Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create meaningful and actionable variance analysis comparing performance of KPIs with agreed targets and budgets
• Support business decision making through exploring business questions using data analysis and visualisation and delivering conclusions and recommendations
• Support the business by providing information and insight into past, current and potential future trading activities, highlighting opportunities and risks to improve business performance
• Support on our rebates analysis – tracking performance, producing reconciliations, reporting to finance, producing scenario analysis to assist with profitability decisions
• Build & maintain regular reporting in an easy to use, insightful and actionable way to department stakeholders
• Develop efficient, automated reporting as requested by the business on an ad hoc basis, allowing decisions to be made at all levels of seniority
• Maintain key reports, metrics and workflows running within their scope, including where relevant highlighting data integrity issues and escalating to appropriate teams
• Support the business planning processes by forecasting the relevant KPI performance over the short, medium and long term
• Collaborate with other business units to improve ways of working and ensure appropriate reporting, process and metric alignment
• Support on commercially focused projects, providing relevant insights, reporting and financial impact information

• 1-2 years of data processing experience (SQL, Hadoop, Excel etc.)
• Ability to effectively develop strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business
• Confident presenting findings in an effective, structured and actionable way to a wide set of audiences with varying levels of understanding
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex problems, analysis and topics in a concise, meaningful way.
• Analytical and curious mindset, with strong commercial acumen
• Able to appropriately prioritise and organise workload independently