Finance Analyst

Job description

Bring your energy to Aggreko as a Financial Analyst based at our Lomondgate site in Dumbarton. As a Financial Analyst, you will play a key role sitting within the Commercial division. You will partner closely with the Senior FP&A Manager and Finance Business Partners to deliver high-quality financial analysis, performance insights, and planning support, with a primary focus on our UK Manufacturing division. This role offers the opportunity to make a tangible difference by ensuring robust financial operations that support our global energy solutions. Power without pause. Heating, cooling and oil-free air without end. We keep our customers' worlds on. From world-class events that last a few weeks to mining operations and remote communities who rely on us for decades. What you'll do as a Financial Analyst: Lead financial planning cycles, including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and 5-year strategic planning, ensuring robust assumptions and accurate product pricing. Manage the smooth month-end close process, prepare comprehensive management reports, and deliver insightful variance analysis and commentary for key financial metrics. Provide detailed analysis of manufacturing costs, performance, and key operational KPIs, identifying risks, opportunities, and trends for stakeholders. Actively support working capital initiatives and provide thorough financial evaluation, monitoring, and tracking of capital expenditure proposals and investments. Ensure a strong controls environment, assist with internal and external audit queries, and support tax and compliance submissions like VAT returns. Drive process and data improvement initiatives, developing financial models, reports, and dashboards to enhance efficiency and automation within FP&A. You are: A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). Possessing proven experience in FP&A, management accounting, commercial finance or operational finance. Equipped with strong financial modelling and analytical skills, and a strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis. An excellent communicator with the ability to explain complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders. Highly proficient in Excel, with experience in Power BI being desirable. Able to analyse complex financial and operational data to identify key drivers and call-outs. Demonstrating strong attention to detail without losing sight of the wider business context. Experience working with manufacturing, operations or cost-based environments would be advantageous. Here's what you'll get: A competitive salary and benefits package (including but not limited to pension plan, bonus scheme and Life Assurance). Generous holiday entitlement, with the option to buy or sell additional days. Discounts and perks. Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps promote and support a healthy lifestyle. The opportunity to shape and enhance the financial environment within a global business operating across multiple countries and jurisdictions. Our people are can-do, positive, resilient and persistent. If that feels like you, apply now and build your career with the people bringing energy to the world. #LI-MJ1 Equal employment opportunity We welcome people from different backgrounds and cultures, and respect people’s unique skills, attitudes and experiences. We encourage everyone to be themselves at work because we know that’s how we do our best, for each other, for our customers, for the communities where we work, and for our careers. We are an equal opportunity employer. If you apply for a role at Aggreko, we will consider your application based on your qualifications and experience, and not on your race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.