Job Title: FP&A Analyst – Fixed-Term-Contract
Salary: Competitive
Location: Hook, Hybrid with occasional travel to other locations
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week (9:00am – 5:30pm)
Job Status: Permanent
At cinch our mission is simple - to remove the faff from buying and owning cars, giving customers more choice, with more ease (not to mention a free 90-day warranty on all cars...)
Already the UK's largest online used car retailer, we're expanding our offering with an exciting roadmap of online and physical retail solutions - including faff-free car servicing at over 100 locations across the country.
We're part of Constellation Automotive Group - a family of brands that also includes We Buy Any Car, British Car Auctions (BCA) and Marshall Motor Group. Together, cinch and Marshall operate as Constellation Retail - bringing together 100+ years of motoring know-how at 130+ stores (Marshall) with a market-leading digital experience from a much-admired brand (cinch).
The road ahead for you is clear. Join us and you'll get a unique opportunity to grow your career across two leading automotive brands that are really going places. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
What you'll be working on
You will provide financial analysis and support to the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. The FP&A team are responsible for leading the forecast and budgeting process, as well as business partnering with key stakeholders across all departments to help facilitate decision making. We also have significant interaction with other group companies and our group finance team. Responsibilities will include:
Analysing and interrogating, often complex, financial data
Working with our decision intelligence team and key stakeholders to develop insightful financial reporting
Identifying and highlighting trends
Review processes and recommendations for improvements
Supporting on the team with preparing monthly departmental review files
Preparing and sending out key daily/weekly/monthly reports to stakeholders across the business
Contributing to ad hoc financial projects as required as part of the overall finance function
things we'd love to see
Studying towards becoming a qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) with a strong academic background
Demonstrate experience in analysing large data sets
Experience with PowerBI is a plus
Possess excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop key stakeholder relationships
Well-organised with excellent attention to detail and the ability to multi-task
Ability to take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion whilst working under pressure to meet deadline
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to communicate financial information to people from both finance and non-finance backgrounds
cinch and Rewards
cinch's benefits programme sees that our people are supported both in and out of work. That's what a faff-free life is all about. We offer:
Competitive salaries and bonuses
A company pension scheme
An Employee Assistance Programme
Access to trained mental health first aiders
Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
And so much more
cinch and You
In making the most out of a career at cinch you need to be curious, creative, and collaborative. See, we are putting you in the driver's seat, in control of your career and ready to drive your own development. There's no bureaucracy, no hierarchy, just an environment with values that bring us together and a purpose that sets us apart. Join us as we continue to accelerate, defy expectations, and revolutionise an entire industry.
cinch and Diversity and Inclusion
cinch wants to help all kinds of people in the UK find and buy a car. So, it makes good sense to have all kinds of people working with us on the challenge. Conversations and the decisions they lead to are better for featuring different voices. Representation matters.
And doing your job while not being your authentic self is not faff-free. Being free to be the best of who you are as you soar to professional greatness is the kind of business we commit to creating, as one.