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Financial Analyst
The FA
The Football Association is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
Job Posted- 23 Sep 2025
Status- Full Time
Location- England
Closing date- 26 Sep 2025
We're looking for a proactive and collaborative Financial Analyst to join our team and play a pivotal role in driving informed decision-making across the business. In this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, delivering timely internal reports, and supporting strategic initiatives through budgeting, forecasting, and insightful ad hoc analysis. You'll serve as a key liaison between finance and other business functions, helping to manage budgets, build business cases, and improve processes to deliver sharper insights.
What will you be doing?
- To develop and maintain strong working relationships with budget holders and senior management and be seen as the first line of support to the business on financial matters.
- Business Partnering with key business functions to drive commercial benefit.
- To interpret and analyse financial and non-financial information, alongside KPIs as part of management reporting.
- Continuous improvement of financial controls & reporting.
- To work with the business to produce robust financial forecasts and annual budgets that support the strategic requirement in line with the Group timetable. Support in the production of divisional reporting, the annual budgets and quarterly reforecasting. Actual reporting to include journal calculation and posting.
- Provide commercially orientated financial support to budget holders, department heads, including support to help them deliver on financial objectives.
- To support the month-end process for divisional areas to ensure a clear and accurate financial position is reported and preparation of monthly management accounts.
- Complete balance sheet reconciliations.
- Support the Accounts Payable team in the end-to-end payment approval process.
- To provide ad hoc reporting and analysis to the business to assist with decision making.
- To administer the Management Accounting Systems.
- Provide financial information to support divisions with their financial plans and decision making.
- Executes additional tasks as required to meet the FA's changing priorities.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure that the highest standards of health, safety, and well-being can be maintained.
- As part of the FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.
What are we looking for?
Essential for the role:
Knowledge
- Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA).
- Experience of cost centre accounting, business partnering, financial planning and commercial support
- Strong Microsoft excel skills
- A collaborative team player, adept in working within a team and building relationships across different teams/divisions
- Proactive in looking for ways of improving/optimising financial processes – in terms of efficiency and quality of output
- Good communication skills and relationship management
Experience
- Leading on preparation on Month end managing accounting (as per Key Accountabilities)
- Working with multiple stakeholders across the business (across financial and non-financial matters). Experience in managing external finance stakeholders.
Technical Skills
- Extensive experience of Excel (and wider Microsoft Office)
- High level of numeracy
- Ability to create presentations and present to a wide range of key stakeholders
- A collaborative team player, adept in working within a team and building relationships across different teams/divisions
- Proactive in looking for ways of improving/optimising financial processes – in terms of efficiency and quality of output
- Good communication skills
Beneficial to have:
Technical Skills
- Previous experience of Proactis (Purchase Order Software), Great Plains (Accounting Software), Anaplan and Smartsheet.
What's in it for you?
We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, to achieve this we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.
We pride ourselves in offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:
- Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season, encouraging you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and well-being.
- Free, nutritious lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
- Free private medical cover.
- A contributory pension scheme.
- An additional 'Thank You' days leave, volunteering days as well as 25 days annual leave (based on a full-time, permanent contract.)
- A hybrid working model which offers greater flexibility.
How to Apply
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