Finance Analyst

Commercial Finance at Global

Central to the continued success of Global is having a world-class finance team supporting, advising, and challenging the business.  This is an industry and business model where strategy evolves rapidly, decisions and trade-offs are complex and there’s no shortage of good ideas.  Commercial Finance need to play an increasingly catalytic and strategic role in decision making and delivery.

Business partnering is about being a trusted advisor to the business.  Forward looking analysis that drives brilliant decision making and value creation.  We have exciting plans and growth opportunities.  We need smart, engaged thinkers who can build trust and advocacy with the business, partnering with them to explore, decide and deliver.

This is a great role to land into. Providing the platform to influence the agenda on high profile initiatives, working closely with Board members and senior decision makers across the business.  With an exciting finance career path beyond the role.

Finance Analyst – Outdoor Gross Margin

As a Finance Analyst in the Outdoor Gross Margin team, you’ll play a key role in shaping strategic decisions that drive growth, efficiency and value across the Outdoor business. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders and support relationships with our key commercial and franchise partners, delivering impactful financial planning and analysis.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, detail orientated professional to support sustainable revenue growth and optimise gross margins by contributing to budgets, forecasts, investment decisions and data analysis. It’s ideal for someone who enjoys working with complex data, wants to deepen their commercial and strategic finance skills and thrives in a fast‑paced environment.

What You’ll Love About This Role

Think Big: Influence high impact decisions and work closely with senior leaders across the business.

Own It: Play a key part in managing our franchise and commercial relationships, including monitoring, reporting, financial planning and insightful analysis.

Keep it Simple: Turn complex data into clear, actionable insights. Simplify processes, and help the business stay focused on what matters most.

Better Together: Collaborate with cross functional teams by building trust and strong working relationships.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you will:

• Understand and own the reporting cycles to our key partners, with a focus on accuracy and transparency.

• Develop and maintain financial models and data sets to understand, track and explain performance.

• Support the delivery of forecasts, budgets and reporting packs used by senior stakeholders to shape decisions.

• Use monthly performance data to highlight risks and opportunities and help drive action within the business.

• Build effective working relationships across Finance, Commercial, Operations and Sales, becoming a go‑to person for insight on our partnerships.

Your Responsibilities

• Financial Analysis (20%): Analyse financial and operational data to identify trends, risks, opportunities and performance drivers, translating findings into practical recommendations.

• Forecasting Support (20%): Support budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting, challenging assumptions and ensuring plans reflect the latest business outlook.

• Tender & Commercial Support (20%): Provide financial analysis and modelling to support renewals, tenders, pricing proposals and other commercial initiatives.

• Performance Reporting (20%):  Work closely with our Reporting Hub function to deliver weekly and monthly reporting, providing clear insight into revenue, gross margin, occupancy and operational performance.

• Data Integrity & Reporting (10%): Help ensure financial data is accurate, reliable and accessible, supporting governance and alignment with group targets.

• Stakeholder Support (10%): Partner with Commercial, Operations, Sales and Finance teams to provide timely insight, answer queries and support informed decision‑making.

• Reporting & Insight Development: Improve reporting processes, dashboards and performance metrics to enhance visibility of key business drivers.

• Ad Hoc Analysis: Support senior stakeholders with scenario modelling, business cases and other ad hoc analysis.

Your Skills, Experience and Mindset

• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills, with experience working with complex data and performance reporting.

• Confident using Excel and financial planning tools; exposure to BI or data visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI) is an advantage.

• Proactive and curious, comfortable asking questions, challenging assumptions and solving business problems.

• Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

• Effective communicator, able to present complex information clearly to finance and non‑finance stakeholders.

• Able to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels and think holistically about risks, opportunities and value drivers.

• Open‑minded about background: you may be newly qualified in a finance role in industry, or bring similar experience from advisory, consultancy, transaction services, M&A or corporate finance. We’re especially interested in people who have gravitated towards commercial and strategic work rather than pure controllership.