Finance Business Partner

Topps Group is home to premier UK tile brands including Topps Tiles, Pro Tiler, CTD, Tile Warehouse and Parkside. We are a community of small teams with big ambitions who trust each other, celebrate success, and put the customer at the heart of everything we do, that’s the Topps Group way.

We are currently looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our team! You will drive various financial planning activities for our CTD and Pro Tiler brands, including store/company budgeting cycle, forecasting, and strategic 5-year planning.

Your role will be instrumental in supporting the integration of the CTD business into the wider organisation. Key Accountabilities Customer / Strategy / Plan To ensure there is timely and accurate reporting and analysis to business managers, ensuring accuracy and relevancy of insight. To ensure that key aspects of the monthly management accounting and financial accounting processes are appropriately administered and information is available in a timely fashion.

Ensure there is an open communication within the wider finance team around the period end accounts preparation – including any areas of judgement. Communication with other departments who either feed information to the accounts or utilise information generated. Close off the ledgers within agreed timescales and ensure that all key balance sheet control accounts have been reconciled and approved on a monthly basis.

Work with the Senior Finance Business Partner to deliver a five-year financial plan, one year budget, and annual reforecast for CTD and Pro Tiler Tools, which will help the business deliver its strategy and goal. Challenge decision makers (e.g. MDs of the business) in order to optimise financial performance for the business, including identifying commercial opportunities, and supporting the MDs to control costs.

Supporting with various other financial activities as required, e.g. financial analysis, commercial opportunities that may drive performance, reviewing performance against plan, etc. Supporting CTD stores with queries in relation to their P&Ls. Financial / Commercials Support in the preparation of month end management accounts and presentation key stakeholders on a monthly basis. Ensure that financial performance is well understood across the business, and commercial insight is generated in a way that colleagues generate learnings and instigate change.

Ensure that the Senior Finance Business Partner and Director of Commercial Finance is well appraised of the financial performance (e.g. variances vs budget) and emerging long-term trends. Supporting in the preparation of information for presentations across the business, for example weekly reporting (including KPIs, etc.), Board reporting, etc. Support financial control and ensure that key balance sheet control accounts have been reconciled on a monthly basis.

Risk and process To ensure appropriate processes exist both within finance and across the organisation and to identify key areas of risk, and agree with the Senior Finance Business Partner and Director of Commercial Finance appropriate plans to manage those risks. To ensure that appropriate controls exist across the businesses (e.g. Balance Sheet reconciliation, analysis of key control accounts), including compliance with key regulatory areas.

Look to drive improvements where possible to increase the reliability and robustness of information and controls. This will include process simplification and automation initiatives across the finance function Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Required:

Essential Newly qualified or Part qualified accountant – we offer a comprehensive study package to support your accountancy development. Good working knowledge of core finance processes – monthly management accounts (including commentary on variances), weekly reporting, budgeting & planning, decision / commercial support. Good working knowledge of accounting systems – general ledger, purchase ledger, sales ledger, bank recs etc. Good level of commerciality – be able to participate in commercial / operational discussions.

Effective communication skills – both on a 1:1 basis and in a group…