Financial Analyst
Posted 2 weeks ago by Pure Resourcing Solutions Limited
£65,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Ponders End
Summary: The Financial Analyst role is a six-month fixed-term contract based in Enfield, focusing on supporting planning, forecasting, and decision-making within a busy retail business. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure financial plans are robust and actionable. The role is high-impact, with visibility across the organization, and involves producing insightful reports and recommendations. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and be comfortable communicating complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinating the forecasting cycle, including the Annual Plan and monthly rolling forecasts
- Owning and challenging fixed cost forecasts with finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Leading variable cost forecasting as the key finance partner to Production and Planning
- Producing clear monthly reporting, insight, and commentary for wider Finance and the business
- Identifying risks and opportunities, and influencing decisions with practical, data-led recommendations
- Supporting S&OP by challenging assumptions and aligning commercial and operational plans
- Contributing to month-end planning activities and improving forecasting processes
- Supporting and improving planning systems and BI tools (including Anaplan and dashboards)
Key Skills:
- ACCA or CIMA qualified
- Strong Excel skills and experience in forecasting, analysis, and financial modelling
- Confident communicator who can explain complex financial information clearly to non-finance teams
- Commercially minded, detail-focused, and comfortable challenging assumptions
- Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and Anaplan is desirable, but not essential
Salary (Rate): £65,000/year
City: Ponders End
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Financial Analyst – Six Month Fixed Term Contract Immediate Start – Enfield, £55-65K, Hybrid
We are looking for a commercially focused to join a busy retail business on a fixed?term contract. This is a high?impact role with visibility across the business, supporting planning, forecasting, and decision?making in a fast?growing, operationally complex environment. You will work closely with Finance, Operations, Planning and Data teams, helping turn numbers into insight and ensuring financial plans are robust, well understood, and actively used.
What you’ll be doing
- Coordinating the forecasting cycle, including the Annual Plan and monthly rolling forecasts
- Owning and challenging fixed cost forecasts with finance and non?finance stakeholders
- Leading variable cost forecasting as the key finance partner to Production and Planning
- Producing clear monthly reporting, insight, and commentary for wider Finance and the business
- Identifying risks and opportunities, and influencing decisions with practical, data?led recommendations
- Supporting S&OP by challenging assumptions and aligning commercial and operational plans
- Contributing to month?end planning activities and improving forecasting processes
- Supporting and improving planning systems and BI tools (including Anaplan and dashboards)
What we’re looking for
- ACCA or CIMA qualified
- Strong Excel skills and experience in forecasting, analysis, and financial modelling
- Confident communicator who can explain complex financial information clearly to non?finance teams
- Commercially minded, detail?focused, and comfortable challenging assumptions
- Experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and Anaplan is desirable, but not essential