About Us

Fittleworth Medical is a leading Dispensing Appliance Contractor (DAC) and provides a home dispensing service to over 60,000 clients across a wide range of products. Offering a cut-to-fit stoma product customisation service, we meet the diverse and individual needs of our clients. Fittleworth is part of the wider JDS Family and continues to be on a journey of rapid growth and transformation. Fittleworth provides a discreet and reliable home dispensing service through a dedicated Customer Service Team and 38 dispensing centres nationwide. At the heart of the business are Fittleworth’s 360 employees who live and breathe core principles to continue the Schneider legacy. 

Our Bold Behaviours

Live the Schneiders’ Legacy, our noble purpose
Passionately serves Our Mission and Vision, while demonstrating the Immutable Principles

Be People Focused
Builds trust and collaborates with an inclusive and empathetic approach

Be Customer Centric
Considers the needs, experience, and feedback of customers in all we do

Be Performance Driven
Operates with an ownership mindset, driving meaningful outcomes

Be Agile
Innovates and adapts quickly, approaching change with curiosity while persisting through obstacles

Role Summary

The Lead Financial Analyst’s key responsibilities are to build, enhance and maintain Fittleworth’s sales and gross margin financial models to feed into planning processes and monthly reporting and business partner review cycles. This role requires a 4 day onsite presence at the Winnersh office

Key Responsibilities

• Monthly consolidation, reporting and analysis of UK sales and margin results ensuring accuracy, completion and understanding of key drivers
• Provide Fittleworth Commercial Leadership Team with tracking vs budget and business partnering through monthly performance reviews
• Report and analyse monthly new patient referrals
• To support planning processes which include the Annual Operating Plan, Projection and Rolling Forecast providing consolidation, analysis and reports for sales and gross margin as appropriate and in accordance with issued guidelines and assumptions to ensure timely submissions as per timetables.
• Work closely with the Business Analyst to identify areas of automation
• Analyse competitor financial statements, market data and industry practices to inform modelling and business decision making.
• Support with month-end close where necessary
• To provide ad-hoc reviews / reports and participate in specific finance projects as or any other ad-hoc tasks as requested

Skills

• Good communication skills; Ability to build key internal relationships at all levels
• Showcase good written & oral communication skills
• Analytical
• Strong attention to detail
• Work to deadlines; Ability to work under pressure & prioritize
• Ability to work on own initiative, Self-starter & self-motivated
• Multi-tasking capability
•  Results orientated
• An enthusiastic & reliable team player

Experience

• Number of Overall Years Necessary within a finance role: 5-8
• An experienced analyst with financial forecasting / modelling experience
• Proven knowledge / experience of financial forecasting and diagnosis, corporate finance and information analysis
• Commercial experience / exposure to non-financial environments
• Knowledge of computing / planning systems; Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics, SAP/EDW, Power BI and BPC planning & reporting applications would be an advantage
• Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft applications particularly Excel and Power point: capable of advanced excel modelling. Knowledge of Power BI would be an advantage
• Degree level or equivalent education
  Part Qualified/Qualified Accountant Preferred (CIMA/ACCA)
  Fluent in English (written and verbal)

What we offer

• Life Insurance Cover x10 Annual Salary (subject to the T&C’s of the scheme)
• Competitive full pension scheme of 8.5% employer contribution
• Employee cost of private healthcare covered with option to add family members
• A comprehensive, embedded Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to our bespoke employee reward platform “Fittle-perks” providing amazing perks such as discounts across major retailers and access to an online Wellbeing Centre
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro-rated for part time Associates) with the option to buy and sell annual leave
• 1 Me Day, 1 Volunteer day per annum
• Enhanced support on family friendly policy
• Internal refer a friend/family scheme