Assistant Finance Analyst - Marketing

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

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is looking for an Assistant Finance Analyst in Leicester. This role involves collaborating with marketing teams to provide financial insights, managing budgets, and optimizing marketing spend. If you're passionate about finance and marketing, this is a great opportunity for you.

Benefits

25% off most NEXT products

Company performance based bonus

On-site Nursery available

Access to fantastic discounts at Staff Shops

Free on-site parking

Financial Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or part-qualified (more than just exemptions).
• Ability to interpret and explain financial information clearly.
• Self-starter comfortable working independently.

Responsibilities

• Support marketing teams by providing financial insights.
• Monitor digital marketing performance and assess ROI.
• Participate in monthly forecasts and budgeting.

Skills

Strong Excel skills

Financial insight

Excellent time management

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or part-qualified

Job description

5 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

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.

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!

Benefits

• 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.

Apply Before: 06/20/2025

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Accounting

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