British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)

Financial Analyst - 36 hours

The closing date is 24 July 2025

Job summary

Are you a part-qualified or qualified accountant with a flair for finance business partnering and a passion for making a difference in the not-for-profit sector?

BPAS are looking for a Financial Analyst to join our Finance team. This is a permanent, hybrid role working 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Youll work primarily from home, with travel to our Head Office once a week.

About the role

As a Financial Analyst, youll act as a finance business partner, supporting non-finance managers to understand & manage their budgets. Your responsibilities include project monitoring, contract profitability, standard costing,& long-term financial planning.

Youll work closely with operational and senior leaders, providing insightful analysis, building trusted relationships, and offering challenge where needed.Your financial expertise will help shape decisions and drive performance.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the long-term sustainability of BPAS,work on a variety of financial projects,& grow your skills in business partnering, financial modelling,& analysis.

About you

Youll be a part-qualified or qualified accountant with a proactive, collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels.

Advanced Excel skills are essential, and experience with Power BI or financial modelling is an advantage. Whatever your background non-profit, public, or commercial your ability to influence and add value will set you apart.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide business partner support to other non-finance teams as necessary to understand and control their budgets and achieve their financial KPIs
  • Analyse variances each month and investigate with accounts team as necessary, challenging and escalating where issues are uncovered
  • Provide insightful commentary as necessary working with Operational managers, Support managers and the finance team, identifying and explaining underlying trends
  • Analyse monthly activity and income activity by contract, service, and location to understand price and volume variances
  • Manage the tracking of business cases from authorisation to implementation of projects
  • Liaise with business case managers so they are able to maintain good financial control of project budgets, in particular for new premises and for major IT projects
  • Support budget and forecast coordination by liaising with cost centre managers, collating information for and from budget meetings and helping to produce variance analysis for review papers
  • Assist the development of reports for long term financial planning and scenario analysis for support decision making and risk assessment
  • Work with staff in other head office teams to develop financial reporting using information from different data sources

About us

British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK's largest independent women's reproductive healthcare charity. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS across the country providing abortion, contraception, STI testing & treatment. We specialise in evidence-based, not-for-profit care reproductive healthcare.

Working with us:

Alongside a supportive and friendly working environment, BPAS has generous benefits:

  • Life assurance cover at 3 times salary
  • 34 days annual leave per year
  • A defined contribution pension scheme.
  • You will have access to our employee benefits programme through BHSF which includes special health & wellbeing services & lifestyle offers for you & your family. This includes various salary sacrifice schemes, counselling services & free private GP appointments.

BPAS is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children & young people through a safer recruitment framework. This includes a thorough selection process & a number of pre-employment checks.

Details

Date posted

10 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£43,768 to £47,775 a year - Depending on skills & experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Home or remote working

Reference number

B0201-HO-FIN-FA-36-1

Job locations

Orion House

Athena Drive

Warwick

CV34 6RQ


Job description

Job responsibilities

A full job description is available for you to download and review along with our T&Cs and Salary information. This can be found on the right hand side of the advert under supporting information.

Further Information

We may close this advert early if we receive a high number of applications that reflect the skills and experience required for the role. We aim to keep it open long enough to ensure a diverse and representative applicant pool, so early applications are strongly encouraged.

If you have any questions about the role, the process, or require adjustments to support your application, please don't hesitate to get in touch were happy to help.

Location: Hybrid working with the expectation of travel to our Head Office once per week. Potential to have to travel more for training in the first few weeks.

Head Office: Tachbrook Park, Athena Drive, Leamington Spa, CV34 6RQ

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Hours of Work:

  • Monday to Thursday | 09:00 - 17:00
  • Friday | 09:00 - 15:30

Salary: £43,768 to £47,775 per annum - Depending on skills and experience

Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!

The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.

If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.

References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 5 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A full job description is available for you to download and review along with our T&Cs and Salary information. This can be found on the right hand side of the advert under supporting information.

Further Information

We may close this advert early if we receive a high number of applications that reflect the skills and experience required for the role. We aim to keep it open long enough to ensure a diverse and representative applicant pool, so early applications are strongly encouraged.

If you have any questions about the role, the process, or require adjustments to support your application, please don't hesitate to get in touch were happy to help.

Location: Hybrid working with the expectation of travel to our Head Office once per week. Potential to have to travel more for training in the first few weeks.

Head Office: Tachbrook Park, Athena Drive, Leamington Spa, CV34 6RQ

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Hours of Work:

  • Monday to Thursday | 09:00 - 17:00
  • Friday | 09:00 - 15:30

Salary: £43,768 to £47,775 per annum - Depending on skills and experience

Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!

The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.

If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.

References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 5 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working within finance departments and with non finance staff
  • Experience of working with different finance and data systems

Desirable

  • Experience of working within the not-for-profit sector

General

Essential

  • Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
  • Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and the nature of the relationship.
  • This is a hybrid role working from home and travelling to our Head Office in Leamington Spa once a week. Can you commit to this?
  • Are you aware this role is for 36 hours per week over Monday to Friday?

Desirable

  • Please list any further information or statements if you wish to support your application.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Part Qualified or Fully accountant - preferably with CIMA (please specify)

Desirable

  • Further education in STEM subject

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Understanding of financial accounting principles
  • Use of KPI metrics to drive an organisations performance
  • Good Excel skills (e.g. pivots, SUMIFs etc.) including experience of modelling
  • Good communicator with ability to communicate at all levels of an organisation about numbers and to present figures visually

Desirable

  • Power BI experience
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working within finance departments and with non finance staff
  • Experience of working with different finance and data systems

Desirable

  • Experience of working within the not-for-profit sector

General

Essential

  • Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
  • Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and the nature of the relationship.
  • This is a hybrid role working from home and travelling to our Head Office in Leamington Spa once a week. Can you commit to this?
  • Are you aware this role is for 36 hours per week over Monday to Friday?

Desirable

  • Please list any further information or statements if you wish to support your application.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Part Qualified or Fully accountant - preferably with CIMA (please specify)

Desirable

  • Further education in STEM subject

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Understanding of financial accounting principles
  • Use of KPI metrics to drive an organisations performance
  • Good Excel skills (e.g. pivots, SUMIFs etc.) including experience of modelling
  • Good communicator with ability to communicate at all levels of an organisation about numbers and to present figures visually

Desirable

  • Power BI experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)

Address

Orion House

Athena Drive

Warwick

CV34 6RQ


Employer's website

https://www.bpas.org (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)

Address

Orion House

Athena Drive

Warwick

CV34 6RQ


Employer's website

https://www.bpas.org (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

The Recruitment Team

recruitment@bpas.org

Details

Date posted

10 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£43,768 to £47,775 a year - Depending on skills & experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Home or remote working

Reference number

B0201-HO-FIN-FA-36-1

Job locations

Orion House

Athena Drive

Warwick

CV34 6RQ


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