Finance Analyst (Fixed Term Contract)

Moneysupermarket Group; Ewloe; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is searching for a Finance Analyst to join their dynamic Commercial Finance team. In this pivotal role, you'll provide key insights that drive commercial success and support strategic decisions across the organization. Your analytical expertise will help optimize performance and achieve ambitious growth targets. The position offers a collaborative environment where you can thrive, working closely with senior leaders. If you're passionate about making a significant impact in a fast-paced setting and are eager to contribute to a mission of helping households save money, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Up to 30 days holiday

Bonus

Enhanced parental leave

Supportive culture tools

Qualifications

• Proven experience in supporting business cases with actionable financial insights.
• Expertly explore and analyze performance data to uncover key trends.

Responsibilities

• Deliver detailed insights into performance and its drivers.
• Lead quarterly re-forecast and budget planning processes.

Skills

Analytical Expertise

Financial Insight

Strategic Influence

Relationship Building

Commercial Competence

Customer Focus

Education

ACCA

CIMA

CA/ACA

Tools

Anaplan

Tableau

Job description

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Finance Analyst (Fixed Term Contract)

Apply locations Ewloe London time type Full time posted on Posted 10 Days Ago job requisition id REQ-3450

• Hybrid working: we spend 2 days together a week, with this role based in either our Ewloe or London offices.
• Please note that this is a Fixed Term Contract, covering for one of our colleagues who is away on Parental leave.

Join Our Dynamic Commercial Finance Team!

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment? Our Commercial Finance team is crucial to our success, partnering across the Group to deliver detailed planning and forecasting. We drive commercial success and fulfil our mission of helping every household make the most of their money.

Why Our Role?

As a Finance Analyst, you will be a key player within the customer and insurance functions. You'll provide invaluable support (and challenge!) on all key decisions, delivering detailed insights into performance and its drivers. Your role will help optimise performance and achieve ambitious growth targets.

What You'll Do:

• Impactful Work: Your insights will directly influence key decisions and drive our commercial success.
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with senior leaders and their teams, becoming a trusted advisor.
• Growth Opportunities: Help us achieve our growth targets and be part of our exciting journey.

What can you expect in the role?

Trading Process: Operate robust trading processes to deliver insights and drive commercial performance. Keep Customer and Insure teams informed of financial performance through key performance indicators. Coordinate cross-vertical marketing initiatives and continuously improve trading insights with Data and BI teams.

Decision Support: Act as a strategic partner to drive value creation and growth, support customer propositions like MSM SuperSaveClub, and develop business cases for key projects. Conduct insightful post-investment reviews.

Budgeting and Forecasting: Lead quarterly re-forecast and budget planning processes, deliver detailed in-month forecasting, and provide insightful analysis and commentary.

Processes and Continuous Improvement: Manage controls over commercial decisions and planning, drive continuous improvement in reporting and forecasting, ensure data integrity, and innovate finance processes.

Management Accounting: Review management accounts for commercial reasonableness and significant judgements impacting commercial results.

What we're looking for in this role:

• Thrives in a Fast-Paced Environment: Excel in a fast paced, dynamic digital business.
• Professional Qualifications: ACCA, CIMA, CA/ACA, or equivalent experience.
• Analytical Expertise: Expertly explore and analyse performance data to uncover key trends without getting lost in complexity.
• Strategic Influence: Identify key commercial levers and influence solutions at senior levels, both financial and non-financial.
• Financial Insight: Proven experience in supporting business cases with actionable financial insights.
• Relationship Builder: Naturally build strong working relationships as a trusted adviser, challenging and developing critical thinking.
• Decision-Maker: Comfortable with challenging complex, data-driven decisions.
• Commercial Competence: Astute in identifying, understanding, and mitigating risks.
• Customer Focus: Dedicated to ensuring outstanding outcomes for our customers.

It would be a huge advantage if you have:

• Industry Experience: Experience in retail or online business.
• Financial Planning: Familiarity with driver-based financial planning (Anaplan preferred).
• BI Tools Proficiency: Confident with Business Intelligence tools like Tableau and understanding of data architecture.

Our benefits include up to 30 days holiday, a bonus, enhanced parental leave, and tools that empower our supportive culture. You can find a full list here.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.

Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at [e-mail]