Junior Analyst

Job Purpose
As a Junior Finance Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting the Finance Business Partner for the UK. This role is focused on assisting with financial planning, reporting, and analysis, while developing your skills and understanding of how finance supports strategic business decisions. You will collaborate with colleagues across the finance team and business functions to ensure accurate reporting and valuable insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Support monthly reporting processes, including preparing variance analysis and commentary.
• Perform data analysis to identify trends, variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Assist in the preparation of budgets, forecasts and business cases.
• Build and maintain advanced Excel models for reporting, forecasting and scenario planning
• Work with business teams to provide clear, accurate and timely financial information.
• Support commission and bonus calculations under guidance from the Finance Business Partner.
• Contribute to process improvements in and automation opportunities in reporting and analysis.
• Support ad hoc reporting and financial requests from business leaders

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional qualification in ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent is desirable.
• 1–2 years of relevant experience in finance, analysis, accounting or business partnering in a similar role
• Advanced Excel skills are essential (pivot tables, lookups, macros, data modelling etc).
• Strong ability to analyse large volumes of financial data from ERP/finance systems
• Exposure to Power BI, SAP, NetSuite, OneStream, or similar tools is an advantage.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present financial insights clearly.
• Proactive, organised, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.

Why join YouGov?
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Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

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