FP&A Analyst

Role: Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis

Purpose of role:

The role of the analyst is to provide support to the FP&A team in planning and developing insights to enable decision making in the company. The successful candidate will be skilled in performance analysis and play a key role in generating insight for the commercial teams.

Reports to: FP&A Manager

Location: Dublin Head Office

Key Responsibilities:

• As an analyst in a fast-paced, expanding retail business you will be a valuable member of the FP&A Team
• Support with the submission of budgets and forecasts to ABF ensuring inputs are managed in an accurate, efficient manner to all levels of the organisation
• Work closely with key stakeholders to understand & act upon business requirements
• Provide in-depth analysis on business performance, working closely with the FP&A manager to emphasise the implications of the numbers and suggested actions
• Work collaboratively across different finance teams, particularly the business partnering and financial reporting teams
• Understand our customers and our competitors, while keeping up to date with commercial trends
• Ad-hoc analysis as required by the business

Essential knowledge, skills and capabilities:

• A critical thinker who asks the right questions and is strong in the ‘what if’
• Ability to build relationships across stakeholders
• Commercially aware, detailed orientated and numerically savvy
• Storytelling and communication skills and comfortable working cross-functionally throughout the business
• Commercial instinct with the ability to quickly understand the implications of a situation on our commercial performance, incorporate this into an analysis and communicate it effectively
• Action orientated and solutions focused
• Ability to collect, process & perform data analyses with strong skills in data interrogation across financial & non-financial data
• Effective planning and organisation skills, ability to plan and prioritise work schedule and work within agreed timescales
• Ability to identify risks & opportunities with the confidence to present solutions in a methodical manner
• Ability to work in an agile environment with ad-hoc activities

Successful candidates will meet the following criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree +
• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent)
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment / retail / FMCG
• High level of commercial acumen with the ability to see beyond the confines of the traditional Finance area
• Demonstrate initiative with strong work ethic
• The ability to produce relevant, coherent, succinct information analysis for all levels of management
• Ability to structure and present a story to influence decisions
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and pro-actively

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