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Commercial Finance Analyst - Supplier Funding
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Job Description
Location: London or Coventry Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Why Join Us
Joining the Finance team at Argos offers the opportunity to play a pivotal role in managing and maximising supplier funding income for Argos. As a Commercial Finance Analyst, you will be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment where your analytical skills and financial acumen will contribute to driving performance, identifying opportunities, and supporting strategic decision-making. With a focus on data-led insights, process improvements, and strong commercial support, this role provides a platform for professional growth, continuous learning, and the chance to make a meaningful impact within a leading retail organisation.
What You'll Do
- Provide accurate reporting, detailed analysis, and actionable insights to effectively manage Argos supplier funding.
- Partner with Buying and Finance teams to offer data-led insights that support decision-making and maximise supplier funding opportunities.
- Support the regular reporting cycle, analyse supplier funding performance, contribute to budgeting and forecasting activities, and develop dashboards and reporting tools to enhance visibility and transparency.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, prepare clear analysis and recommendations, support system enhancements, maintain financial control, and utilise data-led insights to drive constructive conversations and better decision-making, ultimately contributing to the overall financial success and strategic direction of the organisation.
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Who You Are
- Part-qualified or qualified accountant with a strong commercial acumen and advanced analytical mindset.
- Ability to connect financial insights to commercial decisions, work with large and complex data sets, and translate information into actionable insights.
- Focus on financial control, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to driving change and process improvement.
- Resilience, adaptability, and strong ownership to manage ambiguity, prioritise effectively, and deliver high-quality outputs while driving continuous improvement in supplier funding performance management.
Essential Criteria
- Part-qualified or qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with commercial business partnering experience.
- Demonstrable experience using financial and commercial analysis to interpret business performance drivers.
- Proven ability to analyse large and complex datasets, generating clear, actionable insights to inform business outcomes.
- Evidence of maintaining financial controls, data accuracy and integrity, with a high level of attention to detail.
- Proven ability to influence and build effective relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders, including presenting complex financial information in a clear and accessible way.
- Evidence of implementing process improvement or new processes and reporting to improve insight and decision making.
Responsibilities
- Amazing work and real work-life balance.
- Supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals.
- Seeing the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility.
- Being part of a team that listens to your ideas and opinions, and having every chance to try something new.
- Learning continuously and being supported every step of the way.
- Being trusted to get on with it and make things happen.
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Qualifications
- Commitment to being a truly inclusive retailer.
- Opportunities to try something new, whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business.
- Support for development and recognition for going the extra mile.
- Flexible working options where possible.
- An amazing range of benefits, including:
- Colleague discount (saving 10% on shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat, with an increase to 15% at points during the year).
- Pension scheme and life cover.
- Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on company performance.
- Annual holiday allowance with an option to buy up to an additional week's holiday.
- Other benefits to help your money go further, such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, and access to a range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Maternity or adoption leave (up to 26 weeks' pay) and paternity leave (up to 4 weeks' pay).
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