Commercial Finance Analyst -Building and Technical

☞ B&Q

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Eastleigh South East

Category: Finance / Bank / Stock Sales

Industry: Retail

Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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Overview

Permanent

£40,000- £50,000 per annum + pension, ShareSave options & 6.6 weeks holiday

Southampton, Store Support Office

A good home for everyone. It’s what we believe in, and it’s what we make possible. From our Southampton Store Support Office, we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create the homes they want. Join us as an Commercial Finance Analyst, and you’ll help us speak to all these customers, all across the country.

At B&Q we have a hybrid approach to working to increase flexibility in when and where we work. Talk to us about what works best for you.

This role provides financial business partnering to the B&Q commercial team, providing support, advice, challenge and business insight.

What’s the job?

As a Commerical Finance Analyst, your oversight, interpretation and communication of data will help us to make the best business decisions possible. You’ll manage your own projects and solve complex problems, ensuring that timelines and business impacts are factored in. You’ll provide analytical support to the team, financial modelling of business cases, and understand how key performance insights can affect performance.

Great communication is key to success. You’ll simplify complex financial information when communicating with stakeholders and positively steer them towards the best business outcomes. Working across multiple departments, your expertise and initiative will pave a solution out of tricky or time-pressured situations. One thing’s for certain - there’s never a dull day for our Analysts.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities
  • Build relationships with key stakeholders across the business
  • Participation in the preparation process of budgets, forecasts, business plans
  • Providing ad-hoc analytics/reporting/consultations to support business decisions
  • Creating value from converting financial data into business insights.
  • Prepare slides and analysis suitable for Board and Exec level presentations
  • Work collaboratively with the wider commercial finance team to enable the team to adapt flexibly to business priorities when called upon
  • Continually improve planning and reporting processes
What We Need

You’ll own a professional accountancy qualification, such as CIMA, ACCA, ACA etc (Fully qualified).

Retail experience is desirable but not a must.

Required Skills & Experience
  • Strong analytical ability, able to turn data into data into reporting & insight and identify performance drivers
  • Able to operate under own judgement and autonomy, making recommendations and managing expectations where appropriate
  • Able to distil complex messages into key stories for non-finance stakeholders
  • Ability to influence and challenge non-finance stakeholders when there are conflicts between the business and finance agendas, being aware of and adapting behaviour based on both political and factual factors
  • Competent user of Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Able to operate in a fast paced environment with changing priorities
  • Experience of leading and delivering through others desirable
What’s in it for me?

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, car, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!

As part of a great team, you’ll be supported to grow and encouraged to explore new career directions within the business and the wider group. And, because you’ll be inspiring great things for our customers and the whole business, you’ll do work worth caring about.

Please note due to the festive period, you may not have an update on your application until early January.
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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