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As we continue our mission to bring happiness through chocolate, we’re looking for a Finance Analyst to join our Fulfilment and Digital Transformation team on a full-time basis.
In this role, you’ll support financial operations by providing key insights, improving reporting processes, and ensuring accurate cost tracking. You’ll play a crucial role in enhancing financial visibility, supporting decision-making, and optimizing operational spend.
Along with a competitive salary and a range of company benefits, you’ll enjoy:
- 50% discount on all Hotel Chocolat products
- 70% discount for you and your guests at our Rabot Estate hideaway in Saint Lucia
We’ve embraced hybrid working, so you’ll be on-site at our Distribution Centre ‘Beta’ in Northampton three days a week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the other two. Our 429,107 sq. ft. facility, opened in October 2022, is the heart of our fulfilment operations.
What you’ll be doing
- Gathering data for weekly cost estimates, working closely with operational teams to ensure accuracy
- Performing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, improving insight and reporting
- Compiling and distributing weekly reports on stock, labour costs, KPIs, and variance analysis
- Reconciling weekly estimates to monthly actuals, identifying variances for improved forecasting
- Reviewing and enhancing current processes to provide better insights to budget holders
- Conducting ad hoc reporting and analysis to support operational spend management
- Calculating accruals and prepayments for month-end processes, including journal postings
- Building and maintaining advanced Excel spreadsheets to support financial reporting
Who you are
Essential
- Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to use pivot tables
- A determined and experienced problem solver with strong analytical skills
- AAT qualification or equivalent
- Experienced in balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis
- Experience working in an accounts department with accounting packages
- Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring reports are accurate and reliable
- A team player with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments
- Ability to handle sensitive, confidential information with discretion
Desirable
- Experience working with D365 accounting package
- Experience managing labour costs and supporting budget holders to control labour costs
Who are we
We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, offering luxury gifts, alcohol, and our pioneering Velvetiser™ drinking chocolate system.
Like our cacao pods—carefully nurtured for years before they’re ready—we’ve grown steadily. Originally a mint production company, we soon realised our passion lay in luxury chocolate. From an online-only store, we expanded into 140+ UK retail locations—and we’re still growing! Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, with customers, colleagues, cacao farmers, and suppliers all sharing in our success.
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