Senior Financial Analyst

Full Job Description

Commercial Senior Financial Analyst

Remote role (travel as per business demand)

A quick look at the role

Join Biffa’s Commercial Collections Division as a Commercial Senior Financial Analyst and play a key role in shaping profitable growth across our Corporate and Major New Business channels. Working closely with senior sales and operational stakeholders, you’ll use your commercial finance expertise to provide insight, challenge decisions and lead the financial modelling of new business opportunities. This is a high-impact business partnering role for someone who enjoys turning financial analysis into clear commercial decisions and wants to make a real difference to business performance.

Your core responsibilities

• Partner with Corporate and Major New Business Sales teams to provide commercial finance insight, challenge and advice throughout the sales and tender process, supporting high-quality, profitable decision-making.
• Provide insightful financial reporting and performance analysis, including month-end reporting, budgeting and forecasting, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities and translating financial data into actionable insight.
• Analyse sales and commercial performance, including win/loss trends and drivers, to identify opportunities to improve conversion, profitability and overall business performance.
• Lead the calculation and governance of sales incentive schemes, ensuring accurate, timely and well-controlled bonus reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement and effective business partnering, strengthening relationships across Finance, Sales and Operations while identifying opportunities to improve processes, automation and use of data and systems such as Power BI, SharePoint and Excel.

Our essential requirements

• Commercial finance experience at least 2 years’ experience in a commercial finance, commercial accounting or financial analysis role, ideally within a sales, tendering or new business environment.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to assess commercial opportunities, understand profitability and use financial insight to support and influence business decisions.
• Qualified accountant preferred ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualification is desirable but not essential, alongside solid experience of month-end reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Advanced Excel and Power BI skills, with a genuine interest in using data, automation and technology to improve commercial finance processes and ways of working.
• Strong commercial and stakeholder skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions, influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance audiences.
• Highly organised and proactive, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, alongside a full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel to Biffa sites, including occasional overnight stays.

Biffa – we’re changing the way people think about waste

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

We believe different ideas, perspective and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment which is why you’ll find us championing diversity and equality at every turn.

Closing Date - Monday 12th October 2026

Qualifications And Requirements

Mid-Senior level

Mid-Senior level

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