Company Description
As a Senior Finance Analyst (15 month Maternity cover), you will play a key role in supporting the sales team to get our beer to our customers through on-trade, off-trade and digital sales. This role provides the opportunity to work in a fast-paced commercial facing role within an established forward-thinking business. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a great team on a hybrid working basis (50% office based/50% home working) from our Bury St Edmunds offices.
Join us at Greene King, the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today, our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.
Job Description
Your role as Senior Finance Analyst (15 month maternity cover)
* Provide finance business partnering support to the English & Scottish Free Trade management teams.
* Attend regional meetings monthly to provide performance updates and opportunities to Free Trade sales teams.
* Budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis.
* Manage the end-to-end Free Trade price increase process, from planning and pre-analysis through to post-implementation review.
* Prepare and publish periodic performance pack to Free Trade management team.
* Responsible for delivery of revenue and margin planning as part of annual budget & forecast cycles.
* Prepare and manage Risks & Opportunities schedule.
* Support Head of Buying in agreeing and delivering on Joint Business Plans with key partner suppliers.
* Assist Commercial Finance Manager and Head of Commercial Finance as required with ad-hoc projects.
* Manage Free Trade customer & product data to ensure accuracy of reporting & leverage insight.
What you’ll bring…
* Positive and proactive with a passion to develop personally and support company growth.
* Professional in demeanour and able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail.
* An effective communicator with the ability to build strong working relationships and present financial information to financial and non-financial management.
* Flexible and adaptable to business change.
* Problem-solving skills, including taking ownership of problems through to resolution.
* Highly motivated - able to use own initiative and as part of a team.
* Excellent planning and organisational skills.
* An excellent approach to customer service with the ability to manage expectations and conflicting priorities of key stakeholders.
* Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
* Experience working in Hospitality, Retail or FMCG is desirable.
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