PMO Finance Analyst (IT Finance)

Location: South Manchester, UK; hybrid working with approximately 2 days per week on-site

Salary: £250–300 per day

Company

hirify.global Finance is recruiting for a large, complex organisation with a substantial technology investment portfolio.

What you will do

• Prepare monthly cash flow forecasts across multiple IT capital projects, monitor expenditure against budgets, and identify variances.
• Analyse project financial information, investigate discrepancies, and challenge unexpected transactions, journals, and cost allocations.
• Support month-end activities, including accruals, reconciliations, project expenditure reporting, and financial controls.
• Reconcile resource timesheets, project codes, and staff cost allocations while supporting the capitalisation of eligible project costs.
• Produce financial reports, KPI analysis, and management information, highlighting risks, trends, and corrective actions.
• Work with Project Managers, Finance Business Partners, and operational project teams on forecasts, budgets, queries, and reporting improvements.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in financial analysis, Finance Analysis, Project Finance, or a similar environment.
• Strong accounting knowledge covering accruals, debits and credits, journals, GL coding, budgets, CapEx, and OpEx.
• Advanced Excel skills, including LOOKUPs, pivot tables, and formulas.
• Experience using a large ERP or financial management system.
• Strong financial reconciliation, analytical, numerical, organisational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with cash flow forecasting, month-end reporting, financial controls, large datasets, and translating financial information into clear reporting.
• Ability to investigate and challenge discrepancies, explain financial information to non-finance colleagues, manage competing priorities, and work to deadlines.
• Ability to quickly understand established processes and contribute effectively from the outset.
• Comfort with detailed, hands-on financial and accounting work; approximately 50% of the role involves finance activities, with the remainder focused on project administration, data management, reconciliations, and stakeholder coordination.

Nice to have

• SAP experience involving financial reporting, timesheets, and reconciliations.
• Power Query and/or Power BI.
• Experience in a PMO, project finance, or IT capital expenditure environment.
• Understanding of labour cost capitalisation and project cost allocations.
• Exposure to Project Portfolio Management systems.
• Experience improving or automating Excel-based financial reporting.

Culture & Benefits

• Initial 3-month contract with a start date as soon as possible.
• Hybrid working pattern with approximately 2 days per week on-site in South Manchester.
• 37.5 hours per week.
• Opportunity to support financial control across a sizeable technology investment portfolio and multiple projects.
• Work within established financial processes while identifying opportunities to improve reporting accuracy and efficiency.

Hiring process

• Apply with an updated CV detailing aligned financial analysis, advanced Excel, and project-focused finance skills.
• Applications will be assessed against the essential criteria; only candidates meeting the criteria will be contacted.