Financial Analyst
Role Overview
The Financial Analyst supports financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and business decision-making.
The role builds and maintains financial models, automates reporting, develops dashboards, and provides actionable insights to senior stakeholders.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Financial Analyst supports financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and business decision-making.
The role builds and maintains financial models, automates reporting, develops dashboards, and provides actionable insights to senior stakeholders.
Key accountabilities
- Build and maintain financial models, reporting systems, and planning tools using Excel, Power BI, or other relevant tools.
- Streamline reporting and planning processes, reduce manual work, and drive automation, including use of AI.
- Prepare reporting packs and commentary for senior leaders on financial performance, trends, and operational drivers.
- Design and maintain financial dashboards, KPIs, and metrics for Group performance monitoring.
- Support investment decisions, efficiency initiatives, strategic projects, wider finance modelling, and ad hoc leadership requests.
- Promote reporting and planning best practice and consistent standards across the team.
- Serve as the finance team’s Excel, Power BI, and AI superuser and upskill team members.
- Document models, maintain appropriate checks and protections, support model integrity, and contribute to data governance.
Essential requirements
- Previous financial modelling and reporting experience focused on automation and continuous improvement.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong Power BI development experience.
- Experience building financial and operational models and working with large datasets and data warehouses.
- Curiosity about AI capabilities and willingness to develop those skills.
- Excellent commercial and analytical skills, plus data visualisation and storytelling capability.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Desirable experience and education
- Previous FP&A experience is desirable.
- Retail or multi-site experience is desirable.
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, mathematics, business, or a related subject is desirable.
Benefits and working environment
- Benefits include a company bonus of up to 25% of base salary, staff discount, pension, life assurance, and holiday allowance that increases with service.
- The employer mentions flexible working, free on-site parking, product and service discounts, development plans, and training.
About the company
Topps Tiles describes its Leicester support office as home to finance, marketing, buying, central operations, HR, property, customer service, and IT teams.
The company says it achieved a 20% market share goal in 2023 and has launched Mission 365, targeting £365 million in sales.
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