Senior Financial Analyst

Location: Uxbridge (Hybrid) – 3 days per week in the office (Monday, Wednesday & Thursday)

PLEASE NOTE: This role will require full UK right to work as this role is not sponsored.

At Gallo, we’re proud to be one of the world’s leading wine and drinks businesses – combining scale, heritage and world‑class brands with a genuine entrepreneurial spirit. As our portfolio continues to evolve, we’re seeking a commercially minded Senior Financial Analyst to provide strategic financial insight, support key business decisions, and play a hands‑on role in shaping performance across an expanding and dynamic portfolio.

The Role

• Supports the Management team with insightful analysis.
• Supports EMEA country managers in commercial analysis.
• Develops and maintains accurate SKU profitability models.
• Responsible for the New Product Development process (NPD), which includes: pulling together Stage Gate financial analysis to support proposals, applying skills to ensure the analysis clearly reflects the proposition and challenging assumptions.
• Ensures timely and accurate analysis of business performance ensuring management has full understanding of key drivers and advising on actions to improve.
• Works closely with Sales and Marketing managers to shape business decision making in early stages, while challenging assumptions to improve decision quality.
• Creates financial models to predict future performance as required.
• Leads the creation of tools that transform data from systems into information that drives management decisions.
• Manipulates, analyses and interprets complex data sets ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and meet the business need.
• Maintains strong understanding of short and long-term demand drivers, provides support in the development of business opportunities, adding financial and commercial knowledge to discussions as appropriate.
• Supports annual operating plan and forecasting cycles with relevant understanding of markets trends, risks and opportunities. Challenges outputs.
• Prepares monthly promotional accrual for their relevant markets.
• Prepares and reviews calculations for monthly promotional costs.
• Reviews Gross Margin components for unusual/inconsistent items.
• Participates in the Capital analysis including UK and European DSO, and Inventory Days.
• Supports month end close process through review of performance (in particular country P&Ls and PVMs).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance plus 5 years of FMCG finance experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility and experience working in a Multi-National Corporation.
• Qualified Accountant or MBA.
• Skilled in MS Excel.
• Experience in retrieving data from AO and writing clear reports providing business insight preferred.
• Skilled in reading, analyzing, and interpreting general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Demonstrates a sound understanding of the accounting practice.
• Knowledgeable of the regulatory framework and compliance issues impacting the organization within multiple countries around Europe.

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