As our Business Partnering Analyst you will provide support to the financial business partnering team in developing insights to enable decision making in the company. You will work with leadership and key stakeholders, the finance business partnering team support, advise and critically challenges strategic and operational decision making across the business bringing analytical, commercial and strategic insights to drive performance and value creation.

Example areas of where the business partnering team spend their time include Business Strategy & Planning, Property & New Markets and Operational & Tactical Activities. Although you will naturally spend more time focused on specific areas and opportunities, the expectation is that you will work in an agile nature in providing support across focus activities on the team.

Whats involved?

You will use an analytical data-driven approach to provide insight and challenge, and partnering with the organisation to drive business performance and value

Support the Senior Finance Business Partners in presenting analysis and recommendations for future strategies in their areas, ensuring best practices and process standardisation to activities like business cases

Work closely with key stakeholders to understand & act upon business requirements

Work collaboratively across different finance teams, particularly the strategic finance and FP&A teams

Work closely with FP&A to provide analytical expertise, insights and intelligence to so that it can be understood and used to manage and grow the business whilst making sound financial decisions

Understand our customers and our competitors, while keeping up to date with commercial trends

Assist with the development of the business cases supporting financial and analytical deliverables

What We're looking for:

Educated to a degree level+ and likely to be a qualified accountant with 3+ years PQE

Project experience or experience of working in a fast-paced environment / retail / FMC

A critical thinker who asks the right questions and is strong in the ‘what if’

Ability to build relationships across stakeholders, be commercially aware and numerically savvy

Storytelling and communication skills and comfortable working cross-functionally throughout the business

Commercial instinct with the ability to quickly understand the implications of a situation on our commercial performance, incorporate this into an analysis and communicate it effectively.

Ability to collect, process & perform data analyses using a number of BI tools with strong skills in data interrogation across financial & non-financial data

Effective planning and organisation skills, ability to plan and prioritise work schedule and work within agreed timescales

Ability to identify risks & opportunities with the confidence to present solutions in a methodical manner

Ability to work in an agile environment with ad-hoc, project-based activities