A fantastic opportunity for a Commercial Finance Analyst has arisen to join an FMCG / Retail company based in Maidenhead. This role offers hybrid working options and excellent progression opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the drivers of historic, current and forecast performance for client group/business area and provide monthly financial analysis, insight and explanation of performance, highlighting emerging issues or trends and making recommendations on corrective actions
- Interpret, explain and drive performance within the business
- Support and influence key operational and strategic decisions by providing insight and challenge
- Translate operational targets into executable in-year plans
- Partner with client group to drive actions to meet targets (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc)
- Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities.
- Review actual performance (pricing, promo ROI, sales, margin, variable costs, overheads, EBITDA, working capital, ROI etc) with a view to making recommendations and provoking interventions required to drive down costs, improve margins and convert P&L into cash
- Own and drive initiatives focused on closing variances with the business
- Ensure business understands and delivers against KPIs
- Facilitate ad-hoc analysis and insights on specific issues at a strategic level
- Support strategy development by providing financial performance insights and recommendations to client group, identifying potential opportunities and/or risks through scenario and sensitivity analysis
- Evaluate investment options from a financial perspective to provide a long term view of the impact on key KPIs for client group/business area (e.g. pricing, mix, sales, margin, variable costs, media costs, working capital, ROI etc)
- Work with the management team to define planning assumptions, risks and investment opportunities
- Provide support and challenge to ensure the quality of data, working closely with other functions to improve accuracy and timeliness
Qualifications:
- Qualified ACMA, ACCA or ACA
- Previous Business Partnering experience within an FMCG environment
- Microsoft Project skills, Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills
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