Intermediate Financial Analyst

The Intermediate Financial Analyst plays an essential role in growing talent in our business through collaboration and support within FP&A and our business partners. You know how to be curious about opportunities and how to be real with feedback and support.

Analysts play an essential role in developing and executing the company vision by supporting decision making, planning, and driving results. You will understand business operations, developing tools, metrics, and processes to provide information that drives action and improvements. You will ensure information is accurate, relevant, and actionable while being understood by a wide audience of stakeholders.

You will be comfortable regularly interacting with all levels of staff and provide them with insightful, forward looking, reporting and analysis. Lush is a true vertically integrated business including Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, Digital, and Admin streams. While all streams are linked, this role is primarily focused on Supply Chain and Purchasing. You will play a key role in all budgeting and forecasting workflows for these teams. There is also opportunity to learn and work cross functionally from other Analysts on the team as they support their business areas.

As a growing business, Lush needs people that can adapt and evolve to the needs of the business. You are a listener with a structured approach to planning but are also excited to drive discussion that leads to action. You have a passion for what you do and are ready to join a business dedicated not just to technical proficiency but to the practices of fair-trade sourcing, supporting sustainable communities, and giving back to grassroots organizations.

Our Lush staff live with purpose, finding their personal value connected with the values of our business, bringing their work and life paths into one holistic journey. #mylushlife

Reporting to the Manufacturing FP&A Manager, the Intermediate Financial Analyst  undertakes the following RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Financial business partner to the Manufacturing Finance, Supply Chain, S&A teams, providing quality, relevant, and timely, financial support to the stream and the organization.
• Be a storyteller, turning data into easily understood trends and impacts that can be actioned by the business.
• Perform month-end variance analysis and operational reviews for Supply Chain departments, including Purchases and Inventory, providing insights on financial performance and key underlying drivers, changes against the plan, and upcoming opportunities and risks. 
• Review performance of Inventory, identifying appropriate targets as well as reducing inefficiencies in slow moving or obsolete inventory.
• Provide support, insights, and analysis to the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• Responsible for monthly financial forecasting and annual budgeting processes, including the development, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of forecasting models to ensure accurate financial plans.
• Review metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to find actionable opportunities for stakeholders and educate the business on how those metrics drive financial improvements.
• Support the development and improvement of centralized tools and dashboards for business users to clearly understand their performance and opportunities.
• Work with stakeholders to provide decision support, impact assessment, and return on investment (ROI) analysis on the evaluation of projects and strategic initiatives.
• Improve finance knowledge across the business by effectively communicating financial concepts that can be easily understood by all stakeholders
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency of processes and deliverables.
• Provide support for any ad-hoc analysis projects, modelling, and presentation materials as required.
• Position requires on-site 5 days a week.

You bring the following QUALIFICATIONS: