Commercial Finance Analyst Job Description Job Title: Commercial Finance Analyst Location: Leicestershire Salary: Competitive plus bonus & benefits If you’ve got excellent analytical skills and the ability to present your findings in a meaningful way whilst building strong relationships, we have the perfect role for you! About the Team The Product Finance team plays a crucial role in supporting the product teams and providing vital analysis to ensure we are continually maximising profits. About the Role You will:
* Be responsible for the forecasting and budgeting of the Retail P&L from sales through to net margin.
* Maintaining & improving the Retail forecasting & budgeting model
* Budgeting for the Menswear Division Overheads
* Provide commentary on variances to forecast and prior year.
* Company wide reporting on the Mid and End of season sale performance.
* Biannually, support in the production of seasonal product group profitability that gets presented to divisional directors.
* Provide ad-hoc profitabilities to key stakeholders around the business driving business decisions
About You
* Previous experience in a similar commercial finance role and ideally working towards a professional accounting qualification.
* Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret large volumes of data in a meaningful way to non financial colleagues.
* Ability to build strong relationships with employees across multiple business areas and have excellent influencing skills.
* Strong analytical skills including using Excel and other systems to examine data.
* SQL / Power BI / Databricks would be advantageous but not essential
About Us You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global! About some of our Benefits
* 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
* Company performance based bonus
* Sharesave scheme
* On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
* 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
* Early VIP access to sale stock
* Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
* Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
* Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
* Free on-site parking
* Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
* Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
* Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
* Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
* Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change. We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.