Retail Analyst

Working in our fast-paced Finance & Insights dept., this is a high-profile role positioned at the core of our retail operations (c£310m turnover; 210 stores nationwide and >1,000 colleagues) fostering a business partnering approach to provide financial insightsand support to retail decision making. As a Retail Analyst you will play a crucial part in the operation - driving process understanding, budgeting, forecasting, financial appraisal, and analysis and reporting; whilst building strong relationships with keystakeholders, highlighting opportunity and risk, and driving change. This is an exciting career opportunity for a Retail Analyst to make a significant difference to business performance with direct exposure to the Executive Board and senior managers acrossthe business. **What you'll be doing**: - Business partner to Retail team; providing analytical support, investment appraisal, Revenue/cost/contribution analysis to drive fast and relevant decision making - Challenge and communicate across all levels of organisation, high degree of exposure to senior teams - Prepare function specific reporting, KPI analysis, and insights into the key drivers of performance - Build/maintain intuitive dashboards using Tableau/Alteryx; to promote automation & self-serve - Interpret and understand complex data and translating this into value driven insight - Represent insights team, driving agenda through first class support, during budgeting/forecasting (including development of models) and month end meetings - Gather and maintain accurate and up-to-date records of data; and remain attuned to developments in the area - Work to tight deadlines, delivering outstanding level of credibility; reliability; completeness and accuracy **A bit about you**: - Commercial acumen; demonstrable industry experience; vast proven analytical/dashboarding experience - The right retail analyst will have the ability to interpret and understand data, identify trends/and patterns. working with analytical packages, with aptitude to learn new software and systems and critical thinking to provide recommendations - Professional communication skills: ability to build strong relationships across broad level of stakeholders - Highly motivated and resourceful, capable of working of own initiative, as individual or part of a team - Strong planning, organising and time management skills, accuracy, and adherence to deadlines **The good stuff we offer**: - Hybrid Working - On Site gym - Competitive salary - Discretionary yearly bonus - Amazing company discount on Dreams products - Discounts on 100's of high street & online brands including restaurants, holidays, and shopping - Optional buy in schemes including additional holiday, Simply Health, Savings and Loans - Life Assurance - Free onsite parking - Opportunities to progress within the Dreams team and across the global group - Access to the Retail Trust, our well-being platform - offering a 24-hour helpline for a variety of support services - Training and support packages to further your career **About Dreams**: We are the UKs leading retail bed specialist, with over 200 stores nationwide, a large online business and vertically integrated with our own Manufacturing and Supply Chain operations. The business is owned by the world's largest mattress manufacturer -Tempur Sealy Group, headquartered in the USA and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. We promote a People's first culture, with our customers and colleagues at heart of everything we do; we look after each other by listening and communicating daily. We operate flexible hybrid working and strive to champion simplicity and take sensible decisionsto do the right thing financially and ethically for our people and our planet. Our aim is to give great people great careers. We are ambitious, diligent, fun, and down to earth, working together at all levels of the business to deliver great customer experience.