Commercial Finance Analyst - #1704109

We're looking for a commercially minded Finance Analyst to join a progressive Financial Performance team, ideally from a retail or FMCG background to support the business areas, during what is an exciting time to join a rapidly changing business and help shape its future direction.

In this varied role, you'll be supporting, challenging, reviewing and interpreting the performance of the business.

You’ll help forecast spend and provide analysis and performance insights to support the Senior Finance team and corresponding Business areas.

Identifying and analysing key business revenue and costs drivers, you’ll also assist in the analysis and reporting of progress against strategic priorities. This will help enable you to support and challenge the business in driving performance.

You’ll be involved in the production of post investment review and develop reports to highlight key learnings, agreed actions and emerging trends.

This is a hybrid role, which will see you working a mixture of at the office based in the heart of Lichfield, and the remainder of the time working from home.

How will I know if I am right for this role?

• As a Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant, you’ll have the ability to work using your own initiative and demonstrate a proactive approach to issue resolution.


• You’ll be experienced with budgeting and forecasting but have the enthusiasm and aspiration to grow you finance career.


• You’ll demonstrate strong commercial and financial acumen, understanding the key sales and profitability drivers.


• You must be able to challenge current practice and processes.


• Bringing your eye for detail, you’ll always be looking to make improvements and do things better.


• As well as being organised and able to deliver to deadlines, you’ll have strong excel skills and experience in manipulating large data quantities with a track record in providing high quality insight and analysis.


• As a person you will be confident with strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and able to work collaboratively with colleagues across the business.

This is a unique opportunity for someone looking to grow and develop their professional finance career whilst making a positive impact and being involved in both ongoing commercial decision support as well as key project support.

What is in it for me?

In addition to competitive salaries, employees also benefit from:

• Fantastic colleague discount- including a discount of up to 20% on products.


• Retail discounts- our hub offers colleagues access to hundreds of exclusive retail discounts, savings on days out and holiday discounts.


• Holiday buy- colleagues can buy up to a week extra of annual leave each year


• Colleague recognition- we celebrate colleague’s achievements both personally and professionally


• Enhanced family friendly policies- to help you feel fully supported during any significant life events.


• Colleague Dividend- We pay a share of our profits to eligible colleagues as a thank you for their contribution to our success.


• Paid time for volunteering- we encourage our colleagues to spend three days per year taking part in volunteering, fully paid for by us.


• Give as you earn- helping you support charities which mean something to you.


• Healthcare Cashplan- your wellbeing is important, so you’ve got the opportunity to contribute into a voluntary plan that helps pay towards a range of healthcare expenses.


• Company Pension- you can access a company pension scheme with us as well as access to Pension wellbeing information.


• Life Assurance- after an initial qualifying period, you’ll get free life assurance cover, that pays your nominated beneficiary if you die while you’re working for us.


• Personalised learning and development- with easy access to a wide range of training programmes