Commercial Finance Analyst - Trading Planning and Forecasting

The Finance team play a key role in the success at ASDA and the Financial Planning (FP&A) team are very much at the heart of Finance with our Exec board and Wal-Mart as our key customers.

The successful candidate will play a key role in the team including two primary responsibilities;

Business performance review and analysis – using analytical skills, judgement and networks to understand our trading performance, giving visibility of the right issues to help drive performance

Maintaining and developing efficient and effective planning / forecasting processes across the Trading elements of the Planning team to ensure financial control and to help drive the right decisions.

This is a high-profile commercial finance role that will require you to have strong commercial and analytical skills. This is a great opportunity for a colleague with lots of drive and potential to develop in a fast-paced team where you will build a great understanding of Asda Finance, the wider Asda business, and the broader retail market, setting you up well for future roles within Asda.


What you’ll be responsible for:

Monitoring performance against plan/forecast and proactively driving analysis to understand, evaluate, challenge and improve trading performance

Providing trading and market insight into weekly and monthly business performance reviews

Maintaining and developing financial control across the trading planning and forecasting processes including supporting the delivery of the trading business plan

Managing processes effectively whilst continually looking for new ways to improve efficiency for Finance and the wider business

About you:

You should either be a fully qualified or part qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

You’ll have a positive attitude and a keen willingness to learn; you’ll be motivated to get the job done and to deliver to tight timelines; actively seeking accountability and opportunity

Analytically minded and with a desire to understand how things work, you’ll have a keen eye for detail

You will ideally have advanced Excel / modelling skills and working knowledge of PowerPoint

You’ll be a strong communicator with the ability to build relationships and deliver through others in a fast paced environment

Good commercial awareness is a must with the ability to critically evaluate and clearly articulate commercial performance