Key Responsibilities Include
- Provide data to support and challenge decision making by stakeholders, and drive the commercial success of the business
- Maintain and develop a framework of management reports & KPIs
- Carry out deep-dive investigations into variance analysis, establishing root causes and providing insights
- Maintain & develop financial models to analyse SKU prices, costs & margins
- Analyse trends in all areas of revenues, cos, opex, capex, cash flow and inventory
- Support deep-dive investigations on sales channel mix
- Support the FP&A Manager by providing periodic and on-demand analytics to facilitate strategic planning, budgeting & forecasting
Essential
- Strong IT and data skills including Microsoft applications, particularly Excel and Powerpoint
- Ideally you come from a FMCG, manufacturing or print publishing background (or similar), and have experience analysing data in a business with multiple products & SKU / inventories.
- You are able to gain analysis and insight even from imperfect information.
- Advanced Excel modelling, for example preparing budgets and modelling outcomes against sensitivities
- Experience of managing high volume transactional data and converting it into useful information for a variety of stakeholder needs
Desirable
- Ideally from a Finance background, with experience working as part of a Finance team to support effective decision making
- Experience of providing E-Commerce business analytics
- Experience of BI tools (Power BI in particular) e.g. creation of dashboards
- Experience of working as part of an international team, partnering to develop and align reporting standards, KPIs & analysis and able to adapt your communication style to build effective working relationships cross-border and when working remotely
Your Style & Approach
- Willing to work as part of a smaller organisation where you can have an impact through the introduction of new tools and using your initiative to solve problems and create new standards
- Able to adapt communication style to engage with stakeholders with differing levels of commercial and financial knowledge, at all levels of the business
- Strong organisational and planning skills
- Able to assert your views in a meeting and take a ‘support and challenge’ approach with stakeholders
- Able to rapidly build your understanding of our business context and tailor solutions
- Ability to identify reporting & analysis weaknesses, prioritising and implementing fixes and improvements in the short-term and medium-term.
- High integrity, personable, approachable, team player.
- Strong communication skills and able to foster good relationships.
- You bring a strong attention to detail; methodical approach to data analysis and are able to double-check your own work
The Team
You will report directly to the FP&A Manager, working with colleagues from across the European Finance team based in the Bury St Edmunds office and in offices in the Netherlands and Italy
Place of Work and Hours
- This role is based in our Bury St Edmunds Offices and Distribution Centre (Suffolk, IP33 3YB)
- The hours for this role are 09.00 – 17.30, Monday – Friday (total 37.5 hours per week)
- We currently offer hybrid working in this role (3 days in the office with the flexibility to work from home up to 2 days a week in agreement with your manager)
We offer
- 25 days holiday allowance plus 8 Bank Holidays (total 33 days)
- An Employee Discount on our products sold through musicroom.com
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme (5% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution)
- An Employee Assistance Program is available for all employees and their families. As well as being a confidential support line, it also offers practical financial and life management advice 24/7
- Should you require any reasonable adjustments to enable your participation in the application process, please contact us via Indeed.
How to Apply
All candidates are required to submit a CV and covering letter to careers@halleonardeurope.com.