Senior Finance Analyst, Portfolio Finance

Posting End Date:

February 9, 2025

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Job Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Commercial Finance team as a Senior Finance Analyst in Portfolio & Investment. The John Lewis Partnership’s Commercial Finance team has set itself a vision and that is to 'deliver the best possible basis for decision making to our stakeholders'. The role the team performs is to drive business performance by playing an active role in advising, influencing and maximising value from the investments we make, and finding opportunities to manage and reduce our every-day costs.

They do that by applying strong commercial expertise, external market awareness and judgement in order to perform the complex analysis which in turn aids the building of dynamic and slick financial models based on sometimes ambiguous or brief data sets. Our Senior Finance Analysts find themselves actively working with a Commercial Finance Lead or Manager to develop the approach for each outcome. They are empowered to make recommendations to business leaders in order to influence key business decisions based on financial analysis against specific business issues and outcomes.

In the P&I team, you will be supporting ~£0.5bn Portfolio investment costs across the P&L and Balance Sheet to track, challenge and escalate risk and ops through analysis of complex data sets. Financial modelling to consolidate and scrutinise Portfolio financial data working closely with the senior finance stakeholders in the FP&A, Commercial Finance and Portfolio Transformation Office. Framing content for Board and Exec papers on Transformation investment in capex, exceptional costs, lease debt and one off cost of change. Reviewing the quality of earnings and returns from the Portfolio being in line with our Budget and Business Plan.

Job Description:

• Expected salary - £46,600 - £61,000. 

• Contract type - We have permanent and fixed term contracts.

• Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able …