Project Finance Analyst, Enterprise Nation
£45-50k
Support platform for UK & Ireland Small Businesses
Job no longer available
Support platform for UK & Ireland Small Businesses
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£45-50k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create an inspirational community for business owners and entrepreneurs; championing the voice of small businesses and providing a supportive network with campaign programmes, informational events, resources, and advice.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally someone with experience in a similar role
- A numerically minded person with great attention to detail and accuracy
- Able to manage budgets, and deliver to deadlines and financial targets
- Personable and able to work well with the wider team, from junior to C-suite colleagues
- Entrepreneurial – able to navigate in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision
- Trusted – able to take difficult decisions and show resilience under pressure
What the job involves
- Budget building: Working with our partnerships team to cost up proposals and new projects where required
- Budgeting: Collaborating with department heads to create and manage budgets for various projects and initiatives, particularly the programmes team
- Public sector programme reporting: Working with our partnerships and programmes teams to oversee public sector programmes with financial reporting requirements and tracking invoices that depend on deliverables
- Data entry: Accurately collating and adding financial data in key tools to help track how individual programmes are performing
- Programme evaluation: Analysing the performance of existing projects and programmes, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and making recommendations for improvement or expansion
- Financial updates: Preparing a monthly update on our programmes' financial performance for the executive team
- CRM entry: Supporting our partnerships team with adding financial data to our CRM system where necessary
- Cost analysis: Conducting thorough cost-benefit analyses for proposed programmes and initiatives to ensure they are financially viable
- Payment approvals: Cross-checking invoices against project/programme budgets, maintained by programme managers, to sign off for payment
- Cost management: Looking across the business and working with team heads to manage key costs and make sure our subscriptions for tech tools are suitable and correct
- Time tracking: Making sure the team is leveraging the tools and adding/tracking their time accordingly
- Grant programmes: Supporting with the administration of grant programmes, including producing and sharing grant agreement letters and obtaining grant recipients' bank details
- Internal calls: Where required, attending internal calls with the financial/commercial function, project kick offs and wider team calls
Application process
- Note: We're unable to sponsor applications for visas – so please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 2005, Enterprise Nation is a leading platform and network for business support in the UK, providing growing businesses and start-ups with support & training to help them evolve.
Via online training and resources as well as in-person networking and lecture events, Enterprise Nation has been a go-to consultant for many areas of industry and small businesses. It has also been involved in campaigns such as Startup Britain, a government-funded initiative that’s been running for over a decade.
Enterprise Nation’s founder, CBE Emma Jones is a prominent voice concerning government financing and investment, adding credence to the leadership of Enterprise Nation. In 2025, campaigns connected to or launched by Enterprise Nation include Vodafone-sponsored digital training scheme Business Connected, Amazon Small Business Accelerator, free training hub Adobe Brand Builder and a Channel 4-affiliated advertising competition. All these and more suggest that Enterprise Nation is keeping up with tech and digital developments that are shifting the paradigm.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% female employees
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2018
$0.3m
GRANT
Total funding: $0.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible working policy
- 28 Days Annual Leave; option to carry over 5 days a year
- Enhanced Parental & Maternity Leave – We are a family friendly employer
- Employee Support – Available through external consultancy, providing access to guidance and assistance
- A generous snack and drinks station at our Enterprise Nation HQ
- Learning & Development Support – individual budgets available, negotiated case by case
- Employee Book Scheme – funding for professional development books
- Pension Scheme (via Smart Pensions)
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Private Health Insurance after probation
- Access to FORA network of co-working spaces for those in London
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Emma Jones
(Founder)Previously a Small Business Representative for the HM Government, Founder at Techlocate.com and a Manager at Arthur Andersen.
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