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Finance Analyst

QA Higher Education, Full-time & Permanent Opportunity

Birmingham Based (Hybrid, 1-2 Days On-Site)

Are you a commercially minded finance professional with strong analytical skills and a passion for turning data into insights? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Join our vibrant & fast paced Finance team at QA Higher Education as a Senior Finance Analyst and help drive performance through insight, forecasting, and business partnering.

About our role: As Senior Finance Analyst, you’ll support the Commercial Finance Managers and Head of FP&A in providing high-quality financial analysis, reporting, and planning across the business. Working closely with the operations and management accounts teams, you’ll play a key role in delivering timely insights, identifying trends, and supporting strategic decision-making.

Here’s some of what’s involved: (click through to see the full JD)

Support the development of forecasts, budgets, and long-range planning models.

Maintain and enhance financial models used for reporting and strategic initiatives.

Analyse performance against forecasts/budgets and identify key drivers of variances.

Collaborate with Management Accounts and operational teams to understand trends.

Provide actionable commercial insight to support business decisions.

Own and improve FP&A datasets and monthly KPI reporting.

Identify and deliver improvements to reporting tools, processes, and systems.

Bring your experience:

Qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant.

Previous experience in financial planning, business partnering or commercial finance.

Skilled in analysing large datasets and working with imperfect data.

Advanced Excel skills (modelling, pivot tables, etc.).

Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.

Strong attention to detail and a proactive, problem-solving approach.

Effective communicator, confident working with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and isn’t afraid to get hands-on.

Self-motivated, organised, and resilient—with a sense of humour!

A little more about QA:

Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA is to make that possible.

We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations.

At QA, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The successful candidate will undertake a Basic DBS check.

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• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Job function
  
  Finance, Accounting/Auditing, and Analyst
• Industries Higher Education, Accounting, and Financial Services

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