# Senior Reporting Analyst

> Sustainable Energy First · Fulwood, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-12

**Salary:** GBP 32,000–36,000

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** Bureau

## Description

**Our purpose** 🌍

Inspiring and empowering our people to create a positive difference for themselves, our clients and the planet.

Sustainable Energy First is an energy and sustainability consultancy, founded to solve energy management problems in very large, complex commercial estates.

This remains the core of our business driven by a commitment to sustainability and the goal of reducing our clients’ carbon footprint.

**The Role in a Nutshell 🐿️**

As a Senior Reporting Specialist (Financial Reporting) at Sustainable Energy First you will create and maintain energy financial reporting for key customers, delivering detailed forecasts and additional value to client contacts. This role requires a detail-oriented analyst with strong excel skills who can confidently communicate the outcomes of their work to stakeholders. You will be responsible for maintaining a relationship with key stakeholders and working closely with other teams to ensure accuracy of data.

You are a deeply experienced professional with a proven track record of excellence, bringing expert-level knowledge and insight to your field. Your depth of experience enables you to navigate complexity with ease, make confident decisions, and provide trusted guidance to others.

## Requirements

**👉 Creation of quality complex financial reporting** - Developing and preparing detailed, accurate, and timely reports for clients

**👉 Direct delivery of reporting to the client** - Focus on the value add and insight.

**👉 Client Communication** - Building client relationships and being a key point of contact for all things relating to the contracted reporting.  Deliberate conversations with the client around the reporting, providing insight and opportunities not limited to the purpose of the report.

**👉 Continuous Improvements** - Working with the Financial Reporting - Division Manager and Principal Reporting Specialist to Identify opportunities to enhance the reporting process through automation.

**👉 Report Delivery** - Ensure timely delivery of high-quality reporting across client base.

**👉 Ensuring Accuracy** - maintaining accurate financial reports and ensuring that any discrepancies are identified and resolved promptly.

**👉 Insight & Value Add -** Deliver accurate reporting enhanced with actionable insights into the client's energy usage and associated carbon impact, along with tailored recommendations to help reduce their carbon footprint.

**Key ingredients for the role**

**✅ Attention to detail** - Precision in managing and reporting financial data

**✅ Analytical skills** - Ability to analyse financial data and identify trends in areas of concern

**✅ Communication Skills** - Ability to present financial information to clients

**✅ Problem Solving Skills** - Ability to identify discrepancies or inefficiencies in financial reports and correct them.

**✅ Industry knowledge** - Strong knowledge of industry schemes and an understanding of commodity markets and their impact on reporting.  Become a trusted source of utility financial information for stakeholders, proving reliability and knowledge.

**✅ Reporting tools** - Proficiency in reporting tools such as Excel

**✅** Development of a strong relationship with customer contacts

**✅ Meeting Deadlines** - Ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines and communicate potential delays.

**✅ Training & Coaching Skills** - As a senior member of the team, being able to support the Principal Reporting Specialist to mentor & coach your colleagues is vitally important in this role.

**✅ Collaboration** - Thrives in cross-functional teams and contributes to positive team dynamics

## Benefits

💷 Salary: To be discussed at interview

🌴 Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays + 🥳 your birthday off, increasing to 30 days on length of service

🏠 Hybrid working (at least 2 days per week working from our Fulwood, Preston office)

⌛Flexible working - including the ability to bank up to to 5 extra days off per year

⛹🏽 Gym contribution

💰 Long service awards

🩺 Private Medical Insurance

🐣 Enhanced paternity/non-pregnant colleague and maternity/pregnant colleague leave

🏥 Simply Health scheme

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**Inclusion and Belonging**

We believe that diversity is more than a commitment, it’s at the heart 🤎 of who we are. We aim to create an environment where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work.

We celebrate different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences because we know they make us stronger, bolder and more imaginative, which link to our core values. By fostering a culture of belonging, we aim to provide a workplace where every voice is heard, and every individual can thrive.

Our culture has been set up to bring the best out of our people. If we sound like the kind of business where you’re ready to take the next step, then we look forward to hearing from you!

## Apply

[Apply at Sustainable Energy First](https://apply.workable.com/sefirst/j/1C8092614D/apply)

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