A leading retailer is seeking a FP&A Analyst to join their finance team in Chesham. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of a multi-site retail business, where your expertise will directly influence strategic decisions and drive profitability across multiple channels and categories. What you'll do: As a Commercial FP&A Analyst based in Chesham, you will immerse yourself in all aspects of financial planning, analysis, and commercial support. Your day-to-day activities will involve preparing insightful trading reports that inform both immediate actions and long-term strategies. You will work hand-in-hand with buying and merchandising teams during budgeting cycles, ensuring forecasts are robust and aligned with business objectives. By monitoring KPIs such as margins and sell-through rates, you will help identify areas for improvement while supporting senior leaders with clear risk assessments. Your ability to develop advanced dashboards using Power BI will empower stakeholders with real-time data-driven insights. Additionally, you will play a crucial role in supplier negotiations through detailed profitability analyses. Mentoring junior analysts forms part of your remit as you contribute to building a high-performing finance function that underpins the company's growth ambitions. Prepare and review comprehensive weekly and monthly trading reports that provide clear visibility into business performance. Lead budgeting, reforecasting, and financial planning cycles for various channels and categories in close partnership with buying and merchandising teams. Monitor key performance indicators such as intake margin, markdowns, cover, and sell-through rates to identify trends and drive continuous improvement. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance reporting capabilities and data tools, ensuring outputs align with overall business strategy. Provide effective challenge and support to senior stakeholders including the Chief Product Officer and Trading Director by highlighting risks and opportunities. Deliver detailed variance analysis on sales, margin, stock, and intake to inform commercial decisions across the business. Support supplier analysis initiatives to strengthen negotiations and improve overall profitability for the organisation. Develop Power BI dashboards that deliver meaningful analysis to stakeholders across departments. Undertake ad hoc analysis or model propositions for promotions, projects, or other business requests as required by leadership. What you bring: To excel as a FP&A Analyst, you bring not only technical proficiency but also an empathetic approach that values teamwork, knowledge sharing, and supportive leadership. Your background includes hands-on experience in commercial finance roles where you have partnered closely with buying or merchandising functions-translating complex data into actionable recommendations that drive business outcomes. You are adept at building robust models in Excel while leveraging Power BI for impactful reporting. Your interpersonal skills shine when collaborating across departments or presenting findings to senior management; you understand how trading decisions affect sales performance at every level. With recognised accounting qualifications underpinning your expertise, you demonstrate reliability under pressure-managing competing priorities without compromising accuracy or quality. Above all else, your enthusiasm for nurturing others ensures those around you feel supported as they grow professionally alongside you. Proven experience in a commercial finance or financial planning and analysis role within retail or fast-moving consumer goods environments is essential for success in this position. Exceptional financial modelling abilities combined with advanced Excel skills enable you to deliver accurate forecasts and insightful analyses. Strong numerical aptitude paired with commercial acumen ensures attention to detail when interpreting complex data sets. Excellent communication skills allow you to influence non-finance stakeholders effectively while fostering co-operative relationships across departments. Demonstrated understanding of merchandising processes alongside experience partnering with buying teams enhances your ability to add value commercially. Experience presenting financial results clearly to senior leaders supports informed decision-making throughout the organisation. Familiarity with Power BI dashboard creation is highly desirable as it enables efficient dissemination of analytical findings. A proactive approach coupled with meticulous attention to detail allows you to manage multiple priorities within a flexible working environment. A minimum of one to three years' experience in similar roles-ideally gained within retail or sales-focused businesses-provides the foundation needed for this opportunity. Professional qualifications such as CIMA, ACCA or ACA are required; experience in hospitality or multi-site backgrounds is advantageous. Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates