Your new role

The Finance Analyst will play a key role within the Sofology Commercial Finance function and will report into the Senior Finance Business Partner. The Commercial Finance team are at the forefront of all business activities, a key driver of change, providing essential information utilised across key decision making. This position will suit a bright, analytical, agile, problem solver who has the aspiration of becoming a Finance Business Partner and qualified accountant. The successful candidate will ideally be a part-qualified accountant who will gain valuable mentoring in the role with a view to becoming fully qualified within three years.

A day in the life of...

• Producing key weekly reports to understand performance with primary focus on our Supply Chain, Service and Central Operations functions

• Business partnering with Supply Chain, Service and Central Operations leadership team and providing clear ad-hoc reporting to help drive decision making and improvements in the business

• Assisting in preparing annual budgets, recurring forecasts and monitoring performance in conjunction with the management team

• Undertake review of stock and stock processes, providing insightful reporting and assisting with management accounts processes involving stock

• Producing monthly P&L review templates with commentary around any significant variances

• Calculation of monthly bonus payments for the Customer Services team

• Any ad-hoc tasks appropriate to the role and support with general reporting across all areas of the business

In an ideal world...

• Finance experience with a preference for experience gained in a commercial finance environment

• Part qualified AAT, ACCA or CIMA

• Advanced Microsoft Excel, with experience of working with Google Sheets also advantageous

• Ability to collaborate and communicate with people of all levels of seniority and achieve continuous improvements in process and efficiency

• Organised with a strong focus on detail and have the ability to identify priorities

• Pragmatic with a high degree of commercial acumen

• Understanding of all areas of finance

• Financial modelling skills

• Very strong excel / spreadsheet skills with the ability to quickly decipher and manipulate large quantities of data

• Research and analytical capabilities – ability to identify insights from a mass of data

• Strong self starter with the ability to work "hands on"

Pay and Perks

• Professional Qualifications Learning & Development
• 30% discount across the group & 15% for friends & family
• High street Discounts with 100’s of great brands
• Contributory Healthcare Pension 
• Your Lawyer
• Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues & your household
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay

A little about Sofology

At Sofology, sofas are SO our thing - but so are our people! In fact, people are our greatest asset and that’s why we are completely committed to our ED&I strategy, So For All. We are working passionately with all of our colleagues across the business to learn, understand and be completely enthralled into continuing to make Sofology an equal, diverse and inclusive place to work.

It’s important to us to make sure that we don’t just look for new talent to ‘fit in’ with our culture, but instead, we look for incredible talented colleagues to ‘add’ to our wonderful culture.

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