Assistant Finance Analyst - Marketing

Next; Leicester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retail company is seeking an Assistant Finance Analyst to join its Commercial Finance team in Leicester. This unique role merges finance with marketing, allowing the successful candidate to influence marketing investments across the UK and international markets. Responsibilities include supporting key marketing teams, financial appraisals, budgeting, and managing costs. Ideal candidates will have a relevant finance qualification and strong analytical skills.

Benefits

25% off most products

Company performance based bonus

Access to on-site nursery

Discounts at partner brands

Early access to sale stock

Access to health and wellbeing services

Flexible gym membership

Qualifications

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification preferred.
• Strong Excel skills for data analysis and modeling.
• Ability to communicate financial information to non-financial stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support marketing teams with financial insights.
• Monitor advertising performance and assess ROI.
• Perform cash flow and NPV calculations for marketing investments.

Skills

Excel

Time Management

Organisational Skills

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or part-qualified

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Assistant Finance Analyst - Marketing
Location: Leicester - Enderby, Next Head Office
Salary: From £35,000 plus bonus & benefits

Are you a numbers person who's also excited by creativity, branding, and campaign impact? We're looking for an Assistant Finance Analyst to join our fast-paced Commercial Finance team, where you'll partner closely with our high-profile Digital Marketing team and support Retail and Creation Marketing too.

This role sits at the intersection of finance and marketing, giving you a unique opportunity to influence how we invest in marketing across the UK, International markets, and our growing Total Platform client base. You'll play a key part in shaping how we evaluate, measure, and optimise our marketing spend-bringing insight and accountability to an area of the business that continues to grow in both importance and investment.
What You'll Be Doing:

• Support Key Marketing Teams: Work alongside Digital, In-Store and Creation Marketing teams to understand costs, provide financial insight, and assess opportunities.
• Weekly Campaign Review: Monitor UK and international digital marketing performance, helping assess ROI and optimise spend.
• Cost Centre Reviews: Meet regularly with stakeholders to review performance, understand variances to forecast, and offer insight.
• Financial Appraisals: Run cash flow and NPV models for weekly and ad hoc marketing investments.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Take part in monthly forecasts and twice-yearly budgeting-pulling together information, analysing results, and preparing for Director-level discussions.
• Balance Sheet Work: Manage and reconcile key marketing balances with supporting documentation and analysis.
• International Support: Partner with our growing international marketing team to ensure accurate project costing and strategic support.
• Retail & Creation Marketing: Track campaign and shoot costs, ensuring they're accounted for correctly and aligned to forecasts.
• Ad Hoc Projects: Investigate and respond to finance queries from across the business.

What We're Looking For:

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or part-qualified (more than just exemptions)
• Strong Excel skills-confident working with data and building models
• Someone who can interpret and explain financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
• Excellent time management and organisation skills-you'll be juggling a busy workload with competing deadlines
• A self-starter who's comfortable working independently and taking the initiative

This is a great opportunity to develop your finance career while gaining hands-on experience in one of the most commercially influential areas of our business. If you're curious, collaborative, and want to work at the heart of where financial insight meets creative strategy, we'd love to hear from you.

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About Us

You know Next, but did you know we're a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We're the UK's 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we're the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it's now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we've gone global!

About the Team

• 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
• Company performance based bonus
• Sharesave scheme
• On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
• 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
• Early VIP access to sale stock
• Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
• Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
• Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
• Free on-site parking
• Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
• Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
• Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
• Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
• Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email [e-mail] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.