Job Description
The Consultancy Group are currently recruiting for a Finance Business Partner to join a well known retailer on a 6 month contract. Your role will be working with the Buying and Merchandising teams to drive financial performance.
Main responsibilities
This roles primary objective will be to enhance the weekly & monthly reporting of performance, providing a new trading pack of the weekly executive meetings. The roles main responsibilities will be:
- Ownership of weekly trading reporting, planning and forecasting focusing on sales and margin
- Work with the trading director to understand performance and future opportunities
- Understand the product life cycle and work with both production and buying to improve working capital
- Drive commercial insight by harnessing data and drive the so what, now what agenda
Person Specification
- Qualified Accountant
- Hyperion & XL cubed experience ideal
- Power BI experience ideal
- Ability to manipulate large data sets and create excel models with minimal manual intervention
- Previous experience of partnering with senior stakeholders
