Senior Finance Analyst - Transformation

Senior Finance Analyst - Transformation

Job no: 567660

Work type: Full time

Site: Redditch

Categories: Finance

Location: Worcestershire

Salary: £40,000

Business Area: Halfords Support Centre

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience-from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you're willing to get stuck in, you'll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

As a Senior Finance Analyst within our Avayler and Group Functions Finance Team, you'll take on a broad and varied role that sits at the intersection of financial analysis, business partnering, and reporting improvement. You'll work closely with the business, supporting multiple active transformation projects with the financial analysis, forecasting, and governance that keeps them on track. This is very much a data and partnering focused role rather than a traditional management accounting position.

Day to day, you'll be building and improving reporting suites, automating manual processes where possible, and producing analysis that helps project stakeholders understand their numbers and what it means for decisions ahead. You'll support month end activity including accruals, outturns, reforecasting, and budgeting, and you'll present financial information clearly to non-finance audiences across multiple teams and seniority levels. The data environment isn't perfect, so you'll need to be comfortable working through ambiguity and finding solutions rather than waiting for things to be straightforward.

There's a lot of freedom to put your own stamp on how things are done. If you enjoy problem solving, building relationships across a complex business, and seeing the direct impact of your analysis on real projects and decisions, this is a role with genuine variety and the scope to improve things meaningfully. You'll have support from your manager but will need to be autonomous enough to take ownership and run with things from early on.

• Partner with project stakeholders and teams across multiple projects, providing financial analysis, forecasting, and governance support to help them manage performance and make informed decisions
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve reporting suites, identifying opportunities to automate manual processes and create efficiencies
• Support month end activity including accruals, outturns, reforecasting, and budgeting, ensuring financial data is accurate and clearly communicated to relevant stakeholders
• Analyse large datasets in Excel to produce clear, actionable insight, presenting financial information to non-finance stakeholders in a way that tells a coherent story
• Support the PMO and Transformation Office with day-to-day project governance, helping the business adhere to policies, processes, and documentation requirements for project finance
• Monitor and track project spend and benefits, supporting business case modelling and flagging risks and opportunities as they emerge
• Support the wider team with analysis and reporting as required, contributing to overall team objectives across a variety of business areas

• Working towards a professional qualification such as CIMA or ACCA, with a solid understanding of finance concepts and…