Lead Finance Planning & Reporting Analyst

We're looking for a Lead Finance Planning & Reporting Analyst to join our central food financial planning and analysis team in Manchester. We'll look to you to pull together the data of the overall food performance story, looking back and into the future. You'll gather insights and spot trends to support future thinking and to build strong relationships with our finance partners to help with overall delivery. In this role you'll work in a hybrid way - spending at least one day per week working from the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

What you'll do

• Work closely with our FPAR leads to deliver detailed and accurate reports and financial plans


• Provide variance analysis and insight across a variety of business areas and projects


• Make sure any risks and opportunities are identified and considered in future forecasts and present any financial impacts they might have


• Be on the look-out for new analysis techniques and methodologies to improve the value of the insights we provide


• Understand our current performance for our food operations board


• Build data models to create a forecast and provide analysis
  
  Experience working in an analysis, insight, or financial reporting team with a solid understanding of analytical methods, practices, and techniques


• Strong IT skills (including Microsoft Excel and database applications)


• Good communication and prioritisation skills, with the ability to present financial information to a non-finance audience


• Good relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge people inclusively
  
  At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.


We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. 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 you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

If you've got the skills and experience we're looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You'll also get:

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)


• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays


• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions


• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)


• Coaching and training to support your career development


• Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it


• YuLife - an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands


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