Junior FP&A Analyst
- Recruiter
- Primark Ireland
- Location
- Dublin - Mary St, Dublin, Ireland
- Salary
- Unspecified
- Posted
- 18 Nov 2021
- Closes
- 02 Dec 2021
- Ref
- 80768BR
- Approved employers
- Approved employer
- Sector
- Retail and FMCG
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Qualified accountant
Role:
Junior Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis
Purpose of role:
Working in the FP&A team, this role will support with the financial planning process around the annual budget and quarterly forecasting. The successful candidate will be skilled in performance and variance analysis and play a key role in generating insight for the business and finance leadership.
Reports to: FP&A Manager
Location: Dublin Head Office
Key Responsibilities:
- As a junior 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 financial reporting and finance 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)
- 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
Successful candidates will meet the following criteria (Experience):
- Bachelor’s degree +
- Part qualified or newly qualified (less than one year PQE) accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent)
- Previous finance 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
- 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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