Commercial Finance Analyst

Melbourn Science Park, Cambridge | Graduate and early-career applicants welcome | Accountancy qualification support

About the role:

Join our Group FP&A team as the finance partner to our Service & Consumables business, a growing, recurring-revenue part of SPT Labtech. You’ll work day to day with the service commercial and operations teams, and see your analysis shape real commercial decisions. You will also play a key part in wider FP&A activity, including service and consumables forecasting, monthly management reporting and variance analysis. The role is based at our Cambridge site (Melbourn Science Park).

This role suits a numerate graduate looking for a hands-on start in finance, or someone early in their career who may already be part-qualified or coming from a commercial or data role. You’ll get full training, support towards ACCA, CIMA or ACA, and real ownership from early on.

About us:

Based in Melbourn, near Cambridge, UK, SPT Labtech makes products that transform the way scientists work. For nearly two decades, our expert scientists, engineers and business innovators have provided scientists with world-leading, innovative solutions for liquid handling, sample preparation, and sample management that help accelerate research and make a real difference to human health. We work collaboratively with our customers, building trusted relationships that enable us to deliver exceptional, personalised experiences designed for real-world challenges in the lab. 

Want to be part of a team that’s making a difference to human health? 

What you’ll do:

Service & Consumables

• Act as the finance partner to the service commercial and operations teams, providing insight into performance, pricing and margin
• Weekly reporting of service order intake, revenue and KPIs
• Contributing to the weekly revenue and order intake meetings, providing analysis and insight on performance and the outlook
• Own weekly order intake, revenue and KPI reporting, and bring the analysis and outlook to the weekly revenue meetings
• Reporting on labour utilisation across the service team, highlighting trends and improvement opportunities
• Owning the installed base database and monthly installed base reporting
• Tracking and reporting service contract attach rates, renewals and warranty conversion
• Track the metrics that drive recurring revenue: installed base, contract attach rates, renewals, warranty conversion and service team utilisation
• Month end support to the UK Finance team for service revenue

Forecasting

• Preparing the monthly service and consumables forecasts, linking them to the installed base, contract renewals and consumables usage trends
• Resource capacity planning for the service team, aligning headcount and skills with forecast demand from the installed base
• Supporting the annual budget and longer-term strategic planning process

Monthly reporting and variance analysis

• Explain performance against budget, forecast and prior year in the monthly management pack, and present the key drivers to senior management

Systems and continuous improvement

• Keep ERP and Salesforce data aligned, and improve and automate reporting as the business grows

Skills & Attributes

Essential:

• A good degree in any discipline with a strong numerical or analytical element, or early experience in a finance, commercial or data role
• Keen to work towards an accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the confidence to work with non-finance colleagues
• Strong Microsoft Excel and data analysis skills
• Able to turn numbers into a clear story in PowerPoint
• An analytical mindset, strong attention to detail and curiosity about what drives the numbers

Nice to have:

• An internship, placement year or early experience in finance, commercial or data analysis
• Part-qualified, or already studying towards ACCA, CIMA or ACA
• Exposure to service, subscription or other recurring revenue businesses
• Data Visualisation and Business Intelligence (Power BI or Tableau) creating insightful financial dashboards and reports
• Experience using ERP and CRM systems

What we offer:

• Support through your ACCA, CIMA or ACA qualification, including study time and funding
• Structured on-the-job training and mentoring from experienced FP&A colleagues
• A clear path to develop your career within Group FP&A
• Broad exposure to a growing, international business across commercial, operations and finance

We embrace diversity and inclusivity, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, or family status. We prioritise supporting our employees' diverse needs as we strive for excellence together.