Join a dynamic retail business as a Finance Analyst, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring accurate and timely month-end accounts with insightful commentary.

You'll work closely with commercial teams to provide accurate spend forecasts, explain variances, and challenge areas of responsibility in the P&L. Your duties will include financial analysis to support decision-making, maintaining spend monitoring systems, and producing variance explanations for period-end accounts.

You'll also be involved in product, activity, and customer profitability analysis, and ensure adherence to planning timetables and operational processes. Additionally, you'll manage budget and forecast reconciliations, and operate models to produce sales and spend numbers in line with KPIs.

Working directly with the Head of FP & A and alongside a variety of senior stakeholders across the business; your role will blend both the financial and commercial elements of finance including:

* Ensure accurate & timely month end accounts with insightful commentary. To include balance sheet reconciliations - highlighting risks and opportunities

* Pro-actively work with commercial teams to ensure spend forecasts are accurate & provided in a timely manner with variances clearly explained

* Understand and challenge areas of responsibility in the P&L.

* Provide accurate financial analysis to aid commercial decision making, and dealing with adhoc requests

* Schedules & systems for monitoring spend maintained & processes adhered to: For example: PO system & spend tracker

* Produce and explain variance in period end accounts in commercial areas of the business

* Specific involvement with product, activity and customer profitability

* Understand and agree timetable with planning team, ensuring that stakeholders understand deadlines and expectations

* Complete relevant templates for finance planning managers to review in conjunction with forecast / budget submissions.

* Complete relevant templates to other business units to enable operational planning and financial recharges

* Operate models in conjunction with agreed KPI's and planned activities to ensure sales and spend numbers are produced

* Understand / challenge sales, margin and spend expectations

* Upload & reconcile total business budgets & forecasts

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious commercially minded Accountant who wants to progress their career in a fast-paced business. You will benefit from a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as a culture that values collaboration, innovation and excellence.

To be considered for this role:

* Strong career achievement in a similar role within a fast paced environment.

* You must also have strong Excel skills, excellent communication skills, and a proactive and positive attitude.

If you are interested in this role, please apply now or contact Sharp Consultancy for more information.

Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e-mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within seven days, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful