Senior Finance Manager Commercial (Category)

Senior Finance Manager Commercial

Permanent

£70,000 - £80,000 Depending on experience + Pension + PMI + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working  

Southampton, Store Support Office

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. 

This role provides strategic insight and decision making support to the commercial categories. The role also plays a key part of leading the overall Business Performance function, working collaboratively to ensure cross functional business impacts are considered and aiding career progression within the analyst population.

• Partner with the Category Directors, providing key insight to help drive performance and influence decision making
• Take the lead on business partnering across all commercial categories, providing support to the Business Partner and analyst population
• Provide challenge to the commercial categories to ensure meaningful decisions are made, taking account of both short and long term impacts
• Develop key assumptions to support short and long term planning including advice on trade-offs and opportunities
• Bring clarity of targets and drive accountability of ownership through effective communication, MI and performance review
• Tracking progress against targets throughout the year in order to be able to advise on timely corrective action plans where necessary
• Educate and coach commercial teams to improve financial acumen and awareness
• Ensure end to end business ownership, across all P&L lines and business channels
• Provide the right level of governance & control over key trading decisions
• Use business knowledge & judgement to prioritise where Finance can most influence risks & opportunities
• Develop strong working relationships & process with other Finance teams to bring simplicity, control & business improvement
• Management and development of two direct reports, role modelling values and behaviours within Business Performance
• Effective planning and prioritising, making decisions about commercial finance team resource and managing stakeholder expectations
• Deputy for Head of Commercial Finance across the category agenda

• >5 years post qualified experience, preferably in a fast paced retail environment
• Ability to problem solve complex issues and recommend actions in a clear & concise manner
• Strong stakeholder management skills, working collaboratively and influencing effectively
• Excellent communication skills, able to flex style to different audiences
• Resilience in a high pressure environment with positive attitude to change / ambiguity
• End to end thinker - joins up business issues and external factors, and looks for root causes

Essential:

Professional accountancy qualification (i.e. CIMA / ACCA / ACA etc)

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact ssorecruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.