Business Analyst

We are seeking a talented and motivated full-time Business Analyst to join our team at an exciting time of business growth and transformation. Located just a two-minute walk away from the Woking town centre, Step One Finance provides challenging and rewarding careers. We achieve this by offering continuous learning and development, collaborative teamwork environment and exposure to a wide variety of work. Imagine and shape your future at Step One Finance Limited where you can grow professionally, in a diverse and inclusive workplace that rewards your contribution.

Step One Finance is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we take affirmative action to create a more inclusive and equitable world of work.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with senior managers across the organisation to develop models, analysis and presentations that support strategic decision making.

• Contribute to long term planning, investment decision through scenario analysis and commercial modelling.

• Assist with ad hoc analyses, business cases, or project requests from business leaders.

• Develop and prepare high-quality investor reports, board decks, and executive presentations.

• Analyse financial performance, identify key trends and variances, and provide actionable insights to senior leadership.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with departments to gather data, validate assumptions, and enhance forecasting accuracy.

• Identify opportunities for process standardisation and drive initiatives to enhance reporting accuracy and efficiency.

• Partner with functional leads (Sales, Marketing, Technology, etc.) to deliver insights, support decision-making to support alignment to budgets and KPIs.

• Work closely with the Finance and IT teams to develop data driven tools that support the strategic analysis needs of senior management.

Key skills

• Advanced Excel skills — including complex formulas, pivot tables, INDEX, Power Query, and VBA (a plus).

• Comfortable working with large and complicated datasets with a wide variety of formats and sources.

• Interest and/or familiarity with Python and other related programming languages that support advanced data calculations and analysis.

• Familiarity with fixed income, derivatives and other relevant financial services industry products.

• Strong mathematical, statistical and analytical skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with proven English language verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience preparing materials for senior managers, investors or board-level audiences.

• Confidence building and owning complex forecasts including the ability to create financial models from scratch.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

• 4+ years of experience in a financial analysis or comparable role in the financial services industry.

Nice to Have

• Experience in corporate finance or private equity-backed businesses.

• Experience with business intelligence systems/tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar).

Personal Attributes

• Strong business partnership skills and team-oriented nature.

• A commercial mindset and curiosity about how the whole business works — not just Finance.

• Strong communication and influencing skills; able to build trusted relationships across all levels.

• High attention to detail, combined with the ability to simplify and explain the big picture.

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary

• The chance to be a key part of a growing company

• A dynamic and supportive team culture where your contributions are truly valued

• Comprehensive range of the employee benefits- subject to scheme rules