Assistant Financial Reporting Analyst Harrow / hybrid, UK Competitive salary - (posted Apr 30 2026)
Company: Ipsos Advertisers Ref: MrWeb/8128MrWeb Ref: 162929
Job Spec: Are you a detail focused finance professional ready to grow your consolidation and group reporting skills in a global company? Do you enjoy turning complex numbers into clear insights, collaborating with business partners, and using Power BI, automation and AI to make reporting faster and smarter? We want to hear from you!
About the role:
Join Ipsos' Consolidation & Reporting team as an Assistant Reporting Analyst and help drive timely, accurate consolidated reporting to our Paris head office. You'll play a core part in the month end cycle - preparing weekly and monthly reports, inputting financials into our consolidation software, and producing variance analysis that explains performance drivers to senior stakeholders. You'll monitor financial KPIs, support compliance across business units, and provide financial training and ad hoc analytical support to non finance colleagues. This is a hands on role in a fast paced, collaborative environment with clear opportunities to improve and automate processes using Power BI, advanced Excel and AI tools. Expect close working relationships with Finance Business Partners and senior leadership, exposure to group reporting practices across markets, and a supportive culture committed to continuous improvement and learning.
About you:
- Basic finance/reporting experience with strong numerical and analytical capability
- Expert Excel user (lookups, pivot tables, basic modelling) and comfortable building clear finance packs
- Proficient in Power BI or similar reporting tools; keen to automate and streamline reporting
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; able to explain financials to non finance audiences
- Resilient, curious, and collaborative - thrives under deadlines in a busy team environment.
Essential skills:
- Part qualified or qualified (CIMA/ACCA).
- Experience in finance.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Expert Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, basic modelling).
- Good analytical and problem solving skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Stakeholder management - builds collaborative relationships and can influence outcomes.
- Comfortable working to deadlines in a busy team environment.
- Good communication and presentation skills (PowerPoint/finance packs).
Desirable skills:
- Experience with reporting tools (Power BI) and with automating reporting processes.
- Familiarity with ERP systems used for project accounting (SAP, Oracle etc).
- Advanced modelling skills (scenario analysis, sensitivity testing) .
- Training or coaching experience for non finance audiences.
- Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day tasks.
Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.
We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.
Ready to have an impact? Apply now!
About Us
Ipsos is one of the world's largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!
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