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Finance Manager - Retail Change

Our Finance function isn’t just about championing internal audits and controlling risks. It’s about transforming our Finance systems and processes to make sure we’re set up for success in the ever changing world of retail. It’s generating crucial insights for our business, keeping costs under control and maximising our cashflow. Here you’ll see strategic decision making at its finest. We’re changing the face of retail. And you can be a driving force.

• Provide challenge to the workstreams to ensure that they are focusing on the right areas and are delivering on the commitments that they’ve made.

• Act as an independent voice for the Director of Change and provide challenge and advice as required.

• Develop great relationships with the Finance leads for the cost lines.

• Work closely with the core Finance team to ensure that all retail cost-impacting projects are captured accurately for the purposes of budgeting and reporting.

• Liaise with the Food Transformation Finance team to ensure that there is an aligned view of performance in the Central Retail team between all key stakeholders.

• The Finance lead within the Retail change team.

• Drive the agenda in the retail change workstream, ensuring that there is financial rigour around the decisions made.

• Act as a key business partner to the Director of Change.

• Act as a key member of the wider Finance team, ensuring that impacts are captured in Budgets and Latest Views at the appropriate time.

• Consolidate and surface information across Central Retail to support wider programme delivery.

• Own, report and align Capital expenditure across Retail, ensuring robust business cases are substantiated and support delivery of priorities in year.

What you need know and show

• Qualified accountant

• Commercially aware with a clear focus on driving excellent financial & commercial performance

• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of people

• Critical friend and key business partner for the Retail Change team

• High levels of pace, energy and resilience and an ability to deal with ambiguity

• Must have a strong eye for detail and a passion for accuracy

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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