We are recruiting for a Finance Business Partner in the Convenience area, supporting trading plans, ensuring financial actions are followed up, and acting as the key finance contact for the commercial team. The role involves reviewing category P&Ls, managing aged debt, and providing insights on sales, margin, promotions, and market performance. You’ll also support budgeting and forecasting, ensuring clear justifications for changes and alignment on risks and opportunities. Additionally, you’ll oversee commercial income and financial control, ensuring accurate tracking, timely billing, and robust financial reporting.
Accountabilities
Business Partnering
* Providing guidance, support and challenge around trading plans and activities. Ensuring actions followed up on
* Commercial team key contact for wider finance related queries
* Aligning with business partners on commentary around performance, ensuring action plans and proposals are backed by data
* Business case development and sign off support
* Category P&L reviews
* Aged debt management
Performance Review & Analysis
* Daily / Weekly Performance Review
* Sales / Margin / Commercial Income
* Promotion Evaluations – what lift was observed, was it margin generative
* Price & Margin sensitivity – review and refine to optimise cash margin
* Market performance – how are we tracking against the IGD, where are we under indexing, and working on options to address
Budgeting & Forecasting
* Outturn reviews at category level to feed into monthly roll up. Ensuring clear justification for any changes and aligning with commercial team on risks and opportunities
* Prior month outturn actions and assumptions evaluated. If actions not followed through on why not? If assumptions not holding what can we do differently?
Commercial Income & Financial Control
* Ensure all contracted commercial income captured and tracked effectively, without any blind spots
* Billing and receipts are happening on time
* Reporting to understand which suppliers regularly late on payments
* Capturing entries for Journals, period end postings & branch allocations
About you
We need a Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with a strong foundation in management or financial accounting. If you’ve got commercial finance experience, that’s a plus – but more importantly, we want someone who’s curious, proactive, and ready to challenge the status quo.
You’ll also bring:
* A ‘can-do’ mindset – a problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced, changing environment
* Strong analytical skills – able to turn data into action
* The confidence to challenge and influence at all levels
* Great communication skills – able to explain complex financials in a simple way
* Resilience and adaptability – comfortable navigating a business that’s evolving and growing
* A sense of ownership – taking responsibility for results and seeing things through
About us
Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.
Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.
We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…
Benefits
* 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
* Generous holiday entitlement
* 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
* Company pension contributions
* Perks with over 850 retailers
* Free parking onsite
* A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave
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