Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago


Wakefield West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Agility Resoucing Full time

Helping our business achieve its targets for sales, margin and inventory is a challenging, interesting and varied job We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join us on the next phase of the journey. In this highly commercial and forward-looking role, you are finance business partner to our Buying and Merchandise Planning teams, focusing on product performance. You will help determine challenging but achievable plans for the business to achieve its ambitions. And you will identify areas of commercial risk and opportunity to improve results and help the organisation learn and grow. You will have line management responsibility for a Commercial Finance Analyst.
Bonus 5%
Hybrid working from our Wakefield head office (minimum 1 day per week but the rest fully flexible)
Ensure visibility and understanding of accurate financial and non-financial KPIs daily, weekly and monthly. In collaboration with IT, develop the reporting information available by the business via our automated BI platform.
Embed deliverable and challenging targets in the forecast, and capture risks and opportunities. Participate in decision-making forums, planning for new seasons, reviewing seasonal performance and contributing to strategic direction. Produce buy plan proposals for seasonal inventory purchases and review performance after the season. Interpret performance of sales and extended profitability at a product and category level for our sales channels. Perform variance analysis of sales, gross profit and stock to support the challenges and galvanise action 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. Help the business learn from past actions and identify new opportunities.
Play a full part in developing and motivating the wider Finance team. Work with your colleagues to help them achieve their objectives and realise their potential through personal development.
Graduate calibre, qualified accountant or MBA who is commercially minded
Strong commercial background, gained either via an industry route or through an advisory function in a large professional services organisation
Proven ability to build productive business relationships with a wide network of finance and non-finance colleagues
Intellectual curiosity to understand the financial and non-financial drivers of the business and their implications for decision-makers
Excellent verbal and written communication styles and confidence to influence a variety of senior stakeholders
Love to bring insight and challenge to the business to improve revenues and profitability
Strong analytical and Excel skills, honed in an environment of working with complex financial models
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