Finance Analyst - Star Pubs
Function: Star Pubs Finance Team
Location: Edinburgh St Andrew’s Square based – hybrid home & office working
Salary: £35,000 - £42,000 base depending on experience, plus full benefits listed below
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 7th August 2026. Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications.
Are you looking to start your journey with HEINEKEN UK? You already know that we make great beers and ciders, well we also offer exciting and dynamic careers!
We’re looking for someone that’s as ready to evolve for the future as we are. If you’re ready to get involved, apply for our permanent Finance Analyst role to join our Star Pubs Finance team!
About the role
Our Star Pubs Commercial Finance team plays a key role in helping one of the UK's largest leased and tenanted pub businesses make informed commercial decisions. Working closely with finance and business stakeholders, we provide insightful reporting, support planning and forecasting, and help ensure the business delivers against its financial ambitions.
You'll support the financial reporting and management of the Star Pubs cost base. You'll play an important role in month end activities, forecasting, planning and business partnering, helping to provide the insight needed to drive informed decisions across the business.
Key responsibilities will include monthly management accounting, reporting and variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting, risk and opportunity tracking, process improvement and stakeholder management across Finance and the wider Star Pubs business.
A key part of the role is building strong relationships with your stakeholders, providing clear financial insight and helping colleagues understand financial performance, risks and opportunities. You'll also support a strong control environment, ensuring the integrity of financial information and reporting.
Who we’re looking for?
We're looking for someone who is ideally part-qualified, or working towards their professional qualification, with strong analytical skills and a commercial mindset. You'll enjoy working with people across the business and be comfortable turning financial information into practical insight.
If you have:
- Strong analytical skills and experience working with financial data.
- The ability to problem solve and work in a fast-paced commercial environment.
- Good organisation skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- The confidence to build strong relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- The ability to communicate financial information clearly and simply.
- A proactive approach and a willingness to challenge and improve existing processes.
- An interest in understanding how the Star Pubs business operates.
Our Benefits
As part of the team, along with your salary, you’ll also receive;
- Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
- Annual Bonus
- Double matched pension (up to 10%)
- 35 days holiday (pro rata)
- Flexible benefits, including a retail discounts platform
- A quarterly allowance towards purchasing our delicious ciders and beers! (low and no alcohol options available)
You’ll also get the opportunity to get involved with one of our colleague networks where groups of colleagues from all over the business work together to ensure we’re always working towards being a diverse and inclusive company.
The application
If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!
If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected]
Who We Are
Star Pubs is part of HEINEKEN UK. The vast majority of our 2,400 pubs are leased out to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Around 200 pubs operate on our Just Add Talent model (a managed operator agreement). Our ambition is to bring out the best in the great British pub – by attracting and retaining the best operators, investing to create great pubs at the heart of their communities and providing licensees with market-leading insight and support.
If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.
There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.
