Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain.
Every day we feed one in three people in Ireland through 15 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave Market Place.
We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve.
We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too.
Our people are the heart of our business. As our greatest asset, they make Musgrave a great place to work and in return we aim to be the very best place to work, grow and thrive. We have an opportunity for a Financial Analyst to join our Trading Finance team.
The Financial Analyst will work closely with one of the six categories within the Trading Team. The primary role of the Financial Analyst will be to support, challenge and govern their category to achieve financial and operating targets. This will include the provision of timely Management Information for use within the Category and the wider Musgrave Business.
The Financial Analyst will also bring to life the wider ‘Protect and Grow’ Finance Strategy within the Category. A critical part of the role involves supporting (including the provision of value adding insights and commercial awareness) a monthly Category Business Review Meeting.

The main responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring that appropriate Governance systems and internal controls are implemented and maintained.
• Financial reporting and analysis of Sales, Income and Margin performance for the category. Investigate & understand variances and add value by providing insight & commentary to these reports.
• Preparation and Presenting of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for the category.
• Support of category trading initiatives / trials, and business initiatives
• Support of Income generating initiatives, which may include supplier meetings.
• Support on cross functional projects as required
• Ad-hoc analysis as required

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• Be a qualified accountant with a minimum of 3 years experience.
• A general business qualification would be an advantage.
• The ideal candidate will be highly numeric & analytical.
• A strong systems orientation including advanced Excel skills
• The ideal candidate should be a self-starter, with the ability to operate in a dynamic environment, demonstrate good attention to detail, good judgment showing logical decision making, with a proven ability to influence at a senior level in the organization.

* Please be advised this is an intial 12-Month Contract
Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer.
We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.
Musgrave operate a Work Smart hybrid working model where you can alternate your time between connecting and collaborating in the business and working remotely. Occasional business travel to other locations will also be required.

• Ensuring that appropriate Governance systems and internal controls are implemented and maintained.
• Financial reporting and analysis of Sales, Income and Margin performance for the category. Investigate & understand variances and add value by providing insight & commentary to these reports.
• Preparation and Presenting of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for the category.
• Support of category trading initiatives / trials, and business initiatives
• Support of Income generating initiatives, which may include supplier meetings.
• Support on cross functional projects as required
• Ad-hoc analysis as require