Summary: The Finance Analyst role is a fixed-term contract for up to 12 months, focused on providing financial reporting, planning, and analytical support to enhance financial control and decision-making across various business functions. The position requires collaboration with different departments to ensure accurate financial schedules and variance analysis, alongside supporting commercial decision-making and operational planning. This hybrid role involves working at least two days in the office and the remainder from home.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate and timely month-end accounts with insightful commentary, including balance sheet reconciliations.
• Work with business functions to ensure accurate schedules for income, margin, cost, or commitment.
• Maintain schedules and systems for monitoring spend and adhere to processes.
• Produce and explain variance analysis for month-end and planning.
• Provide accurate financial analysis to aid commercial decision-making and support business case production.
• Update and maintain forecast models in conjunction with agreed assumptions and planned activities.
• Build business relationships to achieve objectives and contribute to planning meetings.
• Ensure compliance with UK regulations, Company Policies, and FCA Conduct Rules.

Key Skills:

• Strong user of Word and Excel, with the ability to set up tables, spreadsheets, and graphs.
• Basic commercial understanding of business and retailing.
• Studying or aiming towards a professional accountancy qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA, or ACA).
• Retail experience or understanding of retail challenges and KPIs.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to all levels of personnel.
• Strong Excel and reporting skills, including modelling and visual basic.
• General ledger experience and ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel user and basic competence in database packages.
• Power BI capability and D365 experience.
• Degree in Accounting and Finance, Management, Administration, or Marketing with an analytical leaning.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Bradford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Finance