightforward and accessible way. Commercial awareness is important, as you will be expected to understand the wider impact of financial performance and make balanced recommendations based on your analysis. The successful candidate will be proactive and comfortable working independently, while also collaborating effectively with wider Finance and cross-functional teams. You should have a continuous improvement mindset and be willing to challenge existing processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and reporting. Experience supporting or mentoring junior finance colleagues would also be advantageous, together with the confidence to act as a positive role model within the team.

What You Will Get in Return:

In return for your skills and experience, you will receive a salary of up to £35,000 per annum and have the opportunity to join an established and successful organisation where you will play an important role within the wider Finance function. The position offers a varied combination of financial accounting, commercial analysis, reporting, budgeting, and business partnering, providing excellent exposure across the organisation. You will work closely with experienced finance professionals and key stakeholders across the business, giving you the opportunity to develop your commercial understanding while taking ownership of important areas of financial reporting and analysis. The business encourages continuous improvement and values individuals who are willing to challenge existing processes, introduce new ideas, and find more effective ways of working. You will therefore have the opportunity to make a genuine contribution to the development of the Finance function. This is an excellent opportunity for a part-qualified or qualified finance professional looking for a Senior Finance Analyst position where they can combine strong technical accounting skills with commercial analysis and business partnering.

To express interest in this role and have a confidential chat, please reach out to:

Suzi Kocovska - Recruitment Partner M: 07743 971752 E: