Quick Overview
Job Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.
The FP&A Senior Analyst will play a key role in supporting the Commercial Finance function, with a key focus on financial planning and analysis. It will provide business partnering support to cost functions Legal, Risk and Compliance (LRC), Regional Ops and Procurement. This is an execution-focused six-month interim position requiring a candidate who can quickly become effective, work independently, and deliver high-quality outputs with minimal supervision. The role will report directly to the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Performance Reporting & Business Performance Management
- Support the monthly performance reporting cycle; ownership of board reporting, delivering timely, accurate, and insight-driven analysis of financial and operational performance.
- Produce high quality variance commentary, senior level financial analysis and bridges delivering clear and concise outputs for senior leadership audience.
- Perform detailed variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities.
- Collaborate with the wider finance team to streamline and automate reporting processes, leveraging best practices and technology.
Financial Analysis & Insight
- Ownership of the budgeting and forecasting planning processes for respective cost functions and supporting overall consolidation of Fastmarkets planning cycle.
- Deliver timely and accurate financial analysis, scenario modelling, and recommendations to support strategic initiatives and growth opportunities.
- Translate complex financial data into actionable insights for both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
Finance Partnering Support
- Partner with leaders across LRC, Regional Operations and Procurement, providing commercial insight and constructive challenge to drive business performance.
- Work closely with cross‑functional teams to understand business drivers on a monthly basis and identify opportunities for growth and efficiency.
Automation & Process Improvement
- Data hygiene & controls: define and run quality checks between reporting systems (NetSuite and Anaplan), alerting for material variances before monthly close.
- Change & decommission: identify manual reports suitable for decommission; maintain a backlog of automation candidates with estimated time saved and expected impact.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior finance leadership in the UK and Sofia alongside cross‑finance and functional teams.
- Support audit and compliance requirements, maintaining and improving internal controls.
KEY INTERFACES
Although the reporting line is directly to the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis, there will be regular involvement with other members of Commercial finance (UK and Sofia) and local Financial Control teams (UK and Sofia). Gaining business insight from the relevant business functions to assist in optimising reporting formats and outputs will also be important as guided by the direct management
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
- Experience working in FP&A, commercial finance, or an analyst / business partnering role.
- Recent hands-on forecasting and Board / executive reporting experience.
- Part‑qualified or qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) preferred.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and communicate insights clearly.
- Strong attention to detail, organisational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a collaborative, proactive approach.
- Experience with finance transformation, automation, or process improvement projects is highly desirable.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Anaplan) is a plus.
- Working knowledge of NetSuite (saved searches, custom reports) and Salesforce data structures; familiarity with Snowflake is a plus.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.
Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets
We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.
Specific benefits may vary by country and role.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.