Finance Analyst

The successful Finance Analyst will:

Period/Year End, Reporting and Controls:

• Assist in accounting for Retail Property costs for month/year end actuals, by posting journals and ensuring all costs are properly accounted for
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Updating analysis for the monthly board pack providing detailed commentary on key variances.
• Highlighting any risks and opportunities.

Cashflow:

• Preparation of rent payments due based on store turnover or fixed contracts.
• Monthly update of occupancy costs in the cash flow forecast.

Budget, Forecasting & Longer-Term Planning:

• Assist the Finance Manager in the budgeting and forecasting processes for stores providing support and guidance to teams and ensuring all assumptions are appropriately challenged.
• Updating and maintaining complex models on store costs including store wage model.
• Compiling budget/forecast summaries and communicating outcomes to senior management
• Support the Retail Finance Manager to determine assumptions for budgets and forecasts.

Rolling forecast:

• Updating a rolling forecast to assess store profitability.
• Preparing appropriate summaries to clearly communicate updated view to senior management to aid decision making for the store portfolio.

Ad Hoc:

• Supporting Finance Manager with general requests
• Provision of Ad Hoc analysis and process improvements as required.