FP&A Analyst

FP&A Analyst

Purpose of role: Working in the FP&A team, this role will support with financial modelling and planning used for executive decision making. The successful candidate will be skilled in performance and variance analysis and play a key role in generating insight for the commercial teams.  

Reports to: FP&A Manager

Location: Dublin Head Office

Key Responsibilities:

• As an analyst in a fast-paced, expanding retail business you will be a valuable member of the FP&A Team

• Build and manage financial models

• Support with the submission of budgets and forecasts to ABF ensuring inputs are managed in an accurate, efficient manner to all levels of the organisation

• Provide in-depth analysis on business performance, working closely with the FP&A managers to emphasises the implications of the numbers and suggested actions

• Support in the development of the operating and financial plan

• Work closely with your team to support and examine operating performance, helping to advise on management decisions

• Ability to work across various stakeholders within the business and bring knowledge from various sources to support with the insights

• Work collaboratively across different finance teams, particularly the reporting and financial business partnering teams

• Ad-hoc analysis as required by the busines

  Essential knowledge, skills and capabilities:

• Detail-oriented and numerically savvy

• Ability to build relationships and engage with a number of business stakeholders

• Storytelling and communication skills (written and verbal)

• Strong statistical modelling skills e.g. regression, correlation, etc

• Data mining & predictive modelling skills

• Financial and analytical acumen with the ability to interrogate large data sets and come to sound, logical recommendations & conclusions

• Planning and organisation skills, ability to plan and prioritise work schedule and work within agreed timescales

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and pro-actively
  
  Successful candidates will meet the following criteria (Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree +

• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent)

• Previous FP&A experience in a fast-paced environment / retail / FMCG

• Experience working in a large organisation with multi-currency and multi-national exposure is preferable

• Strong work ethic with a passion for financial analysis and reporting

• Very comfortable dealing with large quantities of data, and summarising the insights in well-presented charts and tables

• Experience with data mining and predictive modelling tools e.g. R, Pyton

• Previous experience with basic MS office tools, BI tools e.g. reporting tools (Cognos) and visualisation tools (Tableau) or similar

• Experience with, SQL and Alteryx or similar tools

• Proven ability in developing effective working relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues