Finance analyst - Commercial Open to Job Share, Full Time or Part Time £45,000-£55,000 Bonus Pension BUPA ShareSave 6.6 weeks holiday Southampton, Store Support Office, Hybrid working, 3 days a week in the office This role provides financial business partnering to the B&Q commercial team, providing support, advice and challenge on key commercial activity - Lead the financial support for the commercial category — acting as the go-to finance partner for the category team and ensuring strong alignment between commercial priorities and financial objectives. - Proactively manage the category’s financial agenda — delivering accurate and insightful reporting on trading, margin, planning, and strategic investments. - Take ownership of your workload and projects, effectively prioritising and managing time to meet key deadlines. - Maintain a forward-looking approach to managing category performance, identifying and managing potential risks & opportunities on a short- and long-term basis - Lead the financial management of key commercial investments, including robust business case development and appropriate performance tracking to inform category decisions - Develop scenario modelling and what-if analysis to validate, challenge and influence ad-hoc category strategic and tactical proposals - Support categories on the financial management of vendors, providing net profitability and cashflow modelling and recommendations - Take ownership of commercial related costs and support the accounting team in ensuring they are correctly accounted for - Be an active participant in the wider finance agenda — ensuring category activity is considered across other areas such as channels, operations, and supply. - Present clear, concise messages to non-finance stakeholders — simplifying complex data into actionable insight. - Collaborate across the commercial finance team to share best practices and improve analytical approaches. - Deputise for the Senior Commercial Finance Manager as required. Required Skills & Experience: · Excellent written and verbal communication skills · Ability to analyse, interpret and distil complex information using judgement & offering recommendations. · Self-starter with ability to critically prioritise in fast paced environment · High resilience with an ability to produce high quality work under pressure Essential Technical / Professional Qualifications: · Competent user of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint · Professional accountancy qualification with 2 yrs post qual experience (i.e. CIMA / ACCA / ACA etc) · Drives Improvements & looks for opportunities across processes / performance / themselves · Commercial experience preferable