Financial Planning Analyst

The Range; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Plymouth seeks a Financial Planning Analyst to support strategic financial decision-making. This role entails conducting performance analyses, developing financial models, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and proficiency in Excel. This is a permanent, full-time position with competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension

Long service awards

Employee discount

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in an analytical/commercial position.
• Ability to interpret data and make actionable recommendations.
• Comfortable working with large sets of data.

Responsibilities

• Identify drivers of revenue growth and underperformance.
• Conduct scenario analysis for commercial decisions.
• Analyze brand and product level performance.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Data proficiency

Education

Degree in an analytical/commercial field or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

SQL

Job description

We are a Sunday Times Top Track 100 company and one of the UK’s fastest growing privately owned companies. The Range has grown enormously since its inception in 1989, and now has over 200 stores nationwide. People are at the heart of our retail concept, and we want to invest in our staff and make the future extraordinary.

About the Role

The Financial Planning Analyst will support strategic financial decision making by providing analysis and reporting to guide business performance. This role is integral to budgeting, financial modelling, and variance analysis, ensuring leadership teams have clear visibility of the company’s financial position and key performance drivers.

Responsibilities

• Identify drivers of revenue growth and underperformance across time periods
• Conduct scenario analysis to support commercial decision making
• Analyze brand, store, department and product level performance across the business
• Build and maintain financial models to assess performance under various business scenarios
• Develop dashboards to communicate financial insights to senior management
• Collaborate with data teams to improve data quality, segmentation and granularity in reporting
• Support business cases and ROI analysis for new initiatives
• Work closely with finance, merchandising, and store operations teams

Person Specification

• Degree or previous experience in an analytical/commercial position
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make actionable recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to present data-driven insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively with various teams
• Able to meet deadlines and multi-task in a fast‑paced work environment
• Proactive approach to problem‑solving
• Comfortable working with large sets of data
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and willingness to learn new data visualisation and analysis tools such as Power BI & SQL

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Pension
• Long service awards
• Employee discount
• Cycle to work scheme

Position Details

• Permanent, Full-time
• Hours: Monday – Friday, 08:45am – 17:30pm.
• Location: Plymouth, Devon