Graduate Finance Analyst Manchester, England
Job description
Duration: 36 months
Qualifications Required: Degree achieved or predicted A Levels grades A-C
The role
Are you looking to build a long-term career in Accountancy? Then look no further! Start your career today with a Level 7 apprenticeship with Boohoo and Kaplan. You will be gaining valuable workplace experience whilst working towards the CIMA qualification.
The team
We started out as one brand with only three team members in 2006, today we are now made up of 13 amazing brands and counting, we have offices all over the world and we’ve grown to a 6,000+ strong team we call our boohoo family – and we don’t plan on stopping yet. We have big ambitions, huge potential and a clear strategy to continually evolve and grow the business. It’s a seriously exciting time to join us and influence the next chapter of our success.
What you will be doing:
- Business Partner key stakeholders within our Brand teams across various departments such as Merchandising and Marketing to ensure that the financial impacts of decisions are analysed and understood.
- Support with daily and weekly trade and profitability reporting, focussing on analysing and evaluating business performance in a rapidly changing environment.
• Provide and maintain various forms of Management Reporting to enable better decision making throughout the business. • Assist in the preparation of annual budgets, quarterly reforecasts and weekly forecasts.
- Work with our marketing teams to track, manage and control marketing spend in an effective way.
- Maintain and develop complex models to improve forecasting accuracy and drive operational efficiency.
- Contribute to the production of month-end management accounts and perform key financial processes such as balance sheet reconciliations, preparation of accruals and prepayments and management of purchase orders.
- Work alongside our data and analytics teams within finance to help drive improvements in insight, reporting and processes.
More about you
Resilience and persistence.- Displays emotional and professional maturity.
- Flexible thinking can challenge assumptions and push thinking.
- Can evidence the fostering of a team mindset.
- Demonstrates initiative and can demonstrate learning from experience.
- Provision of meaningful insight supported by recommendations for improvement.
- Driven to deliver in a fast paced, dynamic environment with constantly evolving challenges.
- Ability to communicate clearly and develop relationships with stakeholders across various areas of the business.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to manipulate and present data to produce meaningful information.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Motivated to pursue further study through a CIMA Level 7 qualification and develop a career in Finance.
- Demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Excel to analyse data.
Training Provided:
CIMA Level 7
CIMA is split into Certificate, a standalone ‘beginner’ qualification, and Professional, which is split into three levels: Operational, Management, and Strategic.
The Certificate in Business Accounting (Cert BA) is your starting point if you’re new to accountancy. You’ll learn the fundamentals of business economics, financial accounting, management accounting, and ethical considerations of commercial activity.
The areas you will cover include:
- Fundamentals of Business Economics
- Fundamentals of Management Accounting
- Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
- Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law
Professional Level - The professional levels are each made up of three Objective Test subjects and one Case Study. You must pass all three Objective Tests before moving onto the Case Study, which tests what you’ve learned overall in the level.
CIMA Operational teaches you about organisational management, costs and analysis used in production, and financial reporting and taxation.
The areas you will cover include:
- Managing Finance in a Digital World
- Management Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Integrated Case Study
CIMA Management equips you with the skills to perform advanced management accounting and advanced financial reporting tasks. You’ll learn how to manage companies, from internal and external contexts.
The areas you will cover include:
- Managing Performance
- Advanced Management Accounting
- Advanced Financial Reporting
- Integrated Case Study
CIMA Strategic develops your leadership and strategic management abilities, and teaches you about risk management and financial strategy.
The areas you will cover include:
- Strategic Management
- Risk Management
- Financial Strategy
- Case Study
We’ve set our sights on dominating the global e-commerce fashion market, and because we’re 13 brands (and counting), there are plenty of opportunities to grow your career. Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception.
- You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes
- Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
- Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
- There’s up to 40% discount off our all of our brands
- Our social calendar? Next level
- With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe, we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the boohoo family culture wherever you work
