Finance Analyst -Fixed Term Contract

Finance Analyst – Fixed-Term Contract until February 2027

Location: Warwick

Salary: Competitive

At Volvo Bus, we are not just about buses; we're about innovation, sustainability, and creating a better future for communities around the globe.

We’re looking for a Finance Analyst to join us on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You’ll support financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, providing analysis that helps guide our business decisions.

Working closely with the Commercial teams, you’ll deliver financial insights through data analysis, modelling, and clear reporting to support strategic planning.

What Volvo Bus Can Offer You

• Pension scheme: 7% Matched pension, including death in service cover.
• Medical Insurance: Medical insurance coverage is provided by Bupa.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Take advantage of our wellness, mindfulness, and counselling services to support your overall well-being.
• Generous holiday allowance: Start with 25 days and watch it grow to 30 days with length of service, plus bank holidays.
• Discounts on various purchases: Enjoy savings on shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, holidays, and travel.
• Fitness perks: Access MyGymDiscounts and MyActiveDiscounts.
  
  

Your New Colleagues

Joining Volvo Bus means becoming part of a close-knit team. You'll work closely with our Business Control Director, alongside a team of passionate Business Controllers, collaborating closely to drive success and foster innovation. Here, you'll find support, mentorship, and a shared commitment

Who are you?

• A background in reporting, analysis, budgeting, and forecasting
• You are a commercially aware individual
• Proficient in data interrogation, analysis, and presentation skills
• Possess a continuous improvement mindset, always seeking ways to enhance processes
• A team player with exceptional communication skills, capable of engaging with individuals at all organisational levels
• Target-oriented and adept at working under pressure to meet deadlines
• Display a flexible and proactive attitude, demonstrating respect for confidentiality and the ability to challenge when appropriate
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Experience with data interrogation and presentation tools such as Business Objects, Power BI, and Qlik is advantageous
• Experience with SAP is advantageous
  
  

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the development of business planning processes to ensure alignment with Company objectives, profit targets, and key performance ratios
• Assist in preparing and analysing business area plans while monitoring progress against targets
• Analyse and compile business performance information for the UK and VBC, adhering to commercial and corporate requirements
• Contribute to the monitoring and control of all aspects of Operating Capital
• Support month-end financial close activities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting
• Participate in the Budget and forecasting process for Volvo Bus UK as needed
• Aid in the development of systems to facilitate business performance measurement
• Support internal audits to maintain procedural compliance
• Provide input and assistance on projects as required
  
  

Join Us Today!

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Who We Are And What We Believe In

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

At Volvo Buses you join one of the world’s leading providers of sustainable people transport solutions. What we do affects millions of people around the world: passengers, drivers, customers; in fact, entire cities and countries. This job gives you the opportunity to work with the future of people transportation and infrastructure. We have a strong culture of working together to help each other, sharing knowledge and experience. Together, we shape the world we want to live in.