Finance Analyst

DESCRIPTION OF ROLE

The Finance Analyst partners closely with Finance Business Partners and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality financial planning, performance reporting, and decision support across the business. This role plays a critical part in budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and investment evaluation, translating financial and operational data into clear insights, risks, and recommendations to support profitable growth and disciplined capital allocation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with the finance business partners and key stakeholders to produce the annual budget and reforecasts including commentary for regular business review. Highlight future risks and opportunities in the rolling forecasts.

• Prepare the weekly, monthly, quarterly category and store performance business review, regular variance analysis with actionable insights using the digital tools, market insights. Align with accounting services and finance controllers to ensure month-end landing numbers are accurate and investigate material variances versus forecast.

• Support the REC process for property expansion plan, lease renewals by performing the financial modelling and scenario analyses, challenge business assumptions and make recommendation, track post-performance and highlight key learnings.

• Partner with Accounting Services and key stakeholders to ensure month-end landing numbers are accurate and investigate and explain material variances.

• Support ad-hoc analysis and management reporting, generating actionable insights and business recommendations to drive end-to-end profitability improvement through financial modelling of both financial and non-financial data (e.g. market trends, profitability, cost, and efficiency analysis).

• Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and digitalization to enhance efficiency, data quality, and effectiveness in performance management and reporting.

• Ensure a strong focus on data accuracy, governance, and documentation to support decision-making and internal controls.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.

• Professional certification (e.g., ACCA, CPA, CIMA) is an advantage.

• At least 2 years of experience in finance roles, preferably in the retail industry

• Advanced Excel skills and data-handling abilities.

• Demonstrates strong stakeholder management skills and is confident presenting insights and recommendations to senior management.

• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.