Finance Analyst

About This Role

The Finance Analyst role will have responsibility for preparing timely, relevant, and accurate financial reports and data analysis to enable performance evaluation, budgetary control and promote accountability. Providing excellent business partnering support to budget holders and supporting all aspects of financial decision making will be a key part of this role along with, achieving ongoing improvements and efficiencies in month-end close processes, budgeting, forecasting and medium-term strategic and financial planning.

About You

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Finance Analyst to join our team. Whilst being a confident people-person who enjoys working collaboratively with various stakeholders across a complex arts institution, you’ll also have a real passion for data-analysis, financial modelling and reporting, motivated to “get behind the numbers” to provide valuable insights to support decision-making.

This is a chance to join a hard-working, respected, and energetic Finance team, at one of the world’s major art institutions.

The RA dates way back to 1768 when a group of artists and architects persuaded King George lll to help them to ‘establish a society for promoting the Art of Design'. The original academy, in Pall Mall, was less than 10 meters long. Since then, there have been many changes, though the RA’s core purpose of bringing art and design to a broad audience and championing art and artists still holds true.

Today we are a contemporary art organisation hosting internationally acclaimed exhibitions and through investment in employee training and development, with courses such as Unconscious Bias, LGBTQ+ Awareness, Bystander, and Mental Health First Aid training, we are striving to foster a safe space for everyone through positive action. We also have Employee Network Groups, Ways In Groups, and an Employee Council so every employee has a voice and a way to feel heard by colleagues through the CEO.

The RA is truly a unique place, both as an attraction to our visitors, but also as a workplace. Our people are at the heart of all we do, and we support a broad and inspiring mix of departments; from exhibitions, curators, art handlers, researchers, publishers, and digital to schools and education, visitor welcome, fundraisers, and corporate support.