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Finance Data Analyst (Purchase)

Halfords
West Midlands
1 week ago
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Halfords Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

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About Us

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

The role

As a Finance Reporting Analyst at Halfords, you’ll play a vital role in shaping how financial data flows through the business. We’re looking for someone to take full ownership of supplier reporting, stock movement analysis, and financial data integrity across the board. You’ll turn raw data into trusted insight, helping us report with confidence and make better decisions.

With a sharp analytical mind and a love of problem solving, you’ll take manual, spreadsheet-heavy processes and transform them into clean, automated, auditable reports. You’ll work with various teams across finance, operations, shared services and data to collate, reconcile, and implement supplier data into our platform, ensuring it’s accessible and actionable for the wider business.

For the right person, this is a chance to take a blank canvas and make it better - owning the process, driving change, and leaving a lasting mark on how reporting is done across a major national business. You'll have space to grow, support to deliver, and a clear opportunity to add real value from day one.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build strong working relationships across internal teams and with external suppliers to support accurate and timely reporting.
  • Lead the implementation of robust processes and controls for data receipt, preparation, transformation, and reporting.
  • Document key reporting processes and methodologies to ensure clarity, consistency, and ease of future adoption.
  • Improve reporting accuracy to consistently exceed 99%, enhancing trust and reliability in financial data.
  • Collate and prepare weekly data from both preferred and non-preferred suppliers to feed into core financial processes.
  • Partner with the financial reporting team to deliver accurate inventory movement and cost of sales reconciliations, right down to garage level.
  • Drive automation of data collection and integration into pipelines, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
  • Provide ad hoc data analysis and manipulation support to the finance team, turning complex data into actionable insights.

About You

  • Proven experience in data analysis or financial reporting roles, with a strong grasp of business needs and data-driven decision making.
  • Advanced Excel skills with the ability to clean, manipulate, and interpret complex datasets for reporting and insight.
  • Comfortable working with large volumes of supplier data and financial inputs to support cost of sales and inventory reporting.
  • Experience preparing data for use in finance systems and reporting tools, with a clear focus on accuracy and usability.
  • Confident working cross-functionally to build strong relationships across finance, operations, and external supplier networks.
  • Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a logical approach to problem-solving and data reconciliation.
  • Technically curious and self-motivated, with a hands-on approach and a desire to improve systems and processes.
  • Experience with Power BI, Databricks, or similar data visualisation/reporting tools, and working knowledge of SQL or Python for querying and analysing datasets would be highly desirable but not essential.

Reward & Benefits

  • A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
  • Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
  • We offer hybrid working with a blend of working in our Support Centre and from home.
  • You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
  • Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 2 days on site at our Support Centre in Redditch, Worcestershire.Seniority level

  • Seniority levelNot Applicable

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionResearch, Analyst, and Information Technology
  • IndustriesRetail

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