Commercial Finance Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Pro-Finance Recruitment Group

Pro-Finance Recruitment Group

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Commercial Finance Analyst

Wandsworth/Hybrid

C£50,000 plus bonus

The Role

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager, this is a role to support the Finance team and wider business with weekly, monthly and annual reporting, budgeting and forecasting as well as commercial insight and analysis, enabling management to make key businessdecisions.

Key responsibilities include:

Weekly trade analysis for all business channels around Sales, Margin and Stock
Creation, improvement and maintenance of financial and trade reports
Detailed variance analysis and investigation, working with the wider business to ensure reporting and data is consistent across the teams
Partner with Merchandising to produce all weekly and monthly stock reconciliations. Support finance team with month end balance sheet reconciliations to Sun
Adhoc promotional sales analysis and reforecasting
Retail Partner; Act as the primary contact for all retail analysis and requests
Store by Store P&Ls, including channel analysis by:
Partner, Country, Market, Region
Set KPI targets and tracking for KPIs including: Footfall, Conversion, ASP, ATV
Support Merchandising with Retail stock analysis focused on availability and sales opportunities
Trials support retail to determine the basis of trials, selected and control sets Measurement and communication of results
Adhoc analysis tasks as required
Ecom Partner;
Monthly ecom analysis of sales by country
Adhoc analysis tasks as required
Overheads
Preparation and analysis of monthly overhead reports for all head office departments, preparing monthly accruals schedule for finance team to post at month end
Hold monthly budget review meetings with each department and set action plans
Build relationships with internal peer group to understand and forecast overhead costs
Set up new PO reporting and accruals process for month end
Understanding and reporting KPIs for Warehouse costs and efficiencies including preparing monthly review pack with commentary and supporting the wider team implementing any actions.
Produce and monitor total business capex budget at project level including being the finance representative for all projects and supporting with producing business cases where necessary
Group Reporting
Preparation of all reporting including:
Monthly Sales analysis and commentary (flash)
Including sales recon to SUN
Budget, Quarterly Forecast and Bi-Annual reporting requirements including sales, territory, capex and debtor reporting
Consolidating data for quarterly insurance reporting
Manage and maintain the financial data cube in Cognos
Supporting the Commercial Finance Manager in preparing the annual budget and quarterly forecasts for all of the above business areas
Assist in the preparation of the monthly Board pack
Adhoc projects

Desired Skills and Experience:

Retail experience and experience of multisite operations is preferable
Strong analytical skills
Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal, communicates well with a nonfinancial audience
Previous experience as a Commercial Finance Analyst
Advanced Excel
Group reporting

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