Commercial Finance Analyst

Fantastic opportunity for a confident and experienced Commercial Finance Analyst to take on a new challenge with a large high street retailer based in Warrington.

The role offers a great challenge and a great range of experience, if you have a passion for all things retail this is the role for you.

Client Details

Fantastic opportunity to shape the retail environment of a large retailer based in Warrington, they are growing year on year and currently have a turnover in excess of £120m.

They where founded over 30 years ago and have over 100 high street stores and a large online presence. They are the largest online retailer in Europe for their chosen product lines.

Description

The successful Commercial Finance Analyst will be responsible for;

• Develop strong relationships with the Category Managers and Buyers to deliver projects that align to their priorities and category plans

• Deliver high quality, actionable insight to the Category teams enabling them to make better trading decisions including supporting the Category Managers with the quarterly buying strategies.

• Support retail stores to drive sales and margin at a local level - providing analytics and MI to help stores drive profitability.

• Determine true product cost of sale with a view to minimise costs and maximise margin e.g. distribution costs of small inexpensive items vs potential profit - identify solution - ideal carton pack size and distribution cost.

• Supporting merchandise team with forecasting by brand.

• OTB (Open to Buy / WSSI) weekly reporting analysis.

• Seasonality & Terminal stock reporting and analysis.

• Pre and post promotional analysis & planning to ensure profit and sales targets are achievable, all options explored and KPI impact analysis past event.

• Develop recommendations as to how retail and / or trading propositions should be adjusted to drive improved performance.

• Responsible for measurement of key trading initiatives (e.g. price changes, range changes) - defining and measuring the right departmental KPIs to define success and combining with other metrics (e.g. financial metrics) to give a clear view of performance.

• Identify promotional opportunity through gap analysis to flatten the sales peaks & troughs vs ourselves and the market. Achieve through an analytical numbers based promotional plan.

Profile

The ideal Commercial Finance Analyst will be;

• Able to turn large complex data sets in to concise and actionable reports

• Advanced Excel skills (Essential)

• Experience within retail based business (highly desirable)

• Experience with Power - Bi, Tableau (highly desirable not essential)

• Be studying towards ACCA/CIMA (desirable but not essential)

Job Offer

The successful Commercial Finance Analyst will receive;

• Competitive salary up to £40,000

• 26 days holiday plus bank

• Retail discounts

• Pension

• Free Parking