Finance Analyst

Coleshill, England, United Kingdom

12/23/2024

Location

Hybrid: 1-2 days at our Support Centre

Why The Works?

🏆 10th Best Big Company to Work For 2024 - 'Best Companies'

We don’t just sell products.

We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play.

The Works. It literally means everything. And whatever your story or background, we’re all about unlocking imagination and making creativity accessible to everyone. Whether you’re engaging with customers on the frontline or supporting our colleagues behind the scenes, your impact can be profound and far-reaching.

This is more than toys and books and art supplies. This is about inspiring people to read, learn, create and play. So, with the right passion, it all starts with you.

Become a Finance Analyst

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Business Partner, this role sits within an existing commercial finance team of eight. In this key role you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making.

Your Mission

• Dedicated support to the commercial management teams, building a strong relationship with them and their teams.
• Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.
• Reporting and understanding KPIs.
• Play a key role in supporting the budgeting and forecasting process.
• Providing ad-hoc analysis and reporting to the business.
• Ownership of the monthly management accounts for areas of responsibility.
• Represent finance in commercial project working groups
  
  

Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart

The role could suit someone who is a part-qualified accountant, a graduate who holds a relevant degree, or someone with more than 2 years’ experience in a commercial finance role. As such, you will be able to demonstrate the following:

Essential:

• Motivated and self-sufficient, using initiative to be pro-active.
• Naturally inquisitive and confident to challenge both accepted assumptions and processes.
• Collaborative approach with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to liaise with and influence colleagues at all levels.
• Commercially astute with a strong desire to understand the key levers in the business, and an ability to interpret numbers into meaningful insight, and communicate to the business.
• Strong Excel and analytical skills, with attention to detail and able to work at pace under time pressure.
• Strong organisational skills, flexible and able to adapt quickly to deliver a fast turnaround on ad-hoc tasks.
  
  

Desirable:

• Experience in a retail environment or similar fast paced organisation is a clear advantage.
• Experience in using MI tools such as Cognos, TM1, Aptos.
• Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders.
• Experience of working within a commercial finance role.
  
  

Our PERKS really are ‘The Works’

• 💪 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days!
• 😎 MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more!
• 🚀 Holiday – 33 days including bank holidays.
• 💃 Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days
• 🎓 Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
• 💸 Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them – for when ‘life’ happens!
• 🏬 Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works!
• 💛 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
• 🩺 Healthcare Cash Plan – To support your everyday healthcare costs
• 🥳 And loads more! – Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving.
  
  

Our Purpose

To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled.

Our Values

We are Crafty | We are Caring | We are Can-do

We Listen. We Care

Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what’s going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you’ve ever worked! You’ll have opportunity to help give us that direction.

Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments

At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ+ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term).

We are open to discussions around working hours and flexible working. And, where possible, we'll try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments for an interview you might attend with us, let us know in your application and we’ll be happy to help!

We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play.

You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects them with a late family member’s memory.

You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark within people, allowing them to unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories.

The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you.

#Itallstartswithyou