Lead Data Analyst (Financial)

Role:  Lead Data Analyst (Financial)

Location:  Leeds LS15 (with hybrid working after completion of training)

Salary: £40 – 60k DOE per annum plus extensive benefits

Contract type: Permanent

Employment type:Full time

Working hours:40 hours pw – Monday – Friday

Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.4 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery.  We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day. 

The Lead Financial Data Analyst is pivotal in delivering accurate and actionable revenue and margin outputs across all business verticals, ensuring their reliability for decision-making across the organisation. This role will provide insights into working capital metrics, support business budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes, and act as a key partner to the finance team to drive financial efficiency and strategic alignment.

What’s in it for you?

Occupational sick pay                      

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay                        

Contributory pension 

Discounted insurance (Aviva)          

Employee discount site                                                  

Discounted gyms (via our blue light card and benefits schemes)

Employee assistance programme  

In-house mental health support                                   

Free onsite parking  

Health and wellbeing initiatives      

Social events throughout the year                                

Cycle to work scheme 

Green car scheme*(subject to minimum earnings)                   

Registration fees paid (GPhC, NMC, CIPD etc)             

Long service bonus 

Refer a friend bonus                        

Blue light card                                                                 

Hybrid working

Commitment to CPD/training         

25 days annual leave increasing with service

Annual leave buy and sell scheme

Discounts & Exclusive offers at The Springs, Leeds

25% Discount & health & beauty purchases 

25% Discount on Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor Services

What you’ll be doing?

• Produce accurate, timely revenue and margin reports for all business verticals, ensuring they reflect true performance
• Maintain and refine data models to calculate and monitor profitability at various levels
• Partner with finance to update financial forecasts, ensuring alignment with objectives and market trends and support annual budgeting processes
• Analyse historical performance to identify patterns and provide input into long-term planning
• Provide visibility into working capital metrics, focused on stock
• Challenge existing practices and propose improvements to optimise cash flow
• Develop and maintain dashboards to track key working capital KPIs in real time
• Work closely with commercial to align financial insights with broader business strategies
• Present data-driven findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, bridging the gap between financial data and actionable strategy
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data
• Implement robust data validation processes to minimise errors and discrepancies
• Collaborate with data engineering to maintain and enhance financial data pipelines and systems
• Develop and maintain automated dashboards to track revenue, margin, and other financial KPIs,
• Analyse variances between actuals and forecasts, identifying key drivers and trends to inform future strategies
• Support ad-hoc financial analysis requests, providing quick and accurate data-driven responses

Who are we looking for?

• Bachelors’ or Masters degree in related field and demonstrable experience in the field of Financial Data Analytics
• Expertise in Google Analytics, BigQuery, Tableau, SQL, and other data visualization and reporting tools
• Experience of working in a pressured environment, delivering against tight deadlines even when under pressure
• Experience of working within company and ethical rules and regulation
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes
• Proven track record of working alongside finance teams in a collaborative environment
• IT literate including intermediate Excel

What happens next?

Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.

Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.

All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.

Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.

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