FP&A Analyst

FP&A Analyst

Purpose of role: 

Working in the FP&A team, this role will support with financial modelling and planning used for executive decision making. The successful candidate will be skilled in performance and variance 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
• Build and manage financial models
• 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
• Provide in-depth analysis on business performance, working closely with the FP&A managers to emphasises the implications of the numbers and suggested actions
• Support in the development of the operating and financial plan
• Work closely with your team to support and examine operating performance, helping to advise on management decisions
• Ability to work across various stakeholders within the business and bring knowledge from various sources to support with the insights
• Work collaboratively across different finance teams, particularly the reporting and financial business partnering teams
• Ad-hoc analysis as required by the business

Essential knowledge, skills and capabilities:

• Detail-oriented and numerically savvy
• Ability to build relationships and engage with a number of business stakeholders
• Storytelling and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong statistical modelling skills e.g. regression, correlation, etc
• Data mining & predictive modelling skills
• Financial and analytical acumen with the ability to interrogate large data sets and come to sound, logical recommendations & conclusions
• Planning and organisation skills, ability to plan and prioritise work schedule and work within agreed timescales
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and pro-actively

• Bachelor’s degree +
• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent)
• Previous FP&A experience in a fast-paced environment / retail / FMCG
• Experience working in a large organisation with multi-currency and multi-national exposure is preferable
• Strong work ethic with a passion for financial analysis and reporting
• Very comfortable dealing with large quantities of data, and summarising the insights in well-presented charts and tables
• Experience with data mining and predictive modelling tools e.g. R, Pyton
• Previous experience with basic MS office tools, BI tools e.g. reporting tools (Cognos) and visualisation tools (Tableau) or similar
• Experience with, SQL and Alteryx or similar tools
• Proven ability in developing effective working relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues