Finance Analyst

Finance Analyst
(Fixed-term (12 months) | Hybrid | Kraków)

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We also offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career: 

• Fixed-term contract (12 months with the possibility of extension depending on the business situation)
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

Role purpose:

Supporting the Investment Planning and Control Manager in analytical tasks to ensure compliance with budgets and adherence to the corporate rules applied within the Group.

Responsibilities:

Participating in the preparation of the company’s investment plan to secure the budget for planned investments:

• Collecting and consolidating investment expenditure proposals from all divisions
• Obtaining explanations regarding the rationale for proposed investments
• Implementing changes to the proposed plan and informing the relevant business owners

Controlling investment expenditures to ensure budget execution:

• Preparing tools (reports) by responsibility centers to enable effective budget control
• Preparing reports and communicating budget performance by responsibility centers
• Together with, and at the request of, the Investment Planning and Control Manager: analyzing reports, drawing and documenting conclusions, and preparing updated forecasts of expected investment levels for the financial year

Financial modelling of proposed investments to assess their profitability:

• Preparing performance reports for newly opened stores or other investments according to the Manager’s guidelines and established KPIs
• Conducting critical analysis of results and explaining deviations from project assumptions
• Presenting conclusions from return‑on‑investment analyses to department management

Monitoring the performance of new investments to assess returns:

• Preparing performance reports for new stores or other investments based on defined KPIs
• Critically analyzing results and explaining deviations from project assumptions
• Presenting conclusions to department management

Supporting the Financial Planning and Analysis Department in analytical tasks:

• Performing ad hoc financial analyses as requested by the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis
• Participating in the budgeting and financial planning process within the scope assigned by the Head of the department

Managing the return‑on‑capital‑employed analysis for the entire company to improve profitability:

• Preparing ROCE (Return on Capital Employed) analysis for the entire company, broken down by profit centers

Qualifications:

• Approximately 3 years of experience in evaluating investment projects
• University degree in finance, accounting, or a related economic field
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly MS Excel
• Polish language skills C1
• English language skills B2