It's an exciting time to join Holland and Barrett, our mission is to be the leading player in global wellness chosen by millions as their trusted partner for personalised wellness journeys. To achieve this goal, we are embarking on a radical transformation!
We are hiring a Finance Analyst to join the Finance Strategy team, this team ensures that we deliver the right growth and customer outcomes for Holland & Barrett, by providing both Strategy & Transformation capabilities. Most notably, leading the business to develop annual and multi-year business plans and targets, and supporting with key growth and improvement initiatives.
Reporting into the Strategy Finance manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for providing analytical and strategic decision support to all areas of the business. This is a varied role and you'll be involved in a huge variety of work supporting a wide number of functions in the business.
This role will be offered on 6 month, fixed term basis
The Role
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide analytical support, tools and progressive insight to the team to drive decision making across the business and to help meet critical transformational targets and deliver the 3YP.
* Perform ad hoc deep dives as necessary to highlight risks and opportunities for the business and communicate findings.
* Support range review, pricing and promotional analysis.
* Provide data insight and recommendations to support the post implementation reviews of investment programmes including new product development and pricing strategies.
* Build relationships across the business and wider Commercial Finance team to help deliver robust cost and benefits analysis and supporting commentary.
* Support in timely and accurate delivery of insightful reporting.
* Support in production of detailed business cases and forecasts as required
Location: We have bases in Nuneaton, London and Burton, and some travel may be required to all locations. The primary location for this role will be our Nuneaton hub and we are operating on a hybrid basis (2-3 times a week in the office).
The Person
Key Requirements:
* Previous experience in analyst roles, preferably gained in a commercial environment.
* Studying towards or commencing a professional Accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
* Strong Excel and modeling skills (v look ups, pivot tables, sumifs)
* Awareness of AI applications in business processes and a basic understanding of AI concepts and how it's transforming various industries.
* Excellent analytical skills and the ability to provide reporting insight and key decision support across the function
* Ability to build and maintain credible relationships with key stakeholders at various levels in the business.
* Laser focus on attention to detail, and the ability to translate finance for non-finance colleagues
What we offer
Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:
* H&B Employee Discount - 25%
* Pension company contribution
* Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
* And many more!
We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.
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