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We’re looking for two financial planning analysts to join us. One will sit within Funeralcare and the other in our Commercial team. Your role will be to support in building plans and basic financial modelling across our different business areas. You’ll be providing a clear analysis of our performance and translating it into an accessible and insightful way so that our senior leaders can use it to inform decisions that optimise the business. We’ve got a big job on our hands to transform the way we do things at Co-op. And when we get it right, it’ll have even bigger benefits for our customers, members, and colleagues.
The role
As a financial analyst, you’ll be playing a key part in the team that’s responsible for analysing performance and trends, providing insights from that data and forecasting, budgeting, and planning for the future. If you’re future focused and can bring us the skills that we need, we can offer you the chance to build your career with a business that always puts people at the heart of its strategy.
What you’ll do
- support in building financial plans, using proven techniques and methods
- financial modelling and interpretation of the data to provide insights
- communicate insights to the senior team in a clear and accessible way
- provide analysis and benchmark performance, including both financial and non-financial metrics, that will inform and optimise decision making
- supporting weekly and periodic performance reporting across the different business areas
- develop skills to provide trial analysis and support for key projects
This role would suit people who have
- an accountancy qualification (or you’re currently working towards one)
- experience analysing data and drawing conclusions from this
- good communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of partners across the business
- proficient IT skills including good knowledge of Microsoft Excel (you’re able to confidently work with VLOOKUP, pivot tables and other advanced formulas)
- a desire to develop and grow within the role and constantly try new things
- the ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced environment
Why Co-op?
Here you’ll do work that matters. We’re a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes:
- competitive salary
- coaching, training, and support to help you develop
- pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- annual incentive scheme
- health and wellbeing incentives and rewards through the YuLife app
- Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service)
- discounts on Co-op products and services
Building an inclusive work environment
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.
If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
