Commercial Finance Business Partner

6 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom The Works Full time

**Commercial Finance Business Partner**

**Location**

Hybrid < 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill.

**Become a** **Commercial Finance Business Partner**

Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this role sits within an existing commercial team of six. In this role, you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making.

**Fancy a Qualification Whilst You Work? - Yes, we pay for that**

We are working with some amazing Apprenticeship providers who are designing something special for us. Later this year, there will be opportunity for you to earn whilst you learn and get qualifications up to degree level. Pretty cool, right?

**Our Culture**

The Works is an awesome place towell, work Our atmosphere is supportive, friendly, and inclusive. A second home-from-home where you can be your best and authentic _you_.

Our environment is always moving and full of energy. Yet we still make space to share must-watch TV recommendations and our favourite page-turners. Because even superheroes need some downtime to fuel their imaginations

**Our PERKS Are ‘The Works’**
- **25% Colleague Discount** - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days
- **MyWorks** - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more
- **Holiday **-33 days including bank holidays.
- **Holiday Purchase** - Purchase an additional 5 days.
- **Can-Do Academy** - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
- **Wagestream** - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them - for when ‘life’ happens
- **Share Scheme** - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works
- **24/7 support for you and your family** - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more
- **Healthcare Cash Plan** **- To support your everyday healthcare costs.
- **+ Loads more** - Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving.

**Your Mission**
- Dedicated Business Partner to The Works management team, building partnerships and strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams.
- Providing financial support to commercial decision making. Delivering analysis and insight that links financial reports to business strategies.
- Improving the impact, and understanding, of financial reporting on business performance; providing options and scenarios for business decisions
- Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered.
- Key leadership role in supporting the budgeting and forecast processes, providing support and challenge for budget holders, high-lighting risks, and opportunities, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Assisting with the development of new MI reporting, systems, and processes, embracing continuous improvement
- For areas of responsibility, ownership of the monthly management accounts and reporting to the board.

**Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart**

A fully qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA, with commercial business partnering experience, you will be able to demonstrate the following:

- Motivated and self-sufficient, using initiative to be pro-active.
- Naturally inquisitive and confident to challenge both accepted assumptions and processes.
- Collaborative approach with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to liaise with and influence colleagues at all levels.
- Commercially astute with a strong desire to understand the key levers in the business, and an ability to interpret numbers into meaningful insight, and communicate to the business.
- Ability to professionally challenge the business to make improvements to operational and financial performance.
- Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders
- Strong Excel and analytical skills, with attention to detail and able to work at pace under time pressure.
- Confidence to initiate process improvements and the tenacity to see them through to completion.
- Strong organisational skills, flexible and able to adapt quickly to deliver a fast turnaround on ad-hoc tasks.

**We Listen. We Care**

Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what’s going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you’ve ever worked You’ll have opportunity to help give us that direction.

**Our Purpose*

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