Senior Financial Analyst

We Are TALA Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Hybrid working

Employee discount

Friends & Family discount

Clothing allowance

Gym membership

Health Shield

Enhanced parental pay

Charity match

Job summary

We Are TALA Limited in London is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to partner with business teams, turning numbers into stories that drive faster, better decisions. You will embed with Merch, Ops and finance colleagues while leading FP&A cycles and building impactful models and dashboards.

The role emphasizes proactive, commercially minded analysis, collaboration, and clear storytelling to influence senior decision-makers. Hybrid working and a strong benefits package are offered.

Qualifications

• Newly qualified in an accounting qualification such as CIMA or ACCA.
• Proactive and commercially focused mindset with ability to work independently.
• Solid understanding of FP&A processes including budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to build relationships and influence at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Act as a finance partner across the business, building relationships for understanding financial impacts of decisions.
• Collaborate across Finance, Merch and Ops to embed the IMS Cin7 and reporting on inventory, margin and availability.
• Support budget-holders through budgeting and reforecasting with realistic yet stretching numbers.
• Own regular reporting and variance analysis, identifying drivers and implications for upcoming weeks and months.
• Build and maintain models and dashboards to surface trends early and guide decisions.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis, modelling and presentations to support senior leadership.
• Lead monthly management accounts and reporting, ensuring accuracy and clarity.
• Lead Budget and reforecasting cycles and evolve budgeting processes as the business scales.

Skills

Financial analysis

Business partnering

Forecasting

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Modeling

Storytelling with data

Education

CIMA/ACCA qualification

Tools

Cin7 IMS

Excel

Job description

About the Role:

We\'re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Finance team, reporting to the Head of Finance. This isn't a role where you\'ll sit behind a spreadsheet in isolation: you\'ll be embedded with the teams you support, turning numbers into a story that helps the business make better, faster and more accurate decisions.

The best person for this role is genuinely curious about the why of the performance, not just the what. You\'ll be the person who spots that a margin dip is really a promo-mix issue, or that a strong month was carried by one channel, and can explain it in a sentence a non-finance colleague immediately understands. If you love the moment a messy dataset resolves into a clear insight, you\'ll enjoy it here.

What you\’ll be doing:

Business partnering

• Act as a finance partner across the business, building relationships that make you the first call when someone needs to understand the financial impact of a decision.

• Work across Finance, Merch and Ops to help embed the new IMS (Cin7) and bring inventory, margin and availability into effective reporting and action orientated analysis

• Support budget-holders through the budgeting and reforecasting cycle, helping them build realistic yet stretching numbers with buy in and detailed plans to achieve them.

Finding the story in the numbers

• Own regular reporting and variance analysis, going beyond the "what" to the "why", identifying the real drivers behind performance and what they mean for the weeks / months ahead.

• Build and maintain models and dashboards that surface trends early rather than confirming them late.

• Turn analysis into clear, well-designed outputs that leadership can act on.

Core FP&A

• Support the monthly management accounts and reporting pack, ensuring numbers are accurate, timely and well-explained.

• Lead Budget and reforecasting cycles that deliver against our Financial Strategy.

• Help evolve our forecasting and budgeting processes as the business scales.

• Deliver ad hoc analysis, modelling, and presentations to support senior stakeholder and executive decision‑making.

What we\’re looking for:

• Newly qualified in an accounting qualification such as CIMA or ACCA.

• A proactive and commercially focused mindset, with the ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.

• A solid understanding of FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and influence at all levels, cutting down on financial jargon to deliver best outputs and actions with the team.

What we can offer:

• 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays

• Hybrid working environment

• Very generous employee discount after probation period

• Nominated Friends & Family Discount

• Clothing allowance spending gift

• Class Pass or Gym Flex membership

• Health Shield

• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

• Charity fundraising match of up to £1,000