Orka Financial is currently recruiting for a Financial Analyst to join a multi-site retail business in High Wycombe for a 6 month contract. The main purpose of the role is to provide profitability analysis of stores and identify trends and key metrics to help drive the business forward. This role offers hybrid working (3 days a week in the office, 2 remotely).

Working in a fast-paced Finance & Insights department, utilising market leading big data software (Alteryx and Tableau), this is a high-profile role positioned at the core of retail operations (c£310m turnover; 210 stores nationwide and >1,000 colleagues) fostering a business partnering approach to provide financial insights and support to retail decision making. You will play a crucial part in the operation – driving process understanding, budgeting, forecasting, financial appraisal, and analysis and reporting; whilst building strong relationships with key stakeholders, highlighting opportunity and risk, and driving change.

Key Responsibilities

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  Business partner to Retail team; providing analytical support, investment appraisal, Revenue/cost/contribution analysis to drive fast and relevant decision making
• Challenge and communicate across all levels of organisation, high degree of exposure to senior teams
• Prepare function specific reporting, KPI analysis, and insights into the key drivers of performance
• Build/maintain intuitive dashboards using Tableau/Alteryx; to promote automation & self-serve
• Produce qualitative and quantitative analysis including customer behaviour, industry trends, competition, spatial analytics, staffing needs etc. to recommend strategies across broad range of subjects
• Interpret and understand complex data and translating this into value driven insight
• Represent insights team, driving agenda through first class support, during budgeting/forecasting (including development of models) and month end meetings
• Gather and maintain accurate and up-to-date records of data; and remain attuned to developments in the area
• Work to tight deadlines, delivering outstanding level of credibility; reliability; completeness and accuracy

• Commercial acumen; demonstrable industry experience; vast proven analytical/dashboarding experience
• Ability to rapidly and thoroughly understand the environment in which you will operate (people, applications, technology, process), to support faster decision making
• Ability to interpret and understand data, identify trends/and patterns. working with analytical packages, with aptitude to learn new software and systems and critical thinking to provide recommendations
• Professional communication skills: ability to build strong relationships across broad level of stakeholders
• Highly motivated and resourceful, capable of working of own initiative, as individual or part of a team
• Strong planning, organising and time management skills, accuracy, and adherence to deadlines