Finance Analyst

About the Role

The role, within our Skills Credentialing commercial finance team, is an important and exciting one, and your work will both enable and support senior members of this team, as well as support various stakeholders within sales, commercial and product teams directly. In addition, you will be expected to be a conduit for improved communication and collaboration with our finance shared service team, also based in Wakefield.

From owning and improving month end accounting and reporting processes, to delivering regular and ad hoc revenue analysis on both Excel and PowerBi, involvement in pricing and improving invoicing processes, the role is varied and enables a good grounding in all things commercial finance. Whilst the initial focus of the role is expected to be revenue and sales related, it is likely it will evolve to include some elements of cost accounting, reporting and analysis.

About You

We are looking for a high calibre finance analyst, full of potential, who is likely to be in the earlier stages of their finance career and is at home analysing high volumes of data and confident working with a variety of stakeholders across the business. This person will be inquisitive by nature, a highly numerical problem solver, who identifies and delivers improvements in processes and reporting that deliver quicker, more accurate and insightful information that we can act upon.

This person will be developed on their finance pathway through a mixture of mentoring, camaraderie and experience, as well as the full study package, such that they can add value to our organisation and fulfil their potential as a high value add commercial finance professional.

Our Story And Mission

Our vision is for a world in which everyone has the skills and opportunities to succeed. We support almost five million people each year to develop skills that help them into a job, develop on that job and to prepare for their next job. As a charity, we’re proud that everything we do is focused on achieving this purpose.

Through our assessment and credentialing, corporate learning and technical training offers, we partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again – gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.

At the heart of our business sits the City & Guilds Foundation which amplifies our purpose by helping to remove barriers to getting into a job, celebrating best practice on the job, and advocating for jobs of the future.

We were founded in 1878 by the City of London and the trade guilds of the time, to help people, organisations and economies to develop their skills for growth.

Our rich experience means we’re uniquely positioned to understand the future of work and learning. And, we continually evolve to develop and deliver skills for the workplace of the future. Today, as well as qualifications and assessment, we offer digital credentialing, elearning technologies, executive leadership development, technical training and consultancy.

What We Offer

We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.

You’ll receive an excellent benefits package which typically includes a great base salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension, private healthcare, volunteering opportunities and much more.

We welcome a discussion about how this role could work flexibly for you. For example work pattern, hours or location.

Next Steps And How To Apply

If you think this is the role and organisation for you then we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and complete our short application form using the apply button.