Are you a part-qualified accountant who enjoys getting under the skin of the numbers, building robust analysis, and wants to develop into a genuine commercial finance business partner?
A globally recognised consumer brands business is looking for a Finance Analyst to join its EMEA Commercial Finance team.
Operating across multiple international markets and managing a portfolio of well-known consumer brands, this is a business with a strong heritage, ambitious growth plans, and a culture that genuinely invests in developing its people. You’ll be joining a high-performing commercial finance team where you’ll work closely with senior finance stakeholders and gain exposure to the decisions that drive revenue, margin and profitability across the region.
This is an excellent opportunity for a part-qualified accountant who wants to move beyond reporting and into a role where commercial insight, forecasting and business performance are central. You’ll become the analytical engine behind a major European region, owning key reporting and forecasting processes while developing the commercial understanding needed to influence decision-making over time.
What will you be doing?
- Producing weekly and monthly performance reporting across sales, margin, channel profitability and promotional activity
- Analysing customer, channel and product profitability, identifying key drivers of performance and supporting commercial discussions
- Supporting budgeting and forecasting cycles, gathering inputs, maintaining models and consolidating regional submissions
- Preparing variance analysis against budget and forecast, highlighting trends and explaining key performance drivers
- Building and maintaining customer profitability models across revenue, trade investment, cost-to-serve and margin
- Supporting analysis of promotional activity, pricing decisions and ROI to improve commercial performance
- Developing scenario modelling and what-if analysis to support planning and strategic decision-making
- Maintaining and enhancing financial models, ensuring they are robust, accurate and easy to use
- Using Excel, Power BI and ERP data to produce meaningful reporting and actionable insight
- Driving continuous improvement across reporting processes, helping improve efficiency and data quality
What would we love to see from you?
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA part-qualified
- Experience within medium to large retail/consumer businesses
- Strong grounding in reporting, forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis
- Advanced Excel skills with experience building financial models from scratch
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into meaningful insight
- Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work
- Confident communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Experience with Power BI, SAP or similar reporting tools advantageous but not essential
- Curious, proactive and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment, particularly around AI developments
Location: Central London (4 days in the office)
This vacancy is a newly created role as part of organisational changes. Final appointment will depend upon the outcome of consultation processes and affected employees will have priority for consideration.
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