Finance Analyst- Maternity Cover

Central England Coop; Lichfield; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative co-operative society is seeking a Finance Analyst to join their dynamic Financial Performance team. This exciting fixed-term role involves supporting business areas through detailed financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. You'll play a crucial part in shaping the financial future of a rapidly evolving organization, providing insights that drive performance and strategic decision-making. With a hybrid working model, you'll enjoy the flexibility of working both in the office and from home. Join a team where your contributions matter and be part of a mission to create a sustainable society while advancing your finance career.

Benefits

Colleague Discount

Retail Discounts

Holiday Buy

Colleague Recognition

Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Colleague Dividend

Paid Time for Volunteering

Healthcare Cashplan

Company Pension

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Experience in budgeting and forecasting is essential.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen required.

Responsibilities

• Support and challenge business performance through analysis.
• Produce reports highlighting key learnings and trends.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Commercial Acumen

Financial Analysis

Communication Skills

Excel Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

Qualified Accountant

Part-Qualified Accountant

Tools

Excel

Job description

What will you be doing?

We're looking for a commercial minded Finance Analyst to join our progressive Financial Performance team, supporting our business areas, during what is an exciting time to join a rapidly changing business and help shape its future direction. This is a fixed term contract to cover Maternity leave.

In this varied role, you'll be supporting, challenging, reviewing and interpreting the performance of our business.

You'll help forecast spend and provide analysis and performance insights to support the Senior Finance team and corresponding Business areas.

Identifying and analysing key business revenue and costs drivers, you'll also assist in the analysis and reporting of progress against strategic priorities. This will help enable you to support and challenge the business in driving performance.

You'll be involved in the production of post investment review and develop reports to highlight key learnings, agreed actions and emerging trends.

This is a hybrid role, which will see you working a mixture of at our Support Centre based in the heart of Lichfield, and the remainder of the time working from home.

How will I know if I am right for this role?

• As a Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant, you'll have the ability to work using your own initiative and demonstrate a proactive approach to issue resolution.
• You'll be experienced with budgeting and forecasting but have the enthusiasm and aspiration to grow your finance career.
• You'll demonstrate strong commercial and financial acumen, understanding the key sales and profitability drivers.
• You must be able to challenge current practice and processes.
• Bringing your eye for detail, you'll always be looking to make improvements and do things better.
• As well as being organised and able to deliver to deadlines, you'll have strong excel skills and experience in manipulating large data quantities with a track record in providing high quality insight and analysis.
• As a person you will be confident with strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and able to work collaboratively with colleagues across the business.

This is a unique opportunity for someone looking to grow and develop their professional finance career whilst making a positive impact and being involved in both ongoing commercial decision support as well as key project support.

What is in it for me?

In addition to our competitive salaries, our colleagues also benefit from:

• Fantastic colleague discount- including a discount of up to 20% on our products.
• Retail discounts- our hub offers colleagues access to hundreds of exclusive retail discounts, savings on days out and holiday discounts.
• Holiday buy- colleagues can buy up to a week extra of annual leave each year.
• Colleague recognition- we celebrate our colleague's achievements both personally and professionally.
• Enhanced family friendly policies- to help you feel fully supported during any significant life events.
• Colleague Dividend- We pay a share of our profits to eligible colleagues as a thank you for their contribution to our success.
• Paid time for volunteering- we encourage our colleagues to spend three days per year taking part in volunteering, fully paid for by us.
• Give as you earn- helping you support charities which mean something to you.
• Healthcare Cashplan- your wellbeing is important, so you've got the opportunity to contribute into a voluntary plan that helps pay towards a range of healthcare expenses.
• Company Pension- you can access a company pension scheme with us as well as access to Pension wellbeing information.
• Life Assurance- after an initial qualifying period, you'll get free life assurance cover, that pays your nominated beneficiary if you die while you're working for us.
• Personalised learning and development- with easy access to a wide range of training programmes.
• We've got you - our new colleague wellbeing campaign, making wellbeing benefits and resources accessible and relevant to the role that you do.
• iTrent Financial Wellbeing (Wagestream)- offers something for all our colleagues, whether you want to track your finances, save some money, or access up to 50% of your earned pay flexibly in a way that suits you.
• Workflex- all of our flexible working options in one place, including our 4 day working week / 9 day fortnight and hybrid working options.

To find out more about all of these plus many more reasons to join us at Central Co-op, please visit Rewards and benefits - Central Coop.

Everyone is welcome here. We're happy to make reasonable adjustments so that all our candidates can show us how they'll perform their role. There is a section in the application form where you can provide any additional information. Please use this section to include any reasonable adjustments you need, and we'll do our best to support you through our recruitment process.

Who are we?

We're Central Co-op, a Member-owned and Member-led co-operative Society.

And with us, you're not just a colleague, you're a Member. You'll own a share of the business.

You'll be able to make a positive impact in your community, joining us in our mission to create a sustainable Society, and working alongside a team of passionate people who'll help you grow.

To find out more about working for us, visit our website www.careers.coop.