About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Commercial Finance team as a Senior Finance Analyst working in our Waitrose team. The John Lewis Partnership’s Commercial Finance team has set itself a vision to 'deliver the best possible basis for decision making to our stakeholders'. The role the team performs is to drive business performance by advising, influencing, and maximizing value from the investments we make, while finding opportunities to manage and reduce our everyday costs.
They do that by applying strong commercial expertise, external market awareness, and judgement to perform complex analysis, which aids in building dynamic financial models based on sometimes ambiguous data sets. Our Senior Finance Analysts work with a Commercial Finance Lead or Manager to develop approaches for each outcome and are empowered to make recommendations to business leaders based on financial analysis.
The areas we are recruiting for are split between Working Capital and Selling Costs.
Working Capital
Supporting our exciting project to deliver a significant cash improvement through driving working capital benefits. Supply chain is undergoing significant change with the largest systems investment in 20 years. While we go through this transformation, we are reviewing how we support understanding the balance of driving availability, controlling working capital, and reducing wastage.
Selling Costs
This role is pivotal in supporting our Waitrose Shops manage their cost base. It will require planning, reporting, and analysis delivered to business stakeholders, including support on business cases and benefits tracking on our investments.
* Expected salary: £46,600 - £61,000
* Contract type: Permanent and 12-month fixed-term contracts available.
* Working pattern: The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, allowing a mixture of office and home-based work based on personal needs while balancing business needs.
* Location: This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office. The team aims for around 2 days a week in the office to connect and attend key meetings but remains flexible. For training purposes, more frequent office visits may be required initially.
Key responsibilities
* Producing and delivering insights for your area of responsibility to time and quality standards, articulating drivers of current performance and implications for future performance.
* Performing commercial analysis and complex financial modelling to inform the financial implications of different options or scenarios relating to complex business issues.
* Working directly with senior business stakeholders and finance colleagues to understand business issues, identify relevant data inputs, and build complex financial models.
* Supporting the central planning team with the development and maintenance of financial plans through sharing business knowledge, performance insights, and identifying future risks/opportunities.
As you can imagine, there is plenty to get involved in, and the Commercial Finance team is at the heart of all big projects shaping the Partnership Strategy. Team members are encouraged to be curious and proactive in finding opportunities and solutions, working collaboratively towards achieving our goals.
Why do our Senior Finance Analysts love working for us?
Our Commercial Finance Analysts have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to our business's success, deployed on high-priority projects where they provide insights that influence significant decisions. They receive support to develop new skills and apply their expertise across various high-profile projects in an exciting industry.
Essential skills
* Strong financial acumen: an accounting qualification or equivalent experience.
* Commercial acumen: ability to support commercial decision-making by analysing data and collaborating with stakeholders.
* A curious mindset: drive to dig deeper and uncover insights.
* Analytical expertise: ability to interpret and interrogate financial accounts.
* Exceptional stakeholder management: outstanding communication skills to build strong relationships.
Desirable skills
* Retail experience
About The Partnership
We’re the largest employee-owned business in the UK, home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees; we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
We’re focused on being brilliant at retail, innovating and adapting to serve our customers better.
As Partners, we share the responsibility of ownership and its rewards, contributing to our success through collaboration and kindness.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong, embracing our differences and creating an environment where we can THRIVE.
Important points to note:
Some roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. Please apply as soon as possible, as vacancies can close early. We support flexible working, which might include flexible or compressed hours, job sharing, or shorter hour contracts.
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