Finance Business Partner - Trading

Posted 09 January 2020
Salary £250 - £350 per day
Location
Job type Permanent
ReferenceBBBH97684_1578587513
Contact NameJennifer Dempsey

Job description

Large PLC is looking to appoint a Finance Business Partner for up to 12 months on an interim basis.

The key duties will be as follows:

  • Manage the relationships and information requirements for key stakeholders in the trading and food teams ensuring accuracy, consistency and insight rich outputs from all required reports
  • Undertake pro-active reviews of opportunities or risks found within trends identified through routine or bespoke reporting and development of MI
  • Support performance improvements through leading business partnering engagement activities to drive focus on insights and hypotheses derived from data analysis
  • Own the Retail PPM relationship with the Category buying, 'Pricebook management, Trading Space planning & Food Service teams through attendance to business meetings, presenting findings and working together with stakeholders to drive improved awareness, margin management, opportunity identification whilst pro-actively challenging biases, and views with alternative perspectives.
  • Owning the submission of monthly forecasts of GM.
  • Owning the weekly estimate process to forecast, comment and communicate Shop GM.
  • Lead the delivery and development of any Simply Food regular or bespoke analysis through to Gross Profit
  • Provide analysis and insight around inventory management including waste management and stock loss.
  • To undertake the necessary work to ensure accurate rebate/ credits are accrued and actuals tracked.
  • Actively seek out, attain and report on external market insights that enable comparator lenses to interpret performance as well as monitoring impact to trading margins
  • Responsible for representing and providing insight on sales & margin performance by category, sub-category, BMC, SKU detail
  • Provide in-store promotional analysis and recommendations associated to promotional mechanics when considering impact of gross profit, supplier income and assumed volume elasticities
  • Support as required projects that impact trading and food team activitiesAct as cover for the Retail PPM Manager & Retail and Performance Analyst - Retail

Knowledge & Experience

  • Strong analytical skills with experience in developing and running advanced SAP queries, Excel spread sheets (including bridging/ comparative analysis).
  • Proven experience of being able to provide detailed analysis, undertake data manipulation, and information representation to drive business awareness and decision making
  • Proven capability to drive change and influence key internal stakeholders through effective presentation skills
  • Ability to create insights from data analysis and challenge the status quo
  • Strong influencing, networking and relationship building skills to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders within Finance and across the business.
  • Ability to deliver process improvement and adopt digital modernisation initiatives.
  • Ability to maintain high work rate and deliver high quality output even under pressure.
  • Experience of working within a Retail finance environment and usage of retail metrics to deliver commercial value
  • Can demonstrate commercial acumen, backed up with significant work experience