Job Description

Duties are Inclusive of day-to-day responsibility for forecasting and planning, driving strategy, manage transactional accounting and reviewing all ways of working, review systems and suggest system improvements and to partner with the business to make the best financial commercial decisions with overall management of these functions to deliver our business ambitions.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Lead and drive improvement in the annual budgeting and strategic five-year plan process to ensure the delivery of financial commitments and growth ambitions of the business
• Preparation of business wide commercial monthly forecasts, commentary and analysis to support key business decisions
• Use monthly performance to indicate what this means in detail for the balance of the year, highlighting risk & opportunities
• Responsibility for sales through to gross profit management with Brand Experience operating costs to support these ambitions as well as capital expenditure requests to ensure adequate control and reporting is in place
• Ensure sales and gross profit generation as well as development, monitoring and reporting against budget is compliant, effective and enables cost management initiatives to be developed to strengthen results
• Analyze current and past KPI trends to identify risks and opportunities in costs and other operational KPIs, but also working with the International Finance team to improve operating costs in each market to enhance overall country profitability
• Ad-hoc / deep dive analysis to develop insight that will lead to better business decisions

Business Expertise

• Provide leadership advice to Retail, Global and Brand Experience & supply Chain Finance teams on short, mid and long-term commercial decisions

Business cases

• Develop robust business cases for new investments for Supply Chain making sure any decisions are aligned with company strategy and supported by analytic rigor.
• Initiatives will range from large capital investments in warehouse infrastructure to smaller P&L investments in service proposition
• Lead the capex governance forum to ensure capital spend is spent in the right areas and on track
• Ensure all new investments follow the relevant company governance process for sign-off

Leadership

• Develop, manage and lead the Retail, Global and Brand Experience & Supply Chain Finance teams
• Lead, inspire and motivate the Trading Finance team of c 50 heads in line with our values

Problem Solving

• Ensure credibility of Trading Finance and ultimately company by overseeing the provision of timely and accurate analysis of budgets, trends, forecasting and commercial analysis

Nature of Impact

• Be the financial conscience for and role model collaboration between different functions across the business
• Operate in a truly collaborative way with key senior stakeholders across the all functions

Area of Impact

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with our Exec Board and where necessary the PLC Board
• Partnering with the business to identify value creation opportunities

Interpersonal Skills

• Influence the beliefs and opinions of others within the Finance community and the Business by establishing effective, collaborative relations with other departments and stakeholders

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA qualified
• Experience of Finance Director/Senior Finance level roles in fast paced, consumer, high growth environments
• Experience managing significant P&L budgets, as well as managing capital governance processes
• Demonstrated experience of leading teams and fostering innovation and collaboration
• Strong communicator with the ability to present and facilitate at a senior board level and cascade information across all levels and geographies
• Combines excellent business judgment and entrepreneurial flair
• Drive and determination to deliver outstanding results as the company grows
• Excellent analytical, abstract reasoning and organizational skills
• Experience in a senior financial-management role, partnering with directors and executives, supporting the development and implementation of creative financial management strategies and execution
• Team player who works for success of the wider team