Retail FP&A Analyst, Soho Home

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the retail division of the Soho House Group with the business that includes our Home and Beauty Brands – ‘Soho Home’ and ‘Cowshed’. Reporting to the Retail Head of Finance, the successful candidate will act as the Retail FP&A Analyst with other duties highlighted below.

Key Accountabilities..

• Lead the bi-annual budget process
• Ownership of forecast modelling, improve and develop current process
• Provide robust commercial challenges to budget holders
• Assist with supporting strategic decision making by providing reporting and analysis
• Produce monthly analysis on margins, cost trends and key variances to present to senior stakeholders
• Investigate any margin discrepancies with the budget holders and identify changes/improvements to the process of margin management
• Produce business cases for potential new sites and revenue streams
• Lead the monthly P/L reviews with the trade leads and site GMs, to discuss performance, key variances to budget and actions are recorded / followed up each month
• Support the Management Accounts team with month end close
• Maintain and improve reporting templates, dashboards and planning tools
• Produce ad hoc analysis as directed by FD / CFO
• Support on year end and the annual audit
• Additional ad-hoc duties as requested.

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• 2-4 years’ experience
• Strong and robust character, confident in challenging at all levels.
• Previous Retail FP&A experience essential
• Advanced Excel skills and ideally experience with Microsoft Business Central package and Power BI.
• Ability to deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work under own initiative and collaborate across departments.
• Ability to manage and prioritise tasks simultaneously whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• "Solution driven” as opposed to “problem focusing"
• Ability to adapt to new systems efficiently and understand the end-to-end process.