Finance Analyst - Retail

This role will primarily be responsible for providing business partnering and analytical support to the Retail channel.

A large part of the role will involve the ongoing production of relevant weekly and monthly business reporting and the development of various tools and templates to drive sales and manage costs. You will have a clear understanding of the retail business and utilise your finance expertise to assist the retail team in maximising business performance.

In addition, on a more ad-hoc basis, you may also be required to provide a high level of commercial and analytical support on a range of matters such as conducting shop profitability analysis, sales trend analysis, store cost control and trading activity performance.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide financial and commercial support to stores, area managers, the head office retail team and the retail director.

• Run weekly trade reporting, providing clear and detailed financial analysis on store trading performances, including insights and recommendations to maximise store performance.

• Retail KPI analysis, highlighting risks and opportunities and communicating this to the retail team.

• Ownership of month end processes, including the preparation and posting of journals. Ensuring that all numbers in the retail P&L are correctly accounted for each month, with all material variances to the budget/forecast understood. As well as working closely with the retail operations team to manage the cost base throughout the year.

• Production of monthly divisional and store P&L’s, as well as holding P&L reviews with the area managers to review store performance and drive action at the end of each month end.

• Identifying and driving process improvements in month end and trade reporting tasks through automation and process simplification.

• Leading the Budgeting and Forecasting process for all store cost areas to deliver a challenging but achievable budget, including phasing, articulating building blocks and drivers, and setting timelines and deliverables.

• Support in the production and delivery of clear and concise summaries of the budget, including store budget packs that provide stores with the relevant tools to take ownership and delivery of their individual store budgets.

• Provide adhoc analysis and insight on retail performance.

• Support Central Property & the B2B departments, including month-end close, Budget & Forecasting & ad-hoc tasks

• Part qualified Accountant

• Prior experience in a business partnering and/or commercial finance role, preferably in a retail, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) or similar environment

• Excellent excel skills (pivots, v lookups, index, sum product, etc)

• Familiar with forecasting and budgeting process

At The White Company, we value our employees for always going the extra mile for every one of our customers; we reward this with great benefits and competitive salaries.

• Discount -Up to 50% discount and access to regular Sample Sales

• Holiday – 23 days

• Holiday Buy – opportunity to buy up to 5 days holiday

• Pension Scheme – enrolled in our Group Personal Pension schemes upon joining the business.

• Bonus – In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility)

• Perkplace Benefits Platform – offering a variety of discounts across well-being and lifestyle

• Wagestream Money Management app – access to Wagestream gives you power over your pay and supports financial wellbeing

• Continued Development – We offer structured support from our own in-house Learning and Development Hub

• Life Assurance

Additional Benefits

• Fruit basket daily

• Tea and coffee provided

• Working from Home – option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays

• Social – Christmas party/social events throughout the year

• Seasonal Sample Sales

• Volunteer Day – with a charity of your choice

• Great Location – Close to transport links – over ground Shepherds Bush station /underground White City & Wood Lane stations. Westfield shopping centre with shops restaurants/bars/cinema and gyms

Our Equality Diversity and Inclusion statement of commitment

At The White Company we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where people can bring their authentic selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated. Where difference is respected, encouraged, and celebrated. Where you can feel you belong.

We are committed to an active Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process.

We’d love you to join us on our journey.

Our Sustainability statement of commitment

We are committed to building a sustainable legacy that will enable a brighter future for people and our planet.’ We believe this should be reflected in everything we do.