We are partnering with a well-known beauty brand to recruit a Finance Analyst to support the business' ambitous growth plans.

The successful candidate will report into the Head of Commercial Finance, and will provide support to the operations team, offering quality commercial insight and ensuring that key business decisions improve profitability and digital growth. You will be responsible for analysing, reporting and supporting the full P&L performance across multiple sales channels including Digital and European Wholesale.

This is an excellent opportunity for a progressive and part-qualified/finalist finance analyst who is looking for their next move.

Key

Responsibilities:

• Own full P&L accounting, analysis and reporting for Sales channels within your area of responsibility. Explain key drivers to stakeholders and drive results providing actionable insight
• Manage financial performance through developing and monitoring key performance indicators relevant to individual channels.
• Support to drive company Digital Strategy of strong double-digit growth
• Identify and communicate opportunities and risks, supporting and challenging the teams to deliver the financial plan. Provide business case support for mitigation of risk and maximisation of opportunities
• Participate in customer meetings and support sales team in preparation for customer strategy meeting
• Review and analysis new and existing distributor business plans for Export channels
• Continually assess reporting requirements with Sales and Marketing teams, monitor feedback and update reports in order to improve quality, timely delivery and accurate reporting. Evolve reporting towards the use of self-serve BI using Tableau
• Produce the financial channel budgets alongside the key stakeholders ensuring it delivers the key financial metrics whilst aligning with the strategic objectives
• Review and advise on commercial terms agreements and negotiations, providing commercial analysis for existing and prospective accounts
• Provide support on promotional mechanics, marketing spend and return on investment. Monitor Digital marketing KPIS
• Liaise with the wider Finance team to ensure alignment on financial modelling, reporting and budgeting
• Take part in / lead ad hoc projects as required by management from time to time

Key Requirements:

• Part qualified or Finalist CIMA/ ACCA/ACA Student
• Degree level education - 2:1 or above
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong Excel skills with good formula knowledge like: VLOOKUP, SUMIF, MATCH, the ability to create and format graphs and tables and use large data extracts
• Knowledge of Tableau - desirable
• Good communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• A "raring to go" mentality and willingness to progress
• Strong work ethic
• The ability to apply the context of a situation to hypothetical scenarios
• Mobility and a willingness to travel

Full study support is provided as well as excellent benefits.

We regret that due to the high volume of applications we are unable to acknowledge every application. Please bear in mind that if you are successful we will contact you within the next 7 days. However, if we think that your skills and qualifications may be suitable for other similar positions we may hold your details on our database and contact you in the future.