Finance Business Partner

5 months ago

Hatfield, United Kingdom Ocado Retail Full time

**Vacancy No**
- VN573

**Job Type**
- Permanent

**Location**
- Hatfield

**Job Details**

We’re an exceptional and mighty bunch of colleagues who are inspired by our three awesome values**:Always be curious**, **Bring your best self,** and **Challenge what's possible**.

We have ambitious plans and vision to never-stop making our customers' lives better, by delivering the supermarket of today, tomorrow.

**Role Profile**

Reporting to our Senior Finance Manager - Ambient, you will be the trusted Business Partner to one of our Buying Directors for a Grocery Category team and help support them grow through commercial insight.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Be the trusted business partner for one of our Grocery category teams (we have 6 teams), supporting the Buying Director and Senior Buyers in the team
- Proactively advise with price, promotion and buying decisions on a daily basis, and be the finance expert for the category
- Provide regular, robust and insightful reporting around trade performance, understanding mix vs rate analysis and how the various brands are driving performance
- Ensure trade decisions are actioned from the data to improve performance
- Working with our data insight colleagues, cut through the data to enable better & faster commercial decision making, ensuring we provide our customers with the most comprehensive and compelling ranges
- Support in annual business plans with suppliers to negotiate the best deal for Ocado, then monitor performance against agreed targets throughout the year, advising on course corrections if required
- Own the forecasting process for your category, making forecasting accuracy improvements and enabling key trade drivers to be understood
- Work closely with your peers within the Commercial Finance team to standardise processes across categories and share analysis or best practice
- Lead and develop more junior members of the wider commercial finance team

**Skills & Experience Required**
- Qualified accountant - 3 + years post qualified, with Strong academics
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Strong Excel skills
- Highly numerate and analytical with a keen eye for detail that is deadline focused and goal oriented
- Enthusiastic to learn
- Commercial finance experience
- Experience of grocery retail/FMCG is desirable but not essential

**Personal Characteristics**
- Excellent communication skills and able to build relationships with key stakeholders, both internal & external to the business
- An organized individual that is able to function in a team environment
- An adaptable and responsive person that is open to change and suggestions
- Prepared to go the extra mile and ensure that the job is well done and not just completed
- Dedicated to detail, quality and accuracy
- Highly numerate and analytical with a keen eye for detail that is deadline focused and goal oriented
- Methodical, organised and responds quickly to change, whilst demonstrating a proactive approach
- Forges effective relationships across teams and external advisors easily
- Enthusiastic to learn

**What We Offer You**

We want our colleagues to feel supported and secure here at Ocado Retail, which is why we have a great range of useful benefits for them to scoop up - and they’re now available to easily learn about using our new platform ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’. Our flexible benefits range from tasty lifestyle discounts to trusty private medical insurance.
- These benefits can also be customised so you can pick and choose to best suit your lifestyle.
- **Core Rewards**
- Annual bonus scheme - maximum opportunity dependent on the role
- 26 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
- Up to 7% matched pension contributions (e.g. 7% from you, 7% from us)
- 50% income protection
- 4x salary life insurance
- 20% Marks and Spencer discount
- Company-paid private medical insurance for colleagues with the opportunity to add partners/children at corporate rates and Digital GP service
- Hybrid Working (2-3 days a week connecting, collaborating, and learning together with our colleagues)

**Health & Wellbeing**
- Private Medical Insurance
- Critical Illness
- DigiCare+
- Healthcare Cashplan
- Health Assessment
- Dental Insurance
- Eyecare Vouchers
- Digital GP
- Mental Health

**Flexible Benefits**
- Tax-efficient electric vehicle leasing scheme
- Access to a retail discount platform, providing discounts and cashback

**On-site at Apollo**
- Free onsite parking and free shuttle service from Hatfield station
- Regular socials, including Town Halls and Mixers & our ORL Summer Party
- ‘The Fig’ (serving breakfast, snacks, and lunch), coffee cart, as well as small kitchens (with unlimited refreshments and fresh fruit available every day) and vending machines on each floor.
- As part of our inclusive nature, help make change within the business and join any of our Networks

**Travel to Apollo**

We have free onsite parking at Apollo Court, as well as a free shuttle bus service that runs frequ

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