Commercial Finance Business Partner - Syston, United Kingdom - Dunelm

Dunelm

Verified Company

Syston, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Commercial Finance Business Partner

We're the UK's number one choice for homewares - we're ambitious about our brand, about being a good company, and about profitable growth.

With 13 million active customers in the last 12 months, we offer over 50,000 products, including our own Dorma and Fogarty brands, across 170+ stores.

We operate the UK's largest Made to Measure factory for curtains and roman blinds.

We're also developing products to help customers live more sustainably by introducing new materials and circular design and broadening our 'The Edited Life' ranges.

Our renewed purpose is 'to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, for now and for generations to come.

' And we have three ambitions:
'ambitious about our brand' ambitious about being a good company', and 'ambitious about profitable growth'. We're focused on growing as the number one choice for home, furniture and more, loved by our customers shopping more frequently in a fast-moving, post-pandemic environment.

The Role

This role will involve:

Identifying opportunities for improving gross margin and profitability at category/vendor level and work with the Commercial team to drive these through to delivery stage
Support and challenge the Commercial team with investment cases considering both financial and commercial factors
Supporting the budgeting/forecasting process for gross margin & admin cost centres. Working with the commercial teams ensuring numbers are jointly owned
Ensure targets are communicated, understood and reviewed frequently
Interpreting monthly performance, highlighting and understanding issues and opportunities with appropriate recommendations
Operate broadly and influence/challenge with wider impacts in mind such as supply chain, digital trading, financial accounting
Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across multiple functions, and improving processes that add value to these stakeholders

About You

ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA qualified with appropriate and relevant PQE
A strong capability in Excel
An ability to communicate finance terms and context to nonfinance colleagues in an effective manner
An ability to turn information into a concise output displayed in a compelling way; focussing attention and driving actions
The ability to manage stakeholders and deliver exceptional business value through strong customer focus
An enthusiastic, keen to learn and pro active approach, not afraid to challenge the status quo at all levels
Drive and determination to set priorities, meet deadlines and to see things through
A change mindset; looking for new ways to do things
An ability to build effective crossfunctional relationships across the business
An ability to respond quickly to feedback from all areas, and business requests