FP&A Analyst

Location: Bournemouth
Hours: Full-time 37 hours | Permanent

Draken believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.

About the Role

We are seeking an FP&A Analyst to join our Finance team and provide high-quality planning, analysis and insight to support informed decision-making across the business. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career finance professional looking to build broad commercial finance and FP&A experience within a dynamic aviation environment.

Working closely with Finance Business Partners and senior finance colleagues, you will support the preparation of the group consolidated annual budget, reforecasts, five-year plans and monthly reporting. You will consolidate submissions from across Finance, prepare the budget balance sheet and cash flow, and turn financial information into clear commentary and meaningful insight for the UK Leadership Team and shareholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Attend budget, contract and overhead review meetings with Finance Business Partners and the UK Leadership Team, helping to understand and challenge assumptions and promote a consistent approach across departments.
• Consolidate contract and overhead budget P&L submissions from the wider Finance team, including all required consolidation adjustments.
• Prepare the group consolidated budget balance sheet and cash flow, incorporating items such as capital expenditure, tax and interest cash outflows.
• Provide insight and analysis on year-on-year budget movements and support annual budget and five-year plan presentations.
• Attend month-end and programme review meetings to build a strong understanding of contract performance.
• Prepare clear monthly commentary covering in-month and year-to-date performance, together with variances against budget.
• Support the preparation of reforecasts against original budget assumptions, gathering input from Finance and the UK Leadership Team.
• Support the VP Finance with materials for monthly senior leadership and quarterly Board meetings.
• Provide support to the Group Accounting Manager with monthly consolidated management accounts and the annual audit, as required.

About You

We’re looking for an analytical and commercially minded finance professional who is newly qualified or working towards a recognised accounting qualification and is keen to develop their career in FP&A.

You will have:

• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, management reporting or financial planning activities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial information and explain key movements clearly.
• A good understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow reporting.
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to consolidating financial data.
• Confident communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to work collaboratively across Finance and the wider business.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage priorities and meet reporting deadlines.
• A proactive, curious and continuous-improvement mindset.

Desirable Qualifications

• Newly qualified or working towards a recognised professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA or ACA.
• Experience within aviation, defence, engineering or another complex, project-based environment.
• Experience supporting consolidated reporting across multiple contracts, programmes or business areas.

What You’ll Bring

• Commercial awareness and a genuine interest in business performance.
• The ability to turn complex financial data into clear, useful insight.
• A collaborative approach and confidence working with stakeholders at different levels.
• Accuracy, integrity and sound judgement.
• A willingness to learn, challenge assumptions and contribute ideas.

Our employee values

Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspectives and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.

At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken team is accountable for ensuring that we are all treated fairly and with respect.

We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation and, as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and Service spouses and partners who meet the criteria in our job specifications.

In line with our Disability Confident commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process. Please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.