Lead Data Analyst (Financial)
Role: Lead Data Analyst (Financial)
Location: Leeds LS15 (with hybrid working after completion of training)
Salary: £40 – 60k 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 performance
- Maintain 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 Analytics
- Expertise 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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Join us as a Lead Data Analyst (Financial) at our dynamic company, a leader in the online pharmacy industry. Based in Leeds LS15, this role comes with a competitive salary range of £40k to £60k, depending on experience, plus a fantastic range of benefits that prioritize your wellbeing and professional growth. In this pivotal position, you will provide critical insights that drive decision-making across our organization. Your role will focus on delivering precise revenue and margin reports while collaborating closely with our finance team to ensure strategic alignment and financial efficiency. You'll analyze historical performance to recognize trends, support budgeting and forecasting, and maintain robust financial data pipelines. The best part? We value our employees and provide perks such as generous parental leave, a contributory pension scheme, and even discounts at various local establishments. As a key partner in enhancing our financial practices, you'll have a significant impact on cash flow optimization and share your data-driven insights with senior stakeholders. Embrace this opportunity to make a real difference in a company that puts its employees and patients first, all within a hybrid working environment once you complete your training. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, we'd love to hear from you!
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