Financial Reporting Analyst

Giant Group is seeking a Financial Reporting Analyst to join our expanding team at our Lahore office located in Askari Corporate Tower, Gulberg III. This permanent role offers a competitive salary of up to 200,000 PKR per month, with working hours from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, Monday to Friday. The position is ideal for candidates with 1-3 years of experience in financial reporting and analysis, who possess strong communication skills and hold a degree from a reputable university. This role focuses on financial reporting, analysis, and governance rather than audit, making it suitable for analyst-level professionals rather than senior or managerial candidates.

Key Responsibilities
- Assist in preparing monthly reporting packs and provide supporting financial analysis.
- Conduct revenue, cost, overhead, and profitability analysis across Group entities.
- Support the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and other financial analyses as required.
- Enhance the quality, consistency, and presentation of financial reports, including automating recurring reports.
- Develop and maintain a working knowledge of UK VAT, PAYE, and other tax requirements relevant to the Group.
- Collect and organize documentation needed for responses to HMRC queries.
- Ensure that reporting and compliance documentation is complete, well-organized, and readily accessible for review.
- Maintain documentation demonstrating the operation of key finance and tax processes across the Group.
- Assist the Finance team with UK tax compliance matters, including VAT and PAYE.
- Prepare monthly governance and compliance packs for Finance Manager review.

Required Qualifications
- A completed bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business from a reputable university. An MBA is considered an advantage.
- 1-3 years of experience in financial reporting, financial analysis, or FP&A.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and the ability to produce accounts from ledgers to financial accounting standards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of preparing Board working papers and policies.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel skills including pivot tables and VLOOKUP.
- Ability to analyze financial data, identify trends, and detect unusual movements.
- Experience primarily in external audit or senior/managerial roles is not suitable for this position.
- ACCA/CA qualification is not required.

Preferred Qualifications and Employee Benefits
- Experience in the IT services industry is preferred but not mandatory.
- Working knowledge of UK VAT and PAYE is useful; comprehensive UK compliance training will be provided.

Employee benefits include provident fund, medical and mental health coverage, life insurance, paid role-related training and studies, birthday leave, subsidized parking, referral bonuses, long-term service awards, social events and trips, and weekly snack Fridays.

Giant Group is committed to equal employment opportunities and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including those with disabilities. All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks. Early applications are encouraged as the company reserves the right to close the vacancy ahead of the deadline, which is 14th October 2026.