Commercial Finance Analyst

Posted 10 March 2023
Salary £35000 - £40000 per annum, Benefits: Study support
LocationAccrington
Discipline Qualified Finance
ReferenceKG/6821/CFA
Contact NameKathryn Goulding

Job description

Axon Moore are partnering with a growing PE Backed e-commerce business in the Blackburn area to recruit a part qualified Commercial Finance Analyst. You will join a successful and supportive commercial team, and be a pivotal part of the future growth of the business.

This is a newly created role that will hold a high degree of autonomy with the main objective to help the business improve performance, through an effective combination of business partnering and analytical skills.

Responsibilities include but will not be limited to:
  • Provision of coherent, concise reporting of trading performance vs financial and non-financial KPIs across various channels, with key drivers understood.
  • Supporting the business to critically analyse performance of the operations whilst providing an appropriate level of challenge.
  • Building strong working relationships with operational leaders and using commercial skills to identify opportunities for operational improvements.
  • Provide financial modelling for business cases and initiatives.
  • Working with business areas to critically evaluate our ability to meet targets in the short-medium term, identifying areas of risk and/or opportunity.
  • Trend analysis, financial risk/benefit modelling, sensitivity analysis and contributing to business cases for initiatives proposed.
  • Designing, building and owning a suite of dashboards and reporting tools within Tableau.

This role will suit a commercially minded, driven, ACCA/ACA/CIMA part qualified candidate who can manipulate and analyse large data sets whilst influencing stakeholders at all levels.

Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Kat Goulding on kgoulding@axonmoore.com or on 07464 598852.