Finance Analyst in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

£40,000 - £47,000 (depending on experience)

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

16 Jul 2026

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Role Overview

This is a hands-on role with broad exposure across financial reporting and operations, where you will take ownership of key elements of the month-end close. Day to day, you’ll be preparing journals, reviewing financial performance, and working with stakeholders across the business to ensure costs are accurately recorded and understood.

Alongside core reporting, you’ll play a key role in strengthening financial controls, owning balance sheet reconciliations, and identifying opportunities to improve processes and data quality. The role also offers exposure to wider finance activities, including supporting financial statements, contributing to audits and regulatory reporting, and getting involved in ongoing projects to enhance systems and ways of working. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to step beyond transactional finance, gain broader experience, and make a tangible impact within a changing and evolving finance function.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

Part qualified and actively studying towards a recognised professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
Experience working in a finance environment, with exposure to month-end processes
Experience of preparing journals, accruals and prepayments, and working with general ledger data
Strong numerical and analytical skills, with good attention to detail
Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and meet deadlines
Advanced Excel skills and ability to handle financial data effectively
Good communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

The Finance and Strategic Sourcing (FSS) Directorate, led by the Chief Financial Officer and their leadership team, is made up of three distinct teams:

Finance
Commercial Management
Procurement

Within the Finance team there are multiple disciplines including the core financial control activities for which this role would be responsible. It is an exciting time to join the Finance function as the CFO is looking to make a significant amount of change and enhancement in each of the areas but also looking for synergies and alignment across the Directorate.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme. We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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