Job Description
Finance Analyst – FTC up to 6 months
FGH Business Centre 66-70 Vicar Ln, Bradford BD1 5AJ
Hybrid flexibility – 2 office days per week
ABOUT THE ROLE
To provide reporting, planning and analytical support to the Finance Team and the wider business teams to aid financial control and decision making whether for trading, financial services, marketing, operational or support functions.
MONTH END ROUTINES & CONTROLS
- Ensure accurate & timely month end accounts with insightful commentary. To include balance sheet reconciliations, highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Pro-actively work with business functions / departments to ensure schedules – whether income, margin, cost or commitment are accurate & provided in a timely manner with variances clearly explained.
- Schedules & systems for monitoring spend maintained & processes adhered to: For example: PO system & spend tracker
- Understand and produce schedules and period end journal for business functions
- Produce and explain variance analysis for month end and planning
- Being comfortable creating and delivering presentation of financial information to budget holders
- Understand and challenge areas of responsibility in the P&L
DECISION SUPPORT
- Provide accurate financial analysis to aid commercial decision making, and dealing with adhoc requests
- Support business case production and project accounting
FORECASTS & PLANNING
- Understand and agree timetable with FP&A ensuring that stakeholders understand deadlines and expectations
- Update/maintain forecast models in conjunction with agreed assumptions and planned activities
- Understand / challenge forecast assumptions and impact on business P&L
- Complete relevant templates to other business units to enable operational planning and financial recharges – being confident in the information provided and prepared to field challenge.
- Upload & reconcile total business budgets / forecasts to D365
BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE & SUPPLEMENTARY
- Build business relationships to ensure objectives achieved
- Inquisitive approach to problem solving
- Deputise for Managers where appropriate
- Attend and contribute to cost and income planning / actuals meetings ensuring pre information provided and deadlines met
ABOUT YOU
- Able to commute to Bradford City Centre min 2 days per week
- Strong user of Word, Excel- able to set up tables, spreadsheets, graphs etc (S)
- Basic commercial understanding of business and retailing. (K)
- Studying/aiming towards a professional accountancy qualification
- Retail experience preferable – but certainly some understanding of the challenges & KPI’s in managing a retail business
- Understanding of the importance of the accuracy of the detail that underpins management accounts
- Commercial awareness - the ability to apply that understanding to the role’s requirements.
- Ability to persuade other people to an objective point of view
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to communicate written & oral financial information clearly & concisely to all levels of personnel – providing summaries which facilitate a clear interpretation of the detail and enable quick decision making
- Strong Excel and reporting skills, including modelling and visual basic.
- Ability to deliver to strict reporting deadlines whilst maintaining accuracy
- General ledger experience
ABOUT US
FGH Finance
As a growing business innovating in a number of sectors, Finance plays a crucial role in the success of FGH, providing robust processes and ensuring that business decisions are made on the soundest possible management information.
Based in West Yorkshire and part of the OTTO group – one of the world’s largest online retail organisations, Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is the home of familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan, Kaleidoscope, and Curvissa.
For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We’ve accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital-first retailer.
With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward-thinking, tech-driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible and affordable for everyone.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
FLEXIBILITY
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working options to help you achieve a healthy work – life balance. Our full time head office colleagues work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office, allowing the perfect balance between collaborative in-person team work and the flexibility to work from home.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Turning your job into a career is a real passion for us and our development programmes will enable you to grow in role.
We offer clear career pathways that will show you the way, outlining the skills, behaviours and knowledge needed to perform at the next step.
We invest in our colleagues, giving them all the opportunity to progress. Our inspired leadership programme is aimed at equipping our future leaders to coach, develop, manage change and maintain situational awareness.
INCLUSIVITY
As a business, we depend on a fusion of identities, characteristics, backgrounds, and cultures to fully appreciate our people and our customers. Freemans has a long-standing commitment to ensuring fairness and balance.
Our company is an inclusive organisation where everybody can make the most of their talent and abilities. Our pay, reward, and progression approach is based solely on fairness and merit.
Our values and policies ensure that all colleagues receive fair and equitable treatment. We work hard to attract the very best talent, develop our workforce and create a culture of fairness and integrity for all.
BENEFITS
We firmly believe that we should reward our brilliant people with extensive benefits to help them stay healthy, relax and re-energise, have fun, manage the day-to-day and plan for the future. Here are just some of our great benefits:
- Competitive salaries and annual bonus scheme
- 37 Days holiday, inclusive of bank holidays
- Healthcare cash plan
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Paid paternity and maternity leave
- Incredible staff discounts
- Subsidised Canteen
Ready to apply?
If you’re excited about this opportunity and want to join FGH, click apply now to send us your application.
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