Senior Finance Manager: Retail Trading - London
Senior Finance Manager: Retail Trading - London
The work location is in Paddington, London / Remote working.
The duration of the contract is 6 months.
The role is working for a large, multinational retail client.
Key responsibilities
- Finance lead for Personalisation - ensuring we maximise the benefits opportunity and that BUs are supportive and recognising benefits in all plans.
- Design a rhythm and routine for forecasting personalised promotional events, markdown and incremental sales for inclusion in finance plans with mechanisms in place to measure and report against
- Responsible for ownership of D&D business cases and subsequent measurement and reporting (Sparks & Personalisation, 10x Stores)
- Finance Lead for the Data Science Road Map, sizing opportunities, building and supporting delivery of business cases alongside BU Finance colleague.
- Own the long-range strategic planning process for D&D ensuring accurate recognition of benefits across the BUs.
- Support the implementation of an agile approach to investment appraisal to be embedded in our quarterly buy process.
- Proactive in looking for opportunities to improve processes and reporting to remove reliance on manual and excel based reporting.
- Robust reporting of key performance metrics ensuring these are accurate and fully reconciled to financial data adding insight to financial information to drive decision making
- Responsible for upholding a control discipline and culture across the function
Key experience and skills
- Commercially focussed qualified accountant with experience in promotional trading
- Retail trading experience ideal
- Ability to build strong relationships is key
- Collaborative approach, with natural style that builds strong network with finance colleagues
- Ability to influence non-finance colleagues at senior levels
- Commercial awareness and excellent analytical skills
- Strong team player but also happy to work independently on own initiative
- Willingness to challenge the status quo and an ability to manage change
