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    4. FP&A Analyst 2025
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    Join our growing FP&A team and contribute directly to the long-term strategy of the Group. Reporting to the Head of FP&A, you’ll support the UK FP&A Manager in driving financial performance, contributing to budgeting, forecasting, and improving processes. You’ll play a key role in financial reviews, delivering insights to enhance profitability.

    Key responsibilities

    • First-line financial performance reviews against budget/forecast for the UK business.
    • Collaborate with teams to understand performance impacts and support decision-making.
    • Prepare and reconcile weekly/monthly reports and KPIs (e.g., trading, costs, PPC spend).
    • Build new KPI dashboards and ensure data accuracy.
    • Provide business partnering support, challenging and encouraging stakeholders on performance.
    • Conduct deep dives into financial data and help build business cases for new initiatives.
    • Support budgeting/forecasting and impact reporting for the Group.
    • Contribute to process improvements and special projects.

    Person specification

    • Studying towards or recently started CIMA/ACCA qualification.
    • Entry-level finance experience or a degree in Finance is preferred.
    • Excellent communication skills—able to simplify complex concepts.
    • Strong interpersonal skills with a track record of relationship-building.
    • Team player with a proactive, curious mindset.
    • Passion for turning data into actionable business insights.
    • Strong MS Excel skills; experience with Vena or Tableau is a plus.
    • Ability to handle confidential data with discretion.

    Why join us?

    This is an exciting opportunity to develop within a fast-growing, private equity-backed business. We offer career progression opportunities, hybrid working, and a dynamic environment where you can make an impact.

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    Founded in 2002, World of Books is a circular economy, for profit company that supports charities and protects the planet by enabling more goods to be reused. We are pioneers in the re-use and recycling of unwanted books, recycling about 80 million books each year, equivalent to around half a million trees.

    We achieve this through three direct-to-consumer e-commerce businesses, supported by our own technology.