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