Commercial Finance Analyst

An international, fast-growing retail company are looking for a Commercial Finance Analyst to join their wider finance team.

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager your key responsibilities will be

• Monthly Reporting including the delivery of timely, accurate & high quality monthly management information & other regular financial reporting, with commentary that communicates the trends & challenges facing the business
• Product development board pack and meeting preparation
• Daily sales reporting
• Contribute to the annual budget and re-forecast process
• Commercial finance function scalability
• Scalability of Commercial Finance (Consistency of Reporting/Suite of self-serve reports/data warehouse implementation)
• Develop 'self-serve' capability ensuring the business have access to a suite of reports enabling them to do their job
• Be involved within and be a key business stakeholder in the delivery of a reporting analytics software
• Business partnering and support to the leadership teams
• Commercial analysis and business decision making
• Understand the business drivers in depth and be able to recommend changes necessary to drive costs down or sales up
• Partner new product development teams, Purchasing teams and Sales teams

Skills and experience:

• A relevant degree
• Working towards academic qualification in business or finance (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Highly numerate with a strong attention to detail, with ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial people
• Minimum 1 years experience working within a Commercial Finance role within the consumer goods/manufacturing industry. An interest in supply route analysis (warehouse and delivery/carrier costs) would be desirable, with a view to business partnering our operations team
• Advanced excel skills (pivots, vlookup, sumif, sumifs)

You will need to be ambitious, driven and very hands on. You will be positive and resilient and enjoy a fast-paced environment.

If this sounds like you then apply today!