Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst (18-Month Fixed Term Contract)

Watford Hybrid (4 days office, 1 day WFH)

Are you an ambitious early-career finance professional looking to fast-track your experience in systems, group reporting, and transformation projects?

CP Holdings are looking for a Financial Analyst to join their Group Finance team on an 18-month fixed-term contract, playing a key role in an exciting finance transformation programme. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on exposure to a major system implementation while developing strong technical and commercial finance skills.

The opportunity

You ll be part of Project Darwin, supporting the rollout of OneStream, a leading consolidation and financial planning tool used across the group. Working closely with finance stakeholders, project teams, and implementation partners, you ll gain real-world experience that goes far beyond a traditional analyst role.

This role is ideal for someone studying towards a professional accounting qualification (CIMA, ACA, or ACCA) or with a finance-related degree who wants to build a strong foundation in group finance and systems.

What you ll be doing

• Supporting the delivery of a group-wide OneStream implementation
• Assisting with system build activities, workshops, and documentation
• Preparing and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including reconciliations and issue logging
• Performing detailed data checks between legacy systems and OneStream
• Supporting finance users during testing and early adoption
• Helping maintain system master data, hierarchies, and mappings
• Responding to day-to-day system queries and supporting training sessions
• Contributing to ad-hoc finance analysis and reporting tasks

What CP Holdings are looking for

Essential:

• Studying towards a professional accounting qualification or holding a finance/accounting degree
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with financial data
• Solid understanding of financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)
• High attention to detail and a structured, methodical approach
• A proactive mindset with a genuine desire to learn

Desirable:

• Exposure to financial systems, consolidation tools, or reporting platforms
• Experience in a finance, accounting, or analytical role (including internships or placements)
• Awareness of month-end processes or finance transformation projects

Why join?

• Hands-on experience with a major finance systems implementation
• Exposure to group and multi-entity finance environments
• Supportive team culture with strong learning and development opportunities
• A role that builds highly marketable finance and systems skills
• Hybrid working with a Watford head office base

If you re curious, analytical, and keen to build a strong career in finance systems and group reporting, CP Holdings Ltd would love to hear from you.

RPS will be forwarding all applicants directly to CP Holdings Ltd.