Jake Hobbs
Yeovil,Somerset
Summary
Logical and grounded individual with expertise in data integrity maintenance and financial reporting. Proficient in advanced Excel, business intelligence tools, and Microsoft Power BI, with a strong focus on clarity, simplification and reporting techniques.
Demonstrates exceptional skills with reporting cadence, reconciliations, and process improvement.
Adept at dataset analysis and data modelling to drive informed business decisions. Committed to leveraging analytical skills for continuous process enhancement and analysis.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Payroll administrator
Screwfix
Yeovil, Somerset
2025.08 - 2026.05
- Enhanced payroll efficiency by streamlining the BAU processes and tasks.
- Assisted with financial audit requests to assure complete transparency of payroll operations.
- Reduced errors in data entry through rigorous attention to detail.
- Managed upload of colleague timesheets between systems, ensuring accurate reflection of employees' working hours.
- Managed employee records on database to maintain accuracy including amendments to colleague shares interests.
- Overseen end to end process related to data submissions to third party service providers.
Commercial Finance Analyst
Screwfix
Yeovil, Somerset
2024.06 - 2025.08
- Improved financial reporting by streamlining data analysis processes.
- Modelled financial information related to payroll, capital projects and operating costs for prospective new retail sites.
- Collaborated closely with colleagues in delivery of annual submissions to group.
- Developed and updated financial models to support ongoing budgeting and forecasting processes for retail sites.
- Provided detailed analysis and actionable insights of product trends to support and influence business decisions.
- Evaluated financial data from multiple sources to produce accurate return on capital spend for retail sites, providing great insight to profitibility.
Data Reporting Analyst
Screwfix
Yeovil, Somerset
2021.02 - 2024.06
- Efficient collaboration with colleagues to deliver improvement to business intelligence tools and provide reporting solutions.
- Influenced and collaborated with senior leadership as a business SME for finance data.
- Development and delivery of automated reporting tools including large dataset to give insight on retail performance.
- Proven reliability and flexibility to act as a finance data point of contact whilst delivering accurate side of desk and ad hoc requests.
Trade Counter Stock Analyst
Screwfix
Yeovil, Somerset
2018.02 - 2021.02
- Accurate reconciliation of large datasets relating to business stock returns, shrinkage and stock extraction from retail sites for accounting purposes.
- Maintenance and growth of effective working relationships with external stakeholders including travel to meet periodically in person.
- Development of dashboard style reporting for internal stakeholders
- Delivery of automated reporting tools used in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Education
Certificate of Higher Education - Sport & Physical Education
University of Bedfordshire
Luton 2012.09 - 2014.09
Skills
- Data integrity maintenance
- Monthly reconciliations
- Visualization and reporting techniques
- Advanced excel proficiency
- Business intelligence tools
- Financial reporting
- Data Entry
- Process Improvement
- Trend Analysis
- Dataset analysis
- Data Modelling
- Microsoft Power BI
- Financial analysis
- Data automation
Affiliations
- Football
- Nature & Animals
- History
Timeline
Payroll administrator
Screwfix
2025.08 - 2026.05
Commercial Finance Analyst
Screwfix
2024.06 - 2025.08
Data Reporting Analyst
Screwfix
2021.02 - 2024.06
Trade Counter Stock Analyst
Screwfix
2018.02 - 2021.02
Certificate of Higher Education - Sport & Physical Education
University of Bedfordshire
2012.09 - 2014.09