Salary: £55,000 to £65,000 

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for providing accurate and timely business information to the Senior Business Partner, Head of FP&A and cost owners. The finance analyst should have a strong analytical mindset, excellent attention to detail, a high level of discipline and organisation, and the ability to identify key insights arising from the data.

Key Responsibilities

• Cost Reporting: Oversee payroll, overheads, and delivery team costs; analyse SAP-based actual spend; standardise data coding; consolidate payroll inputs; ensure accurate cost categorisation; identify impacts of commitments (POs, accruals, prepayments); coordinate corrections and maintain spend controls.
• Stakeholder Reporting: Present actual costs with clear explanations for anomalies; collaborate with cost owners to review and update forecasts, comparing to prior budgets/forecasts.
• R&D Projects: Report and forecast project costs, including capitalised development expenses, in partnership with R&D owners.
• Management Reporting: Prepare detailed reports by Growth Solution, highlighting key variances and areas of focus; forecast depreciation and software spend; support month-end processes, allocation postings, and performance packs.
• Group Reporting & Commission Payments: Input annual forecast data for insurance; calculate biannual commissions based on orders and cash receipts.
• Ad Hoc Tasks: Assist with various tasks as needed.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Financial qualification or part-qualification – CIMA, ACA, ACCA
• Financial analysis experience in a complex global organisation
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills including Power Query
• SAP/Tagetik experience an advantage
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including working through challenges collaboratively and conveying complex financial information

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.