About The Role

This role is a perfect opportunity for an enthusiastic and confident graduate who is looking for their first challenge. This Junior/Graduate Commercial Analyst role represents a brilliant opportunity for graduate calibre or an early career professional who has an interest to develop a career within an eccentric and outgoing Commercial team.

This role is sat within the wider Commercial department, it will give you great opportunity to bolster your career opportunities within the Commercial area of business and also grow your existing skillset.

You will be able to work under pressure and be driven to deliver objectives professionally and with a smile, so that you develop strong collaborative relationships. You will need to have a curious and active mind to be able to keep up with changing numbers, processes and targets and be open to continuous on-the-job development either through formal opportunities such as CIMA/work-based classes and informal training in the team. You will have a strong numerical ability and demonstrate a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Here's What You Can Expect To Be Doing

You will be primarily involved with delivering: bespoke Profit & Loss (P&L) analysis to support our weekly reporting, supporting the issue of the annual budget and monthly forecasts. You will also be working with other areas of the business providing ad hoc financial and operational analysis.

• Completing cost benefit analysis
• Supporting the delivery of financial and operational reporting
• Working with department managers to implement and monitor KPIs
• Communicating information with internal and external stakeholders
• Generating reports using a range of IT and database systems
• Supporting the delivery of the monthly forecast and the annual budget process

A Few Things About You

The backbone of this role will rely on the ability to work fast-paced to produce analysis & timely reporting mainly in Microsoft Excel. Strong analytical ability and openness to expand your IT ability over time are our main requirements.

Essential

• Good communication skills
• Deadline driven & the ability to manage your own workload
• Comfortable working within a busy team
• Capable of working with confidential and/or sensitive data
• Experience of working in a professional business environment (This may have been attained during University)

Desirable

• A relevant degree (Business/Finance Ideally)
• Strong Microsoft Excel Skills (A knowledge on Sumifs/Pivot tables/Lookups/Conditional Formatting )
• Willing to work towards CIMA Qualification or are already part qualified
• Experience in delivering analysis to senior management/a group of your peers
• Financial or analytical background
• Be highly numerate with a logical & analytical approach to problem solving
• Microsoft Access exposure

A Bit About Us

We may have started small, but we’ve always had very big ideas. We launched in 2000 and we just haven’t stopped; a years’ worth of achievements always seems more like three at AO.

Our customers and now our biggest advocates, and we’ve made millions of them happy. We’ve even launched in new territories throughout Europe. Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves.

But, we’re determined to be the best electrical retailer in Europe, and for that, you need to be driven. We need to be bold enough to try new things, and smart enough to see them through. We need to care about people, and we always like to have a little fun as we do it.

Why Choose AO?

It’s not about the job you need now, it’s about who you want to be and where you want go. The thing about AO is that you don’t have to leave to move on. We have the kind of environment where people learn and thrive and be the best they can be. That’s our values talking.

We empower each and every person to push the boundaries of what’s possible. We’re growing rapidly and so should you. Our environment and our culture are vibrant and engaging, you almost have to feel it to believe it.

"Our people are our biggest asset, they’re our culture: that unique, indescribable thing that makes us really different."