Commercial Finance Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Investigo

Investigo
Investigo
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Commercial Finance analyst_
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up to £45k + bonus_
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Hybrid working_

I am currently recruiting for an experienced commercial finance analyst to join a FTSE 100 Retail firm in London.

The role offers great trajectory, a fantastic company culture, supportive and motivating managers and the opportunity for you to gain greatexposure.


The role:


  • The Central Trading Finance team provides a key link between the various business partnering teams and FP&A teams across the business to create budgets and forecasts as well as delivering Trading performance insight.
  • Responsibility on ensuring robust daily, weekly and monthly reporting is provided with relevant insight into performance across both the groups General Merchandise and Clothing businesses.
  • Deliver insight into the sales and margin performance of both businesses through working closely with the Trading Finance Business Partners.
  • Leading on supporting the periodic Latest View planning process across Commercial for Sales and Margin working closely with Finance Business Partnering teams and wider commercial finance teams.
  • Facilitate and support the production of standardised reporting suites for Business Partnering teams to drive productive action / improved business performance in collaboration with the business.
  • Identify and evaluate opportunities to improve the reporting and forecasting processes across a range of business areas.

What you need to do

  • Produce and Develop standardised reporting suites for Business Partnering teams to support the continuous drive of business results in conjunction with the MI team.
  • To own and drive the delivery of the Latest View planning cycle in line with agreed deadlines and standards
  • Ensuring that the results are communicated in a timely and accurate way with a clear articulation of the drivers of performance and impacts
  • Support the delivery of Finance improvement initiatives and implementation of internal & external best practices to enhance process efficiency and quality of outputs including:
  • Data quality improvements
  • Elimination, simplification and/or automation of transactional activities (e.g. daily/weekly reporting and daily/weekly forecasting.)
  • Reporting improvements e.g. report rationalisation, design and implementation
  • Work closely with the other Trading Finance Managers and Analysts to support category specific initiatives/actions to improve the performance of the business.
  • Attend and actively contribute to key meetings as required
  • Responsible for managing relationships with relevant stakeholders
  • Drive the external reporting process to support Trading Statement and Interim/Prelim statements as well as providing support to the Investor Relations and Group Finance teams.
  • Part Qualiifed accountant (or studying towards an accounting qualification)
  • Strong commercial acumen and ability to understand key business performance drivers
  • Ability to present compex information in a simple and clear manner
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Strong interpersonal skills and an empathetic nature
  • Strong planning and prioritisation skills.
  • Entusiastic, positive and proactive engagement of key stakeholders
  • Resilience, flexibility and able to cope with time pressure and ambiguity.
  • Experience in business facing finance role.
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