Finance Analyst job, outskirts of Bath with excellent benefits Your new company We''re looking for a Financial Analyst to help shape financial planning and reporting. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic team where your insights will directly influence key decisions. In this role, you''ll support the Head of Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis, working alongside the Senior Financial Analyst to develop and maintain core financial data sets. Your work will play a crucial part in ensuring the organisations sustainability.Your new role You''ll play a key role in financial modelling, including the forecasting model for the organisations five-year plan, and create insightful financial reports using business intelligence tools. Working closely with system accountants, you''ll help improve reporting accuracy and streamline financial processes to drive efficiency. Duties will include:To undertake monthly monitoring and reconciliation to enable tracking against budget and highlight variances in a timely manner to support forecast adjustments. To develop and maintain a model to support the reporting of pay expenditure compared to budgeted and highlight and understand variances for reporting.To provide and analyse data for use in the annual returns. Identify, analyse and provide commentary on year-on-year variances.To prepare/analyse data for internal segmental reporting.To create targeted system reports which offer key insights into areas of expenditure both at depa