Finance Business Analyst

Are you part qualified and looking for the next step in your finance career?

Fresh Direct is one of the UK’s top wholesale food suppliers, supplying the best restaurant brands on the high street. We’re looking to add to our team in a number of key areas and we need people who are passionate about the job they do, committed to developing strong working relationships across the business, and driven by the need to deliver nothing but the very best results.

Plus we are not alone, Fresh Direct is part of the Fresh Direct family, a set of specialist brands including M&J Seafood, Wild Harvest, Fresh Fayre and Fresh Kitchen. To top it off, the Fresh Direct family is proudly part of Sysco, the world’s largest food service supplier.

Scope of the Role

To provide analytical insight and commercial guidance and challenge strategic decision making relating to both the sales & purchasing arenas.

Key Responsibilities

• Business partner with sales and procurement
• Build weekly KPI trackers and provide weekly business performance reporting to the Fresh Direct UK Director of Sales and account managers
• Ensure that all regular reporting is relevant, accurate, insightful, consistent and timely
• Assist in identifying trends, risks and opportunities in sales and margin trends, ensuring that customer patterns, credit note trends, rebates etc. are fully understood
• Provide impactful analysis on sales and margins including LFL trading and provide insights on market trends
• Provide day to day collaborative analytical support to the sales teams as required to ensure all targets and objectives are met or exceeded
• Provide customer and supplier profitability analysis and customer profiling
• Update and prepare financial models to support the tendering process for both new and existing clients
• Assist Commercial Finance Manager in commercial bids and add value through developing insights on new win sweet spots, product and customer opportunities to drive ongoing improvement in win rates
• Assist in month end with preparation of the key month end reports including MPR packs with relevant insightful commentary
• Assist with preparation of annual Sales & Margin budgets/forecasts including detailed analysis throughout the process

Key Attributes

• Part Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
• Confident, resilient, independently driven and engaging individual
• Highly analytical with ability to make sense of large volumes of data
• A self-starter with strong intellectual curiosity
• Able to work well with other function in the business
• Enthusiastic with a "can do" attitude and willingness to learn
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload independently and decisively
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills and an ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation