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Senior Finance Analyst

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Senior Finance Analyst

Job Introduction

Selfridges is a social centre where everyone is welcome. We surprise, amaze and amuse our customers everyday by doing the unexpected, celebrating those special moments and inspiring one another. We are the destination for the most extraordinary customer experience unrivalled with products and services ranging from high street to high end.

 

This role is to support the Senior Finance Manager in providing effective financial challenge and support to their business partners. This will be achieved via the production of timely and accurate financial information which can be used by the finance team to support business partners with performance review and informed decision making to drive business profitability.

As well as production of the financial information the role is expected to have a strong understanding of key drivers, provide insight via variance analysis and highlighting and sharing clearly associated risks and opportunities. The role also needs to support the senior finance manager in the production and completion of all budgeting and forecasting deliverables.

Role Responsibility

Based in our Wigmore Street offices you’ll provide a unique and tailored service in Finance to customers internally and externally, going beyond the ordinary to create memorable interactions and deliver. Our customers expect extraordinary service delivered by people with a genuine passion for what they do and to share their unparalleled level of knowledge whilst taking enormous pride in maintaining our exceptionally high standards.

You will use your natural curiosity to stay ahead of the latest trends by taking every opportunity to expand your knowledge

 

Key Responsibilities

  • To produce timely information for sales, margin, costs and stock as appropriate
  • To identify risks and opportunities relating to sales, margin, costs and stock as appropriate
  • To contribute to the month end routines of the management accounts
  • To provide detailed and clear analysis on trading performance including recommendations to aid improvement.
  • To undertake analysis for potential initiatives using financial modelling techniques
  • Provide quality insight to performance via clear and concise commentary
  • To become familiar with and report on KPIs highlighting risks and opportunities
  • To support the budgeting and forecasting process.
  • To analyse financial proposals and monitor and report on performance and return
  • To assess the possible cost and return on promotions / events both prior to and after delivery

 

As a Senior Finance Analyst you will be accountable for all aspects of the department: by managing and leading your team confidently to deliver an extraordinary customer experience. Underpinning this is the ability to promote the company values, to lead the team to live them and exceed individual and departmental indicators

This is a thrilling opportunity and when you consider all of the exciting new projects we have coming up this year, this role will take you on a journey. Developing relationships and driving commercial focus in your team, you’ll be confident in setting the direction required to enable great performance.

The Ideal Candidate

Your passion and confidence will set you apart and while consulting with the wider business you’ll take real pride in delivering a personalised and professional service. You’ll have genuine passion for finance inside and out with a natural curiosity to discover and explore more about Finance to share with others. Bringing your personality to the service experience you will always look to genuinely connect with your customers while thinking creatively to bring your ideas to life.

 

Person Specification

 

Experience

  • FMCG experience, preferably in retail

 

Technical Skills

  • Recognised accountancy qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA), up to 1 year post qualified experience

 

Personal Attributes/ Behavioural Skills

  • High standard of accuracy with financial and statistical data
  • Able to organise own work and to take initiative
  • Resilient and able to manage a complex workload
  • Commercially aware
  • Customer focused
  • Good communication/ interpersonal and influencing skills
  • Experience of computerised accounting packages
  • Advanced Excel skills and computer literate in other core applications
  • Flexible and open to change
  • Proactive
  • Good team player

About the Company

We are a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.

We have challenged the rules of retail from day one, whilst demonstrating our unwavering commitment to sustainability.  In 2016, we were the first to be awarded with recognition for the ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. We are also recognised as the Best Department Store in the World (2010, 2012, 2014 & 2018) underlining our place at the forefront of retail. In 2018 we were recognised as a LinkedIn Top Company to work for.

Our vision is to be the destination for the most extraordinary customer experience, and our people are central to us achieving this.  As an employer we are committed to making Selfridges an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work

Selfridges

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