Finance Analyst
Coventry / Hybrid
£40,000 per annum plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme
About the Role
As a Finance Analyst, you will provide critical analytical support across our Coventry manufacturing operations, partnering with our on-site businesses to maintain robust data controls and deliver day-to-day financial insight. Reporting directly to the Financial Controller, you will play a key role in analysing the statement of financial position, supporting cash flow forecasts, and driving commercial performance across our diverse manufacturing portfolio. You will also benefit from comprehensive study support to empower your professional qualifications and career progression, alongside on-site perks including free car parking and a 1:00pm finish every Friday.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
- Deliver core portfolio and pricing analysis, interrogating product costings, monitoring sales margins, and identifying commercial opportunities for revised pricing
- Partner with supply chain and operations to analyse inventory holdings, manage obsolete stock reviews, and maintain standard costs and inventory valuations within the ERP system
- Manage working capital and cash flows, producing monthly cashflow forecasts, supporting invoice discounting requirements, and collaborating with group treasury.
- Support ledger health and control, collaborating closely with AP and AR to maintain up-to-date ledgers and proactively chase debtors to minimise aged debt.
- Produce accurate period-end reporting, completing timely monthly variance analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, and internal and external reporting packs.
- Maintain financial governance, overseeing site fixed asset registers, managing intercompany recharges, and driving continuous improvement and cost-saving initiatives across site operations.
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!
- Part-qualified chartered accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or qualified through experience.
- Experience in a finance analyst, management accounting, or cost accounting role within a manufacturing environment.
- Good experience with manufacturing ERP systems (IFS desirable but not essential) and advanced Excel skills for data manipulation and modeling.
- Working knowledge of VAT, Corporation Tax, RDEC, UK GAAP, lean manufacturing principles, and MRP (product costing knowledge desirable).
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills with pragmatic business acumen.
- Proven ability to manage deadlines, work under pressure, prioritize value-adding activities, and challenge the status quo.
About Unipart
We are a supply chain performance improvement partner. We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers’ supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer. Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon. Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work. Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit. We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances. We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation. Whether it’s your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you ‘you’ - it is your talent and potential that we value most. Adjustments for you: We want you to perform at your best. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We are here to support you.