Commercial Finance Analyst

Our client is a rapidly growing, acquisitive private equity backed leisure business B2C.  Due to continued growth, the business is looking to recruit an exceptional candidate into their Commercial team.

• A highly analytical role to provide support on new, business improvement initiatives, margin improvement project;
• Identification of future opportunities through robust and insightful analysis;
• Influence key stakeholders and generate change in the business, to drive future margin growth.

Key responsibilities

• Assist in the delivery of business improvement projects;
• Use financial, commercial and technical experience to produce robust, accurate, commercial analysis;
• Work closely with our Business Information team, on large and complex data sets;
• Work alongside the business to improve core processes so performance and profitability drivers can be embedded into our business;
• Clearly articulate the commercial benefits of new initiatives;
• Identify controls and guardrails to manage risks associated with new projects;
• Flexibility, adaptability and ability to with and influence a wide variety of people across the business;
• Comfortable with change management, and challenging the status quo.

The Candidate

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACMA / ACCA), or highly financially literate (data modelling, consulting, analyst);
• Excellent excel skills, particularly in dealing with large data sets;
• Ability to run SQL queries on databases would be useful but not essential;
• Self-motivated and proactive: the ability to seek, identify and progress initiatives and ideas;
• High degree of emotional intelligence;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: the ability to communicate with people across the business, not just finance;
• Organised, an efficient and effective planner who can prioritise and manage multiple work streams;
• Experience with business change/efficiency/improvement programmes;
• Strong influencing skills.

This is an exciting opportunity to move into a fast paced, dynamic PE backed business with an exit likely in the next 12 - 18 months which will provide an excellent platform for a commercially focused accountant.