Are you a highly analytic, part qualified or newly qualified Accountant, who can offer excellent commercial support, insight and analysis to a wider finance team and business stakeholders?
The role
We’ve created an additional role in our finance team for a Commercial Finance Analyst, who will work alongside our Finance Business Partnering team to challenge and support the wider business team to ensure the best possible decision are made, and costs and processes are optimised to ensure profitable sales growth.
The Commercial Finance Analyst position offers hybrid working, with 2 to 3 days from home or in our head office in Hull each week.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing commercial finance support and insight to the business partners and key stakeholders around the business which helps contribute to positive improvements in performance
- Timely and accurate production of all regular reporting, analysis and insight using the available modelling tools and technical knowledge
- Investigating unusual trends in information and highlighting actionable insight to key stakeholders
- Leading the budget and rolling forecast processes within the relevant modelling tools and dashboarding products
- Producing forward looking reports and analysis on areas such as sales and margin highlighting key risks and opportunities
- Working closely with the business intelligence/ finance teams on financial dashboarding projects – ensuring financial integrity of reported information
- Analysis and documenting of business requirements, to design and write analytical business reports, including test of data and design validation for quality output
- Discovering, documenting and applying best practice research and analysis as part of the Commercial Finance continuous improvement agenda
Benefits
On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:
- A highly competitive starting salary plus up to 10% Annual Bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
The ideal Commercial Finance Analyst will be/have
- Part qualified or newly qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
- Good interpersonal, communication & presentation skills
- Ability to deal with large volumes of data and organise, analyse and present information in an easy-to-understand way with clear findings and recommendations to key stakeholders
- Experience of Anaplan or similar modelling tools desirable
- Ability to challenge assumptions and the status quo
- Ability to work as a team and deliver to tight deadlines
- Good knowledge of business strategy, structure, systems, processes and people
- Confident user of Microsoft Packages
About us
With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.
We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.
Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.
Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.
