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Role: Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis
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 OfficeKey Responsibilities:
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 OfficeKey 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 business
- 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
- Previous experience with basic MS office tools, BI tools e.g. reporting tools (Cognos) and visualisation tools (Tableau) or similar
- Proven ability in developing effective working relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues
