This role is based in our HQ office located at 40 High Street, Street, Somerset, BA16 0EQ. Candidates must be able to commute to HQ at least 2-3 days per week.
Job Overview :
Lead Finance Business Partner for UK & Europe Trade supporting all channel heads but specifically Head of Merchandising. Develop greater transparency to enable the Retail, Outlet & Ecommerce channels to deliver profitable growth. Responsible for understanding the regions pricing structure and commercial strategy. Finance owner for forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning, and financial reviews as well as ad hoc analytical support.
Responsibilities:
Deliver annual forecasting and budgeting processes, with great focus on NTO, GM and pairs. Fully engage Leadership teams in developing these plans to ensure understanding of performance against financial plans and targets.
Deliver complete performance visibility across all aspects including Footfall and Conversion performance along with driving trading activity.
Be the Finance Lead on Business Cases on stores openings, closures and transfers with great focus on profitability analysis.
Act as the lead in looking at product sell-through and inventory management to help mitigate aged inventory.
Partner with various key stakeholders across the business to ensure the robustness of the forecasting and variance analysis.
Provide feedback and challenge performance and delivery on a regular basis across multiple aspects of output, both in financial and operational metrics to influence leaders and provide expert view of position
Provide ad hoc analysis and financial vision to the leadership team to deliver value add commercial acumen that makes a difference in the performance of the business
Review, develop and improve Finance and Reporting processes to create efficiency and reduce non-essential workload.
Key support to the Head of Commercial Finance.
Qualifications:
Professionally qualified accountant either CPA (US qualification) ACA (Chartered), ACCA (Certified) or ACMA (Management) and with relevant and extensive commercial finance experience gained in operational roles during that period
Experience with People Management/Leadership.
Significant experience with end-to-end full cycle in commercial finance manager.
Experience working in a retail or consumer goods business. Good understanding of the challenges, dynamics and external factors impacting trading.
Highly effective at business partnering and operating credibly at senior management level.
In depth knowledge and experience of planning, budget and forecasting processes
Extensive analytical experience, ability to take large amounts of complex data and quickly identify key issues and drivers
Ability to provide financial information to high level stakeholders and proactively manage meetings.
Must have good experience in building financial business cases, identifying key assumptions and working across business stakeholders.
Disclaimer: This document describes the general nature and level of work only. It is not designed to cover an exhaustive list of all skills, activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Other activities, duties, and responsibilities may be added at any time. This description may be changed at the company’s discretion at any time, with or without notice.