Finance Analyst

Role Overview

• Own and manage full customer and product P&Ls, delivering clear insights and performance drivers.
• Partner with Commercial teams to analyse pricing, promotional ROI, investment spend, and customer profitability.
• Provide deep analysis on margin drivers, mix shifts, cost movements and opportunities for improvement.
• Support monthly and weekly commercial performance cycles: forecasts, results, variance analysis and exec-ready insights.
• Own and maintain manufacturing standard costs, ensuring accurate and timely updates across materials, labour, overheads and yields.
• Partner with Plant Finance to deliver variance analysis, including production, material usage, labour efficiency and yield performance.
• Act as cover for product costing when required, ensuring accurate NPD/EPD product costings.
• Own key elements of customer pricing, including rebates, discounts, promotional mechanics and trade investment inputs.
• Ensure high-quality, reliable core financial data for use across Sales, Finance, and Operations.
• Maintain pricing models and integrate cost changes, commercial strategies and customer agreements.
• Act as cover for weekly management results reporting, ensuring continuity of high-quality insights and commentary when primary owners are unavailable.
• Support budget, forecast and results cycles across revenue, COGS, distribution, and trading margin.
• Build and enhance business systems, tools and analytical models to support Manufacturing variance analysis, Labour analysis, Promotional and trade spend analytics, Margin and mix insights, Cost-to-serve and SKU profitability.
• Improve data flows, processes and automation to reduce manual work and improve reliability across Finance and Commercial teams.
• Develop dashboards and digital assets (Power BI, Excel models, SQL datasets, etc.) that drive self-service insights.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in Commercial Finance, Sales Analytics, Manufacturing Finance, or Cost Accounting.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing cost structures and commercial drivers.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with BI tools is an advantage.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, Category, Procurement, or Manufacturing teams.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into practical commercial insights.
• High attention to detail, strong ownership mindset, and ability to thrive in dynamic environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, comfortable operating across commercial and operational teams.
• Systems thinker with a passion for improving processes, data flows and analytical capability.
• Experience with Power BI, SQL, or advanced analytics tools (NICE TO HAVE)

Tech Stack

• SQL

Benefits

• Work from Home
• Flexible work arrangements