Retail Finance Business Partner - Manchester, United Kingdom - Zachary Daniels

Zachary Daniels

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Retail Finance Business Partner | Premium Sports Brand

Permanent

Manchester City Centre

Hybrid | 4 days in office

Up to £45, % Bonus + Benefits + Progression
A newly created role to support the business during a very exciting time in expanding their stores, improving costings.

As the Retail Finance Business Partner, you will be the key person to give insight between finance and the Sales Director and wider teams.

You will be a natural business partner who enjoys talking and learning from others.

To have a natural way of explaining finance to non finance to work as a team to make impact on growth, customer experience and processes between store and Head Office.

As the Retail Finance Business Partner, you will report into the Senior Commercial Finance Manager and Finance Director and be part of the commercial team.

The business itself has doubled in size of head office staff in the last 12 months which is reallyexciting to be part of their expansion with wholesale and International and stores.

The role;

As the Retail Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible for ensuring the completeness and accuracy of retail financial records and working closely with the retail team to ensure proper financial data is readily available to assist in decision making.

Role Responsibilities:

Responsible for successfully delivering commercial insight to internal stakeholders, with a focus to help to drive location specific & group profitability and achievement of group objectives.
Work with the Head of Retail to understand risks and opportunities across a range of store locations; including the ability to challenge, monitor, communicate and propose solutions
Identify and recommend areas for improvement in both financial and commercial reporting
Calculate rent due on all stores, comfortably interpreting rent calculations and turnover thresholds from the longform lease contracts and completing turnover schedules for external stakeholders.
Plan and forecast for all retail locations and support planning decision making with analysis
Prepare monthly summaries of balance sheet in order to demonstrate complete reconciliation and ensure accuracy of the balance sheet.
Monitor key KPIs, feeding that information into monthly Board Packs capable of being shared both internally and with external stakeholders
Leverage Technology to support automation of reporting and improve access to information that guides the decision making

Knowledge & Skills/Experience:

ACA/CIMA Qualified (Part-Qualified with sufficient industry experience will be considered)
2+ years experience in a retail environment
Advanced knowledge of excel
Proactive selfstarter who thrives on being fully accountable for their work
Excellent professional verbal and written communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders
Ability to manage fast changing priorities
Comfortable with long form complex documents