Financial Reporting Analyst

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.
Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

The Role:

The Financial Reporting analyst will support the delivery of, and improvement in, a number of key management reporting and planning processes in relation to the M&G PLC group wide expense base.   By providing consistent, high quality commercial insight the role will play a key role in supporting decision making and the delivery of the Groups long term expense aspirations.

The role works closely with the finance business partnering community from across the Group in order to review, challenge and report on functional and segment expense plans and performance.

Finally, the role will also support, embed and integrate new ways of working as we look to streamline our processes.

 The role will involve a blend of home and office based working from our Edinburgh or Stirling offices.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

• Support in the delivery of group level management expense reporting and forecasting.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including finance business partners to support commercial decision making and the co-ordination of key processes.
• Deliver high quality management information, performance reporting and analysis by preparing, developing, and analysing key financial information.
• Remain up to date with key performance and financial matters and develop an understanding of the KPIs and cost drivers that impact business performance.
• Manipulate and analyse data to provide adhoc value add commercial insight and commentary to support in maximising results.
• Working with BAU and transformation teams to identify and deliver on potential areas of improvement in our tools and processes.  Taking ownership to see issues through to conclusion.
• Work closely with the offshore expense team to ensure we deliver processes & outputs in the most efficient manner.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Experienced in planning & reporting of business performance with strong numerical and analytical skills.  Experience of using, maintaining and improving consolidated finance systems to support key processes.
• Strong organisation skills supporting large, complex processes.   Also comfortable in dealing with ambiguity and applying financial techniques to review submissions and draw sensible conclusions from large datasets. Strong attention to detail is a must.
• Comfortable in developing a broad base of relationships with key contacts and having the confidence to challenge business performance and submissions. 
• Experience in working across multi disciplinary, virtual teams would be beneficial.
• Proven track record of combining advanced financial analysis with qualitative investigation to generate insights.  Adept at compiling robust financial projections aligned with other relevant management processes.
• Comfortable in identifying issues and trends when analysing financial data.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills are a prerequisite.  Experience in Oracle EPM, Hyperion Smart View would also be beneficial.
• Previous experience of accurately communicating business issues to appropriate parties and providing support to stakeholders.
• This role would be suited to a qualified/ working towards qualification Accountant.
• Financial Services experience preferable.

What we offer:

We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.

M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: [email protected]