Graduate Finance Business Partner | Chorley | £35,000 – £45,000 + raft of benefits

The Opportunity 

Are you a confident finance analyst / assistant management accountant / graduate analyst looking to join a growth SME?

This is an exciting newly created role within the commercial finance / business partnering team.  Your role focuses on added value analysis – discussing MI and data with the business leaders / department heads to identify opportunities for growth and improvement.There is tons of data flowing through the business – from sales, marketing, promotional activities, operational areas, central support functions…
You’ll have chance to slice and dice some of that info and produce meaningful and insightful summaries for the group. 

You might be looking into which promotions work most effectively, how products are performing by customer, by region, by category… you might be shining a light on the operational KPIs, maybe drilling into forecasted costs versus actual spend….

You’ll spend some time at your desk – in Excel or Power BI, but you’ll also bring those numbers to life by getting out into the business…  speaking with colleagues and building a really valuable commercial understanding of what drives cost, profit, sales and margin…It’s a really interesting role in a fab business – an agile, modern and ambitious SME with a forward thinking leadership team and aspirational investors.
A chance to really fast track your career and work in a team with a great attitude.
Required:

• A relevant degree (accounting / economics / business etc)
• Experience in an analytical or accounting role.
• Excellent Excel skills and ability to interrogate data effectively.
• Commercial awareness and an interest in business and the levers of growth / sales / costs etc)
• Communication skills – confidence when speaking to non finance colleagues in sales / marketing / ops etc.

 This is a welcoming team and you’ll have an amazing mentor – it’s s superb opportunity for someone keen to develop in a commercially focused analytical role with plenty of actual business partnering.

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