Finance Analyst – FP & A

Join a dynamic retail business as a Finance Analyst, where you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring accurate and timely month-end accounts with insightful commentary. You’ll work closely with commercial teams to provide accurate spend forecasts, explain variances, and challenge areas of responsibility in the P&L. Your duties will include financial analysis to support decision-making, maintaining spend monitoring systems, and producing variance explanations for period-end accounts. You’ll also be involved in product, activity, and customer profitability analysis, and ensure adherence to planning timetables and operational processes. Additionally, you’ll manage budget and forecast reconciliations, and operate models to produce sales and spend numbers in line with KPIs. Working directly with the Head of FP & A and alongside a variety of senior stakeholders across the business; your role will blend both the financial and commercial elements of finance including: Ensure accurate & timely month end accounts with insightful commentary. To include balance sheet reconciliations – highlighting risks and opportunities. Pro-actively work with commercial teams to ensure spend forecasts are accurate & provided in a timely manner with variances clearly explained. Understand and challenge areas of responsibility in the P&L. Provide accurate financial analysis to aid commercial decision making, and dealing with adhoc requests. Maintain schedules & systems for monitoring spend and adhere to processes: For example: PO system & spend tracker. Produce and explain variance in period end accounts in commercial areas of the business. Specific involvement with product, activity and customer profitability. Understand and agree timetable with planning team, ensuring that stakeholders understand deadlines and expectations. Complete relevant templates for finance planning managers to review in conjunction with forecast / budget submissions. Complete relevant templates to other business units to enable operational planning and financial recharges. Operate models in conjunction with agreed KPI’s and planned activities to ensure sales and spend numbers are produced. Understand / challenge sales, margin and spend expectations. Upload & reconcile total business budgets & forecasts. This is a great opportunity for an ambitious commercially minded Accountant who wants to progress their career in a fast-paced business. You will benefit from a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as a culture that values collaboration, innovation and excellence. To be considered for this role: Strong career achievement in a similar role within a fast paced environment. You must also have strong Excel skills, excellent communication skills, and a proactive and positive attitude. If you are interested in this role, please apply now or contact Sharp Consultancy for more information.

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