Finance Analyst- 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Every day, we push beyond expectations to help millions of people save money, at a time when it’s never mattered more. Through MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert, Quidco and our B2B partnerships we supply products to more than 24 million unique monthly visitors, helping UK households to save billions of pounds a year. Can you tell this is something we’re exceptionally proud of!

Creative, collaborative, ambitious – it’s hard work. But what makes it worth it? Leaving work knowing we’ve made a difference to our customers, users, and to each other.

Put our distinct brands together with our dedicated colleagues and you’ve got a workplace with lots of personality. We’re open-minded, diverse, and love our differences. Everyone plays a part, and comes together to work hard, go beyond, and make sure everyone feels they belong.

Our Finance team is growing, and we're hiring for a Finance Analyst to come and join our Commercial Finance Team. Join us to start going beyond comparison.

INSIGHT INTO THE ROLE

The Commercial Finance team plays a critical role in our business, partnering with senior leaders and their teams to provide insight on performance, clear and accurate forecasting, and support on strategic initiatives. This helps to ensure our commercial success and achieve our mission of ‘helping every household make the most of their money’.

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, the Finance Analyst will be a close and trusted financial partner, embedded within the vertical team providing financial reporting and analysis that will aid decision making. This role will provide detailed relevant insight into vertical performance and its drivers, helping the vertical to optimise performance and achieve growth targets.

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR DAY

• Acting as a strategic partner and value driver with the vertical team, focusing on value creation and growth

• Operate strong trading process to deliver advanced insight analytics and drive action to improve commercial performance, helping the business make the right decisions in response to rapidly changing trading conditions

• Creating and improving the financial reporting required to trade the business, reviewing with stakeholders and updating as the business develops

• Acting as a trusted partner, whilst balancing the need for independence and challenging thinking and process when needed

• Identifying the key underlying drivers of performance in order to lead the business through the planning process (annual budget, quarterly reforecasts, month end close and longer-term strategic planning)

• Key role in the planning process, including continuous development of the Anaplan forecasting tool

• Involvement in a broad range of project work such as the analysis of and input into business cases for new products or business models, detailed analysis of performance to identify problem areas or opportunities for maximising profitability

• Developing a detailed understanding of the vertical business model, and the underlying commercial factors be able to interpret and interrogate performance

• Representing the vertical on ensuring data integrity and acting as a steward, working closely with the Data and BI teams to resolve incidents and improve data

• Working with commercial teams on new propositions, renegotiations and promotions, analysing data to create recommendations that deliver the best returns for the business

• Working with marketing teams ensuring of efficiency of spend and appraising new options for investment

• Providing strong support to the vertical finance business partner and deputising where appropriate

WHAT VALUE YOU'LL BRING TO THE ROLE

• Professional accountancy qualification, most likely CIMA or ACCA or qualified by experience

• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail

• Proven ability to work with and analyse large amounts of numerical data.

• Ability to manage multiple projects/ support different areas simultaneously.

• Ability to manage own workload and conflicting priorities including stakeholder management.

• A real focus on the customer and on ensuring that everything we do delivers a great outcome for our customers

• Experience of analysing and interpreting data in a commercial context.

• Experience of stakeholder management at different levels of the organisation.

• Comfortable with challenging the business on complex, data driven decisions

• Experience of working in a retail or online business.

• Ability to use driver-based financial planning, ideally experience of the Anaplan tool

• Confident with Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau and ability to build a suitable understanding of the group’s data architecture

WHY SWITCH TO US

Dedicated time for learning & people regularly attend conferences and events

We're a hybrid organisation, spending 2-days per week in the office to get the best of team collaboration and allowing you to work where you see best.

Grow your career with us, supported by our career progression framework as well

WHAT REWARDS ARE ON OFFER

27 days holiday (rising to 30) + bank holidays

Pension up to 6% employer contribution

Bonus scheme

Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents

Digital Doctor on demand

Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year

Financial coaching

Mental health platform access

HOW WE'LL INVEST IN YOU

We’re committed to your development. Expect mentorship, training, and opportunities to expand your skill set. Your own individual LinkedIn Learning license with access to over 16,000 courses.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team

1st stage interview: 30 minutes with Senior Finance Business Partner

2nd stage interview: 1 hour interview with Head of Commercial Finance and Senior Finance Business Partner

At MONY Group, we believe in the strength of diversity and see inclusion as a strategic advantage. Our values guide us in creating a workplace where fairness and equity is a reality for all. We’re committed to minimising systemic bias and creating a level playing field for all candidates.

Contact us for reasonable accommodations in the application process, no need to disclose your disability or condition, just specify your needs. Unsure what to ask for? We can guide you through available accommodations.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know more before applying such as more on hybrid working, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Laura at laura.hughes@monygroup.com

We believe that success isn’t solely defined by ticking boxes on a skills checklist. We encourage your application, so we can discover your skills and experience that will help you succeed in this role.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ROLE IS A 12 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT