About Total Fitness
We’re Total Fitness, a leading health club brand in the North of England and Wales. We’re there for every fitness moment no matter the age, life stage, or workout preference. We have 15 supersize health clubs with learn to swim academies on site. In 2024, we opened 2 new gyms purposefully designed for women, The Women’s Gym by Total Fitness.
Driven by the belief that everyone is better fitter, we work hard to fulfil our customer promise of providing the spaces and opportunities that empower our customers to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
Our Customer Promise
In this role, you'll play a key part in bringing our service principles to life by providing the insight, analysis and forecasting that help us make better decisions for our members, colleagues and business:
- We keep it simple: We say no to complexity.
- We enable your joining journey: We know when & how to sell.
- We support your start point: We know the first visit counts, we make it, not break it.
- We’re in the wings: We’re ready to lead in moments of uncertainty.
- We create familiarity: We’re not done until our gym feels like your gym.
Benefits
- Possibility Points to invest in your growth, giving you access to our Growth Library of opportunities across the business.
- Free membership for you and a loved one, plus two discounted memberships after probation.
- 28 days holiday including bank holidays (pro rata for part time), increasing with service.
- Workplace pension scheme.
- Death in Service benefit.
- Discounts on retail and café products.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
Role Purpose
As a Commercial FP&A Analyst, you play an important role in helping Total Fitness understand current performance and make informed decisions about the future. Through high-quality analysis, forecasting and commercial insight, you support strategic planning and help leaders understand the opportunities and risks facing the business.
Working closely with Finance, Membership, Operations and Data teams, you turn data into meaningful insights that drive decision-making. You provide robust financial analysis, support business planning activities and help shape initiatives that improve performance, member outcomes and long-term value creation.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Planning and Forecasting
- Support the annual budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes across the business.
- Take ownership of budgeting and forecasting activities for designated profit and loss areas.
- Support the consolidation of budgets and forecasts across the integrated P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow.
- Monitor financial performance against budget and forecast, identifying risks and opportunities.
- Provide accurate and timely analysis that supports financial planning activities.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of the business's Value Creation Plan.
2. Commercial Analysis and Insight
- Analyse financial and operational performance to identify key trends and business drivers.
- Develop meaningful insight that supports decision-making across the organisation.
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of commercial initiatives and business activities.
- Support pricing analysis and provide recommendations that maximise value and performance.
- Use financial and non-financial data to identify opportunities for growth and efficiency.
- Present findings clearly and concisely to a variety of stakeholders.
3. Business Partnering and Stakeholder Support
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across Membership, Operations, Data and Support Centre teams.
- Support non-finance colleagues in understanding financial performance and business trends.
- Provide reporting and analysis that helps teams make informed decisions.
- Translate complex financial information into meaningful business insights.
- Support strategic discussions through the provision of robust financial data and commentary.
- Act as a trusted partner to stakeholders across the organisation.
4. Strategic Projects and Performance Reporting
- Support strategic initiatives including pricing, member growth, operational efficiency programmes and investment appraisals.
- Contribute to new site evaluations and commercial business cases.
- Prepare analysis and presentation materials for the Senior Leadership Team, Board, lenders and shareholders.
- Monitor key business performance indicators and provide regular reporting.
- Support project teams with ad hoc analysis and financial modelling.
- Help ensure reporting remains accurate, relevant and actionable.
5. Continuous Improvement and Teamwork
- Look for opportunities to improve reporting, forecasting and financial processes.
- Challenge existing ways of working and identify more efficient approaches.
- Support the development of data-driven decision-making across the business.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across Finance and the wider organisation.
- Take ownership of personal development and professional learning.
- Represent Total Fitness values and bring our customer promise to life through your everyday actions.
What You'll Bring to the Role
- Humility – You listen openly, collaborate effectively and value different perspectives when solving problems and supporting decision-making.
- Hunger – You take ownership, seek continuous improvement and are motivated to deliver meaningful commercial insight.
- People Smart – You build strong relationships, communicate financial information clearly and adapt your approach to different audiences.
What We're Looking For
We're less focused on specific job titles and more interested in your ability to analyse data, generate insight and support commercial decision-making:
- Newly qualified or part qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
- Experience within an FP&A, Commercial Finance or Financial Analysis role.
- Strong Excel skills, including the ability to work with large datasets, advanced formulas and pivot tables.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
- Experience presenting analysis and financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- High attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment.
This role may also suit you if you bring...
- Experience using SQL to analyse and interrogate large datasets.
- Experience developing dashboards and reports in Power BI.
- Experience within multi-site, retail, hospitality, leisure or consumer-facing businesses.
- Experience supporting pricing, investment appraisal or strategic business initiatives.
- Knowledge of integrated financial planning and forecasting processes.
- Experience working with both financial and operational performance measures.
Please note that this role is subject to an enhanced DBS check. If you do not currently hold a valid enhanced DBS certificate and your application is successful, Total Fitness will cover the cost.
If you think you can make a huge difference to our members experience, and have the passion to deliver, don't waste any time and click apply now!
Pay: £40,000.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Wilmslow SK9 3PE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- FP&A, Commercial Finance or Financial Analysis role: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA - Newly Qualified or Part Qualified (required)
Work Location: In person
