Strategic Finance Analyst — Projects & Reporting

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

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.