Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst - Technology

Salary: National ranging from £39,100 to £48,800 and London from £41,600 to £51,900

Are you thrilled about the chance to collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team and shape the future of the FCA Technology and Data Division? Dive into a hands-on role in Financial Data Analysis, where your insights will drive strategic decision-making and make a real impact!

Guidance

The team/department

The Financial Analyst role sits within DTI Business Management & Delivery and is responsible for delivering a financial management service to the Heads of DTI Departments, providing timely, accurate and effective financial data and analysis, to enable the HoDs to provide effective financial control. Responsible for operating financial management processes that are specific to DTI.

What you will be doing (the role)

• Delivering a financial management service to execute a common set of financial standards, processes and deliverables across DTI
• Delivering accurate and timely monthly financial MI to the (HoDs) with appropriate levels of insight, analysis and challenge to enable their clear understanding of and be able to account for the financial performance of the unit
• Monitoring and managing supplier compliance to the FCA Financial Management Policies, Processes and Procedures, and financial terms and conditions. Identifies and escalates issues with supplier pricing and invoicing
• Leading the completion of the forecast process for the relevant division including information gathering, providing third party evidence for accruals

What you will get from the role

• Experience in financial modelling and finance operations in an IT organisation
• Exposure to Senior Leadership across multiple divisions
• Working in a fast-paced environment, where your work contributes to meaningful decisions and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the organisation
• Challenge your analytical skills and creativity

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Experience of providing a financial management service to IT division of large corporations, government or regulatory bodies
• Experience of implementing financial management frameworks for monitoring a divisions’ performance against financial indicators and forecasts vs actuals

Essential

• Experience of implementing initiatives to improve services delivered to internal teams
• Analytical, able to critically assess information to make recommendations and inform decision making based on financial data
• Able to build and maintain a broad range of relationships across the organisation, collaborating with corporate functions and leadership teams to ensure effective completion and governance of corporate activities
• Good influencer, able to harmoniously reach agreement where there may be no initial clear solution. Ensuring priorities receive adequate attention and resource to deliver in line with time and cost commitments
• Computer literacy with well-developed skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, experience with Tableau is a plus

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Associate role.

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

Multi-location

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

Useful information

• Applications for this role close at 23:59 on the 4th October 2024
• This role is graded as Associate – Corporate

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:

For internal applicants, please contact Michael Wood at Michael.Wood@fca.org.uk

For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis, asha.gladis@fca.org.uk

What to expect from our interview process

The assessment process consists of an initial screening call with one our Recruitment Partners. If successful, you will be invited to attend a first stage competency-based interview. The final stage will include a technical case study and competency-based questions.

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.