Finance Analyst - Transformation

Halfords; Redditch; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (2 days on-site at Redt

Annual discretionary bonus

Pension

Life assurance

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Enhanced family leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Halfords in Redditch is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to partner with multiple transformation projects, delivering financial analysis, forecasting, and governance to drive informed decisions.

You will build and improve reporting suites, automate processes, and support month-end activities including accruals, outturns, reforecasting, and budgeting while communicating clearly to stakeholders across the business.

Qualifications

• Partner with project stakeholders and teams across multiple projects, providing financial analysis, forecasting, and governance support to help them manage performance and make informed decisions
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve reporting suites, identifying opportunities to automate manual processes and create efficiencies
• Support month end activity including accruals, outturns, reforecasting, and budgeting, ensuring financial data is accurate and clearly communicated to relevant stakeholders
• Analyse large datasets in Excel to produce clear, actionable insight, presenting financial information to non-finance stakeholders in a way that tells a coherent story
• Support the PMO and Transformation Office with day-to-day project governance, helping the business adhere to policies, processes, and documentation requirements for project finance
• Monitor and track project spend and benefits, supporting business case modelling and flagging risks and opportunities as they emerge
• Support the wider team with analysis and reporting as required, contributing to overall team objectives across a variety of business areas

Responsibilities

• Partner with project stakeholders to deliver financial analysis and governance
• Develop and improve reporting suites and automate processes
• Support month-end, accruals, outturns, and budgeting with accurate data
• Analyse large datasets in Excel and present insights clearly
• Assist PMO with project governance and documentation
• Track project spend and benefits, flag risks and opportunities
• Contribute to team objectives across business areas

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Business partnering

Data analysis

Excel advanced

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

CIMA/ACCA (in progress)

Tools

SAP

AI tools

Job description

As a Senior Finance Analyst within our Avayler and Group Functions Finance Team, you'll take on a broad and varied role that sits at the intersection of financial analysis, business partnering, and reporting improvement. You'll work closely with the business, supporting multiple active transformation projects with the financial analysis, forecasting, and governance that keeps them on track. This is very much a data and partnering focused role rather than a traditional management accounting position.

Day to day, you'll be building and improving reporting suites, automating manual processes where possible, and producing analysis that helps project stakeholders understand their numbers and what it means for decisions ahead. You'll support month end activity including accruals, outturns, reforecasting, and budgeting, and you'll present financial information clearly to non-finance audiences across multiple teams and seniority levels. The data environment isn't perfect, so you'll need to be comfortable working through ambiguity and finding solutions rather than waiting for things to be straightforward.

There's a lot of freedom to put your own stamp on how things are done. If you enjoy problem solving, building relationships across a complex business, and seeing the direct impact of your analysis on real projects and decisions, this is a role with genuine variety and the scope to improve things meaningfully. You'll have support from your manager but will need to be autonomous enough to take ownership and run with things from early on.

• Partner with project stakeholders and teams across multiple projects, providing financial analysis, forecasting, and governance support to help them manage performance and make informed decisions
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve reporting suites, identifying opportunities to automate manual processes and create efficiencies
• Support month end activity including accruals, outturns, reforecasting, and budgeting, ensuring financial data is accurate and clearly communicated to relevant stakeholders
• Analyse large datasets in Excel to produce clear, actionable insight, presenting financial information to non-finance stakeholders in a way that tells a coherent story
• Support the PMO and Transformation Office with day-to-day project governance, helping the business adhere to policies, processes, and documentation requirements for project finance
• Monitor and track project spend and benefits, supporting business case modelling and flagging risks and opportunities as they emerge
• Support the wider team with analysis and reporting as required, contributing to overall team objectives across a variety of business areas

• Working towards a professional qualification such as CIMA or ACCA, with a solid understanding of finance concepts and principles including the distinction between CAPEX and OPEX
• Proven experience in project finance or project accounting, with a good working knowledge of how capital investment and project spend is tracked and managed
• Strong Excel skills, comfortable working with large file sizes and datasets, including lookups, pivot tables, and building analytical models from scratch
• Confident presenter who can translate complex financial information into clear, accessible language for non-finance stakeholders at all levels
• Strong communicator with good stakeholder management skills, proactive enough to reach out to people across the business and build relationships without being prompted
• Comfortable working autonomously in an environment where the data isn't always clean and the answer isn't always obvious, with the initiative to find a way through
• Experience with SAP or AI tools is advantageous, as is any exposure to reporting automation or process improvement within a finance function

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience-from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you're willing to get stuck in, you'll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

At Halfords, we operate a 2 days per week on-site hybrid working policy at our Support Centre in Redditch Worcestershire.

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
• We offer hybrid working with a blend of working in our Support Centre and from home.
• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

At Halfords, we operate a 2 days per week on-site hybrid working policy at our Support Centre in Redditch Worcestershire.