Title:  Finance Analyst - Strategic Control

Finance Analyst – Strategic Control

Function: Finance
Location: Edinburgh City Centre based - hybrid with a mix of office & home working

Salary: £35,000 - £42,000 base depending on experience, plus full benefits listed below.
Contract: Permanent  

Closing Date: 4th April 2025. Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications.

As the nation’s leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind a host of brilliant brands, we’re looking for equally brilliant people to help us on our journey to building a better future.

Are you looking for your next chapter at HEINEKEN UK? You already know that we make great beers and ciders, well we also offer exciting and dynamic careers! Right now, we’re looking for a Finance Analyst to join our Strategic Planning team!

About the Role
This role will support the agenda of the wider Strategic Control team, by facilitating the month end process, improving our reporting landscape, contributing to the annual planning cycle, enabling our Support Functions Control team and supporting our extensive project portfolio. You will be exposed to a great variety of activities across the team, no day will ever be the same!

This is a critical role over month end close. Specific responsibilities include:

• Supporting the month-end close process, working closely with our shared services centre in Poland to ensure accuracy and completeness. You'll organise month-end calls with Finance Controllers to validate results and uncover key performance drivers.
• Supporting our Support Functions Control team with the month end reporting.
• Reviewing the Monthly Management Review and preparing the Business update.
• Continuous improvement of our processes and reports including rationalisation of our reporting landscape.
• Supporting the Annual Planning cycle.
• Support of Activity Based Costing and competitor profit pool analysis, presentation and Power BI report development.
• Support the reporting and monitoring of our cost saving initiatives, including the management of relevant communications.

About you
We’re looking for a commercially aware Finance graduate or part-Qualified Accountant with a track record of creating value in a collaborative way with your business partners and stakeholders.

We’re looking for someone that can take initiative to investigate and solve complex issues, if solving complex problems and uncovering insights excites you, this role will keep you engaged and challenged every day!

This role suits someone analytically minded, able to maintain a robust control environment within a fast-moving area.

Just as important as the technical side, we need a people person! You’ll be engaging with a range of stakeholders both within finance and across the wider business, so having a solid track record of stakeholder management is preferable.

If you:

• Can build solid relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Have a proactive, can-do attitude with a sharp commercial mindset.
• Are eager to learn more about Strategic Control and its impact on the business.

This could be the role for you!

When applying, we’d love for you to tell us what makes you the right fit for this role. What excites you about this opportunity, and how will it help shape your future career?

Our Benefits
As part of the team, along with your salary, you’ll also receive;

• Discretionary Annual bonus
• Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double matched pension (up to 10%)
• 35 days holiday
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers! (low and no alcohol options available)
• Comprehensive Opportunities to develop.

You’ll also get the opportunity to get involved with one of our colleague networks where groups of colleagues from all over the business work together to ensure we’re always working towards being a diverse and inclusive company.

Our ways of working
This role is office based, we currently operate a hybrid working framework which allows us to capture the benefits of both working in the office and at home.  For full-time roles, we work a minimum of 3 days in the office – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with Monday and Friday being our work-from-home days.

In May we’ll be moving to a fantastic new office at 6 St Andrew Square – right in the heart of the city centre.

The office is in a great location with excellent public transport links so it’s really easy to get to whether you’re travelling by train, bus or tram!

With a brilliant selection of restaurants, bars, shops and our very own Star Pubs on our doorstep, you’ll be spoilt for choice for extracurricular activities.  And if you fancy catch up after hours with your colleagues, our in-house bar with fantastic views of Edinburgh Castle might just be the spot for you!

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our new home

The application
If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at recruitment@heineken.co.uk

Who we are
We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.

It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.

When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.

If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.

There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.