Senior Commercial Analyst (Cosmetics & Fragrance)

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit…a day includes

Being the finance business partner to the Cosmetics & Fragrance  (c.£330m sales p.a.) commercial team, developing strong and effective working relationships in order to provide insight, analysis and support to the categories enabling the business to deliver company targets and profitability. Being the finance owner of all elements of company stock, working closely with the business to understand and drive optimum levels.

 Key Responsibilities

 - Provide financial analysis and support to investment decisions including business case preparation and presentations to the investment committee.

 - Provide financial analysis, insight and support on all elements of company stock and be the Finance representative at the Stock Action Group. This includes analysis of stock targets, slow moving stock and maintenance of the Stock provision calculation.

 - To analyse and support forward looking strategic initiatives such as store trials, range reviews and customer initiatives.

 - Own respective commercial cost centres, managing month end close and the budgeting process.

 - Provide challenging and insightful adhoc commercial analysis such as category reviews, range performance and basket analysis.

 - Support and manage where appropriate, all financial processes relevant to Cosmetics & Fragrance enabling the company to achieve Supplier Income and promotional retros targets.

 - Support the Commercial sales and margin budgeting and forecasting processes providing quarterly forecasts and an operating plan for all relevant commercial areas.

- To manage and develop a Commercial Analyst.

 - Ad hoc analysis and reporting as required across the wider Commercial Finance team.

 - To produce business reports both internally and externally to the parent company, and to identify and deliver developments in     reporting, system use and processes ensuring they deliver robust business information in an efficient manner.

What you need to succeed:

 - Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA
 - Retail/FMCG experience from a medium or large company preferred 
 - Strong Excel skills with VBA preferable and ability to master technical skills quickly
 - Ability to prioritise and manage parallel workflows with tight deadlines
 - High attention to detail
 - Experience of working in an analytical environment dealing with large data sets and providing solutions to minimise manual     processing
 - Ability to summarise detailed data and present it clearly at all levels of the business

Here's what's in it for you

33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK.

We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
Currently we are working from home in line with government guidelines When we are able  you will be working in a stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
Company pension matching and bonus
Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
Come and be part of something special.
Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm

 - Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA
 - Retail/FMCG experience from a medium or large company preferred 
 - Strong Excel skills with VBA preferable and ability to master technical skills quickly
 - Ability to prioritise and manage parallel workflows with tight deadlines
 - High attention to detail
 - Experience of working in an analytical environment dealing with large data sets and providing solutions to minimise manual     processing
 - Ability to summarise detailed data and present it clearly at all levels of the business