Job description
This is a fantastic opportunity for a fully qualified and experienced Finance Business Partner to play a pivotal role in driving financial excellence and strategic decision-making within a fast paced, exciting and every growing UK retail brand!
Joining the established and talented commercial finance team, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, provide insightful analysis, and contribute to the growth and success of the business.
**This is a 6 month fixed term contract starting ASAP!***
The role would be ideally suited to someone fully qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with solid commercial finance/FBP experience within a bigger business/fast paced working environment***
Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, the key duties will include:
The successful candidate will:
What's on offer?
Joining the established and talented commercial finance team, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, provide insightful analysis, and contribute to the growth and success of the business.
**This is a 6 month fixed term contract starting ASAP!***
The role would be ideally suited to someone fully qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with solid commercial finance/FBP experience within a bigger business/fast paced working environment***
Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, the key duties will include:
- Performance measures to support and challenge the business
- Ensure visibility and understanding of accurate financial and non-financial KPIs daily, weekly and monthly
- In partnership with internal stakeholders, create detailed plans which underpin the company budget and support their growth ambitions.
- Work to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of planning and forecasting processes.
- Participate in decision-making forums, business planning, reviewing business performance and contributing to strategic direction.
- Review and influence buy plan proposals for inventory purchases and review performance.
- Produce insight into product profitability, incorporating directly attributable costs.
- Interpret performance of sales and extended profitability, perform variance analysis of sales, gross profit and stock to keep performance on target.
- Identify operational levers that will drive improvements and influence business partners to deliver the right business outcomes, balancing sales, profit and inventory implications.
The successful candidate will:
- Be fully qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA - Essential
- Have a strong commercial finance background, gained within industry - Essential
- Have a proven ability to build productive business relationships with a wide network of finance and non-finance colleagues - Essential
- Love to bring insight and challenge to the business to improve revenues and profitability - Essential
- Have strong analytical and Excel skills, honed in an environment of working with complex financial models - Essential
What's on offer?
- 5-15% Bonus (depending on personal and business performance)
- Hybrid working - 2 days office based (as a minimum - you can do more if you would prefer!)
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Quarterly incentive schemes
- Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
- Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave
