[ref. b06020404] Wakefield - Lead Data Analyst (Financial)
Location: Leeds LS15 (with hybrid working after completion of training)
Salary: £40 – 50k 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 performanceMaintain 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 AnalyticsExpertise 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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