Overview

• Partnering with Head of Sales and Heads of Categories to provide analysis, reporting, and helping understand the financial impact of business decisions.
• Supporting lead buyers to manage supplier reporting, stock availability, margin delivery and overrider/rebate targets are achieved with our core suppliers.
• Working closely with the Senior Finance Business Partner for Wholesale Operations to ensure a consistent and coordinated level of financial support for the entire Wholesale team.

Budgeting and forecasting

• Build out the annual budgets and ensure actuals are tracked at right level for the newly acquired businesses to support ongoing variance analysis and business insights.
• Deliver accurate and timely forecasts in partnership with the senior team and in line with group requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to anticipate financial risks and opportunities and advise on mitigations before issues arise.

Reporting and trade analysis

• Deliver accurate, transparent and timely insights on weekly, monthly basis to drive business performance to maximum possibility.
• Create the right data sets and analysis around the portfolio of products so we can analyse the individual models and their future potential.
• Create market driven insights to help shape discussion on performance relative to the market and key competition.
• Ensure working capital balances are controlled to meet the business targets - notably debtors, creditors and stock holding need to be managed cognisant of their commercial impact on ongoing trade
• Protect the group from surprises and shocks to the finances by effective planning and three statement insight.

Strategic/Corporate

• Identify and highlight growth opportunities. Support the business in accessing them and driving into realised profits focusing on the main strategic projects as identified by the Exec
• Consider investments via payback (ROI and other mechanisms) creating proper measurable benefits and project analysis.
• Ensure tasks which support our license to trade are properly completed (audit, MHRA analysis, customer insights etc).