Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Finance Business Partner - Transformation Leading Retail Group Walsall | Hybrid working 2 - 3 days inUp to £65,000 + 15% bonus + Car allowance + lots of other benefitsA great opportunity for a motivated Business Partner that enjoys pace. You will have the ability to running lots of projects at once and enjoy building great relationships across the business. The role will definitely offer you a lot of exposure withinthe Transformation team. Playing a really key part in supporting the business and stores, along with on-going growth. Not only in the store area but also within their digital and enhancing their customer experience.The role requires a highly skilled and experineced Business Analyst with experience looking at large complex data and being a key insight in delivery to senior stakeholders such as Head of Strategy and Head of Retail and many more. This will give you non-stopexposures to lots of highly skilled Management across the business, along with working very closely with the Finance teams.The role: Reporting into the Strategy and Transformation Finance Controller and supporting the Strategy & Transformation team on key areas of growth. Linking into wider core business functions to support, challenge and aid delivery of growth streams. Well look for youto identify key risks and opportunities, working with different business areas to ensure performance targets are met and objectives achieved.This is a broad role where you will work alongside Directors, Senior Managers, and budget holders to provide information, analysis, insight and support areas across the business. This will include varying focus across, commercial, retail, digital, property,store development, supply chain and wider finance functions.This is a true business partnering role where you will embed yourself within the function supporting leaders and decision makers of the respective area, offering financial guidance, challenge, routine and objective opinion when assessing growth opportunities.

• Help drive a consistent and challenging weekly, monthly and quarterly performance review process, utilising key financial and non-financial metrics and an understanding of how these factors align to performance
• Understand the key metrics the business uses and, alongside operational colleagues, review whether they are still appropriate, fit for purpose and aligned to driving performance
• Develop the teams to be more self-sufficient when it comes to analysis and insight, again ensuring consistency across the function
• Automating ongoing reporting to enable more time spent to be spent on analysing
• Ability to deliver ad-hoc insight whilst understanding the balance between value and effort required for the output
• Streamlining of reporting utilising a systematic approach
• Drive for consistency across reporting and performance reviews within wider operational teams and finance function
• Review the current annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes with the Finance Controller and, where appropriate, plan and implement improvements
• Drive efficiency and ways of working through actionable insight utilising large and complex datasets
• Embed yourself in the business, becoming a trusted and supportive partner to allow critical challenge and consensus on forward approach across areas with varying internal priorities
• Presentation at senior strategic meetings, ensuring detail remains focused on valuable and actionable insight allowing decisions to be made
• Modelling options, investments and strategic plans to highlight areas of strength and risk, providing this to senior stakeholders enabling decision making
• Ongoing tracking, investment reviews, performance vs expectations and full autopsy into what went well, why and what can be done to improve or remedy. Using this review to rebase expectations and provide recommendations to senior leadership team
• Working with relevant stakeholders to ensure a robust budgeting and planning process.
• Supporting the introduction of a lower level P&L by category across all relevant P&L lines utilising insight and enhanced forecasting methods to improve future planning

What youll need...

• Qualified accountant, ideally CIMA or ACCA
• Strategic thinker who can act independently
• Strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills who can interact well with colleagues at all levels
• Well-developed business partnering skills able to become a trusted partner who can ask and be asked the difficult questions in order to deliver to targets.
• A leader, who can motivate and coach others to achieve objectives.
• Drive, enthusiasm and tenacity.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong ability of how to take indefinite data questions and translate them in to reporting, insight and outputs in a seamless and efficient way
• Power Query, Power Pivot and Power BI preferred but not essential.
• Experience in a multi-site environment essential, Retail sector is preferable
• An effective planner and implementer - able to make things happen.
• Proven success in working in a Finance Business Partner role

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