Senior Financial Performance Analyst

About Us

This is a new role within our Finance Department, required to support the continued growth of all our trading businesses and to enable them to achieve their strategic ambitions. The role, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, will offer the successful candidate an opportunity to use their skills and experience as an experienced finance professional to contribute to a broad range of projects and growth initiatives across multiple businesses.

It is a great opportunity for a candidate who is interested in learning the commercial operating model of a fast‑growth professional services business and applying their financial and analytical expertise in an interesting, project‑based environment.

This role will support our group of businesses across the UK. It will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and involve close collaboration with the Group Financial Controller and the wider Finance Team to support routine finance processes. The candidate may also be required to work on a project basis with other senior personnel within the 3173 Group. Working in a fast‑paced environment with multiple priorities and stakeholders, this role will play a key part in delivering our growth strategy for the 3173 Group.

• Leading the preparation of both budgets and longer‑term strategic financial plans across the 3173 Group, including gathering source data, developing financial models and presenting budgets to senior leadership and investors.
• Leading the preparation of rolling profit and cash‑flow forecasts across the Group, including developing financial models and presenting forecasts to senior leadership and investors.
• Leading the preparation of financial investment appraisals for significant strategic investments across the Group.
• Supporting the wider Finance Team in providing variance analysis and other routine financial reporting, including detailed analysis of group payroll expenditure.
• Supporting the preparation of financial performance and profitability monitoring, including contract profitability and staff utilisation metrics.
• Collaborating with the wider Finance Team to continually develop and innovate the financial reporting systems used across the Group.
• Supporting the Group Financial Controller, CFO and other Senior Management as required.
• Managing the Group recruitment process from a budgetary perspective, providing oversight and analysis of planned recruitment exercises.

You will be a qualified accountant with a minimum of three years post‑qualification experience gained within a busy commercial finance environment, and you will be looking for the opportunity to develop your commercial knowledge and financial analysis skills within 3173, a high‑growth provider of financial services to the pensions industry. As the Senior Financial Performance Analyst, you will provide financial leadership and contribute proactively to the growth and development of 3173.

You will have significant practical experience in creating financial models to support budgets, rolling forecasts and longer‑term strategic financial plans. You will be a confident and articulate communicator with the ability to work with senior leaders and use your influencing skills to achieve the best outcomes for the business. You will be highly competent in the use of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint;

competence in specialist financial planning tools or data analysis software, such as Power BI, is desirable. You will thrive in a collaborative, fast‑moving, team‑based environment and will be able to prioritise competing demands. You will support and contribute to the development of the wider Finance Team. You will be diligent, driven with a high level of attention to detail and able to highlight and escalated issues or risks to senior leadership.

You will manage multiple tasks in a pressured, deadline‑driven environment and may be required to travel to different 3173 Group locations, requiring flexibility with working hours.

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA-qualified accountant with a minimum of three years post‑qualification experience within a commercial finance…