ABOUT US

Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivaled service, and reassuringly good value.
We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket ocado.com. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, but it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service.

ABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE

The Commercial Finance team has exposure to the heartbeat of how our business trades and plays a key role in delivering on our financial objectives. This team provides insight, value add and reporting for both Ocado.com and Zoom by Ocado. It’s an exciting time to join the Commercial Finance Team as we head into a pivotal period of accelerated growth and continue to Raise the bar for both our finance and commercial colleagues.
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the Fresh team, providing financial expertise and challenge to the commercial teams in order to deliver profitable growth for Ocado retail. This includes evaluating cost structures, tenders and joint business plans, as well as day to day trading decisions, like pricing and promotions

WHAT YOU’LL DO

You’ll partner your functional area to support leadership make the right decisions, and play a critical role in identifying, recommending, and concluding on business opportunities to create value

• Be the trusted business partner for the 2x Trading Managers and the Fresh Commercial Director
• Support with providing regular, robust and insightful reporting around trade performance, understanding mix vs rate analysis and how the various brands are driving performance
• Make complex financial scenarios easy for non-financial colleagues
• 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
• Work closely with the supporting function in the preparation and review of budgets and forecasts
• Play a key role in developing and following up on ‘gap closing’ activities to ensure performance is delivered in line with expectations
• 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
• Month end support by providing the central team with accruals and accurate supplier income outturn
• Identifying and Implementing improvements to ways of working within the Commercial Finance Teams
• Evaluating and challenging new product launches, promotional activities new proposals/existing business to ensure profitability
• Participate in cross functional project groups
• Providing ad hoc Finance support
• Supervise and coach the SFA / analyst in the team leading them through

Who you are

• Qualified accountant with strong academics
• Previous Retail experience advantageous
• Strong communication and influencing skills, ability to articulate financial data in a clear and transparent way
• Strong Excel skills and experience in building financial models
• Highly numerate and analytical with a keen eye for detail
• Deadline focused and goal oriented
• Enthusiastic to learn
• Able to build relationships with key stakeholders
• ‘Can do’ proactive approach
• Dedicated to detail, quality and accuracy.
• Responds quickly to change, demonstrating a proactive and positive approach
• Ownership of results