Overheads Analyst

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in a fast-paced, innovative environment? Our Commercial Finance team is at the heart of our business, partnering with all areas of the Group to deliver detailed insights and forecasts. We drive commercial success and fulfill our mission of helping every household make the most of their money.

The Overheads Analyst role sits within the OPEX Team in Commercial Finance and plays a meaningful role in the Group. You'll partner across our teams to provide clear overhead reporting and analysis, along with accurate planning and forecasting. This role is critical in helping to achieve our mission of ‘helping households save money’.

What Does the Team Do?

The team consists of 2 Overhead Analysts who work closely together to be responsible for an OPEX base of approximately £150m. The whole team owns:

• Owning the financial planning and performance reporting and decision support for people costs and Group overheads.
• Providing finance support for the People, Facilities, and Finance leadership teams.
• Efficient and effective people Organisational Development (OD) and cost controls.
• Management accounting activity across all operating expenditure.
• Working with the people team to implement and operate payroll processes and controls.
• Responsibility for the overheads forecast, analysis, and reporting.
• Working closely with the financial control team to ensure overheads accounting is accurate and well understood.
• Collaborating with other teams across the business to ensure all costs are accurately posted and forecasted at a vertical level.
• Manage month-end, reporting, and forecasting for overheads, support finance team and business.

What can you expect in the role?

The role currently has overall responsibility for the following cost lines in the group P&L:

• IT Costs (Hosting Charges, Licenses & Software etc.)
• Other Admin Costs (Office & Premises costs, Legal & Professional costs, Insurance etc.)

• Month-end management accounting tasks including actualising forecast files, cost centre coding checks/corrections, Workday approvals, variance analysis, and management account commentary.
• Regular review of accruals and prepayments for assigned areas to highlight risks and opportunities where appropriate.
• Support cost centre managers by providing financial insights and influencing cost decisions to improve financial performance and identify risks.
• Supporting cost improvement and benchmarking initiatives against internal targets and external standard methodology.
• Working with our financial systems (which include Workday & Anaplan) and ensure they are kept accurate and up-to-date.
• Improving and automating OPEX reporting and processes with a focus on continuous improvement across all processes and systems.
• Supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner with the budgeting and forecasting process across the Group and providing cost modelling scenarios as required.
• Covering critical processes during month-end and quarterly forecast processes as required.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Work: Your insights will directly influence key decisions and drive our commercial success!
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with senior leaders and their teams, becoming a trusted advisor.
• Growth Opportunities: Help us achieve our growth targets and be part of our exciting journey.

What are we looking for in this role?

Need someone with soft skills to support senior non-finance colleagues, understand business area deeply, challenge when necessary, and have business competence.

• Working towards a finance qualification (AAT, ACCA or equivalent experience) or planning to do so.
• Prior experience of working in a finance role, with exposure to working with various financial systems (Workday, Anaplan etc.).
• A proactive, can-do attitude with an eagerness to learn and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good numeracy and analytical skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Good oral and written communication skills to explain financials to non-finance colleagues.
• Strong organisational skills to meet challenging deadlines and to manage collaborator expectations across different levels of the organisation.
• Good Microsoft Excel skills (including lookups, pivot tables, and other basic formulas).

Our benefits include up to 30 days holiday, a bonus, enhanced parental leave, and tools that empower our supportive culture. You can find a full list here.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.

Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at [email protected]