FP&A Analyst

Our companies

Cresset is a software development and contract research organization that delivers solutions enabling companies to discover, design and optimize molecules. Cresset is also a development partner for Torx Software, a platform that enables better design decisions and tracking compound synthesis. For over 20 years we have helped organizations improve human health by providing solutions that enable them to develop better treatments for critical diseases. Our global customer-base includes pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemical, flavor and fragrance companies, and academics.

Exceptional talent

Cresset has seen significant organic growth and, with investment backing, we are on a rapid growth trajectory across all areas of the business to deliver not only outstanding solutions for our customers, but to recognize the outstanding talent who choose to advance their career with Cresset. Personal professional development is at the heart of our commitment to all employees – we take great pride in seeing colleagues progress their career within the company.

New product development driven by best-in-class infrastructure

New product development is crucial so that we deliver the drug discovery tools of the future. Alongside enhancing existing science and technology we have a strong greenfield project pipeline and encourage our highly experienced software developers, computational chemistry developers and talented colleagues to take ownership of these projects and drive them through the development process.

We commit to providing you with the tools to do your job to its fullest potential. We invest significantly in cutting-edge server and network infrastructure to ensure our colleagues have access to best-in-class technology to deliver the reliable solutions our customers depend on us for.

Summary of position

Responsible for building and maintaining models for budget and forecast and transforming data from a variety of systems to provide analysis, trends, and insight, to support business strategic direction.

You will be comfortable dealing with a wide range of people and levels in the business. You will also be comfortable with a changing business, as Cresset is looking to expand and grow the regions and areas it operates in, as well as the systems we use.

Key Responsibilities

• Aggregate financial and operational data from core source systems, cleansing it, and preparing it for reporting processes
• Measuring critical financial metrics at the company-wide level as well as the department-level to drive more strategic analysis
• Maintain the budget and forecasts and run budget variance analysis as the books close to regularly report on performance to plan
• Preparing data for ad hoc analysis requests from senior leadership or executives
• Preparing reporting for the monthly management pack for review by the CFO

Requirements

Essential

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years professional experience
• Experience in FP&A reporting
• Strong Excel skills
• A Suitable qualification for the role (CIMA qualified or part-qualified, MBA or relevant experience)

Desirable

• Experience of reporting for software or SAAS business
  
• Experience of Power BI ideally, or similar packages (such as Tableau)

Location

• Our office is based in Litlington, Cambridgeshire, UK
• 2 to 3 days onsite per week

Benefits

• Hybrid working opportunities
• Pension scheme
• Private health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (full time employee)
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Lifestyle rewards
• Social activities
• Free car parking and covered cycle storage
• Cycle to work scheme