Department: Commercial
Location: Head Office, Chelsea House
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Finance Analyst – Retail to join our Finance team!
The Commercial Finance Analyst is responsible for providing detailed financial analysis, insights, and support to the Retail area of the business.
This role focuses on evaluating financial performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, and helping guide key business decisions by working closely with both the finance and non‑finance teams.
Reporting to the Senior Commercial Finance Manager for Retail, key responsibilities include:
Financial Analysis and Reporting
- Own and continuously improve daily, weekly and monthly commercial reporting packs, ensuring timely and actionable insight
- Support with monthly reporting variance analysis to understand the drivers behind business performance
- Responsible for month end retail journals, including Retail month end accruals
Commercial Decision Support
- Provide decision‑making support to key commercial teams for trade decisions
- Analyse sales and profitability trends and support in producing forward‑looking view
- Ad‑hoc analysis to provide stakeholders with additional insight and inform decision making
Forecasting & Budgeting
- Support with completing accurate and timely financial forecasts and budgets
- Monitor and track business performance against financial forecasts and take corrective actions when necessary
- Supporting in providing insights into cost‑saving opportunities and efficiency improvements within the retail P&L
Stakeholder Engagement
- Ownership of monthly cost reviews with Area managers
- Partner closely with Retail Operations, Trading and wider Commercial teams to influence performance and support strategic initiatives
- Support in monthly presentations to both financial and non‑financial stakeholders
Qualifications
- Previous experience within Retail/FMCG desirable
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (or finalist considered)
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to turn data into actionable insight
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Advanced Excel skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and strong time management
- A proactive and inquisitive mindset with a strong focus on continuous improvement
- A collaborative approach and ability to build strong working relationships across the business
Benefits
- Generous 50% staff discount and a bargain staff shop on site
- Reducing expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through the Retail Trust
- A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café, and various social events throughout the year
- Support for all family setups with enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment and dedicated support through the Retail Trust
- Flexible working, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays
- Give‑as‑you‑earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and matched funding
- Support with upskilling through on‑the‑job training and qualifications, with a succession plan for progression
- A generous bonus scheme and private pension plan
- 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays, with the option to purchase additional holidays twice a year
Equal Opportunity
River Island is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio‑economic background, religion and/or belief. We consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about this interview process, check out our hiring process below.
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