Finance Business Partner

3 days ago

Southampton, United Kingdom Kingfisher Full time

Overview:
We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles.

Your role as a Finance Business Partner, Portfolio Financial Planning & Analysis, will be to partner across the Group Tech & Digital Finance team in Southampton. You’ll act as a key business partner to members of the leadership team and their teams by leading the finance activities around the Projects Portfolio (Tech project investment significantly exceeding £100m per year). You will also be responsible for interpreting and presenting financial information to key partners, providing value advice & challenge.

What's the job?:
**What you’ll be doing**:

- Business Partner three Tech Directors
- FP&A activity on the Projects Portfolio to ensure spend on projects is accurately reported and forecasted
- Responsible for significant annual portfolio investment, working with the Kingfisher Group Investment Committee
- Designing value reporting for analysts to develop and run, supported by two Analysts in our team based in Krakow
- Work in partnership with the Strategy & Transformation Director as the function goes through transformation
- Understand the drivers of the IT cost base to allow early visibility of spend variances and provide commercial and cost challenge to the business
- Make Group Tech costs visible and transparent in a clear ‘non-financial’ manner to identify actions to drive opportunities and mitigate risks, plus understand any risks/opportunities to deliver required financial targets
- Provide the first stage review of business cases for Group Tech projects, linking these through to budgets and forecasts as well as post investment reviews
- Support the development of consistent processes across all Portfolio areas to ensure a standardised approach to any consolidated financial view
- Provide support to ad hoc initiatives around the portfolio, improving the governance and control environment around planning
- Actively drive the Portfolio 3YP and budgeting cycle

What we need:
**What experience you’ll bring**:

- Qualified Accountant - ACA, ACCA or CIMA (or equivalent)
- Experience in finance business partnering
- A phenomenal relationship builder and challenging where appropriate
- Strong ability to interpret financial information and deploy it optimally across the business
- A proactive approach to driving efficiencies and improvements across teams
- Dynamic and forward-thinking individual
- Budget & forecasting experience
- Power BI experience
- Advanced financial modelling and forecasting to build and produce different scenarios and analysis, for example within a Commercial finance function
- Technical accounting, especially around capital investment

**What we offer**:
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We’re adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office. Your office location? This person will be UK based with our Head Office in Southampton, or we could explore the option of being based in one of our other retail banners head offices.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

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