FP&A Commercial Analyst

Commercial Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis

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.

What the role will involve:

• 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

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree +
• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent)
• 1-3 years PQE
• Previous FP&A or Business Partnering experience in a fast paced environment. Retail/FMCG an advantage
• 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
• Previous experience with basic MS office tools, BI tools e.g. reporting tools (Cognos) and visualisation tools (Tableau) or similar
• Proven ability in developing effective working relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues

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