Finance Analyst

We’re looking for a Finance Analyst to join and support our Retail Finance Business Partnering Team.

About the role

As a Finance Analyst you’ll provide finance support, advice and challenge to our Retail teams, to develop successful and effective relationships in order to deliver great analysis and insight. 

As Retail has exciting new plans for the next year, including continued online growth and new store openings in a variety of new formats, you’ll be a critical and influential member the Finance team. 

You’ll take a proactive approach to identifying the finance needs of the Retail teams, delivering new solutions and data led insights to help grow the retail business.  You’ll be expected to be both challenging and supportive in assisting Retail to achieve the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) strategic goals.

This is a dual location role, with your working time split between your home and our Claygate office. This will allow us to unlock our best work for our cause, blending the best of home and office working.

About you

Part qualified CCAB or CIMA accountant, or with significant retail or charity finance experience, you’ll have a core understanding of technical accounting fundamentals, preferably with intent to attain full qualification.  This will include relevant experience of management accounting/reporting, forecasting, budgeting and analysis.

You’ll have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, able to have those difficult conversations with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation. With strong analytical skills you’ll be intellectually curious and challenging, comfortable and skilled in explaining the financial issues to non-finance people.

Excellent MS Excel skills are a must for this role, and you’ll have high quality standards and a positive ‘can do’ attitude and will be able to work independently but also contribute and collaborate as part of a team.

About us

When people affected by heart and circulatory diseases are in need, they turn to us. With our research we give people hope. With our expert advice and training, we give people knowledge and support. And with our campaigning we help build a healthier world for everyone.

We celebrate diversity and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Diversity and Inclusion forms a main pillar in our People Experience Strategy. Our aim is for all of our colleagues and volunteers to bring their true self to work, so we can continue to fund life saving research. 

Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life.  Many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.

What can we offer you

To find out more about benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of this page.

Interview process

The interview process will be held over MS Teams.