This role is based in our Street, Somerset head office located at 40 High Street, Street, Somerset, BA16 0EQ.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Professionally qualified accountant either CPA (US qualification) ACA (Chartered), ACCA (Certified) or ACMA (Management) and with relevant and extensive commercial finance experience gained in operational roles during that period.
• People Management experience.
• Experience working in a retail or consumer goods business. Good understanding of the challenges, dynamics and external factors impacting trading.
• Highly effective at business partnering and operating credibly at senior management level.
• In depth knowledge and experience of planning, budget and forecasting processes
• Extensive analytical experience, ability to take large amounts of complex data and quickly identify key issues and drivers
• Good experience in building financial business cases, identifying key assumptions and working across business stakeholders.

• Deliver annual forecasting and budgeting processes, with great focus on NTO, GM and pairs. Fully engage Leadership teams in developing these plans to ensure understanding of performance against financial plans and targets.
• Deliver complete performance visibility across all aspects including Footfall and Conversion performance along with driving trading activity.
• Be the Finance Lead on Business Cases on stores openings, closures and transfers with great focus on profitability analysis.
• Act as the lead in looking at product sell-through and inventory management to help mitigate aged inventory.
• Partner with various key stakeholders across the business to ensure the robustness of the forecasting and variance analysis.
• Provide feedback and challenge performance and delivery on a regular basis across multiple aspects of output, both in financial and operational metrics to influence leaders and provide expert view of position
• Provide ad hoc analysis and financial vision to the leadership team to deliver value add commercial acumen that makes a difference in the performance of the business
• Review, develop and improve Finance and Reporting processes to create efficiency and reduce non-essential workload.
• Key support to the Head of Commercial Finance.