Finance Manager Trading

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Location:
Hours:37.5 9.00am - 5.30pm
- Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
Salary:Competitive

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

Were a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people they make the difference. Were all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Here's the exciting bit A day includes:

This is a high-profile senior role within the Commercial Finance team. The primary deliverable is to provide and analyse financial information to generate insight and recommendations that support value-added decision-making, partnering closely across all areas of the business to drive performance, support strategic initiatives, and ensure robust financial control. The job holder will demonstrate strong commercial acumen, excellent reporting capability and confident use of financial systems.

A typical day in this role includes:

Being the finance owner of all elements of company sales and margin, business partnering across all areas of the business to provide financial analysis, insight and support

Leading the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes for sales and margin. This includes driving the key bottom-up category-level annual review, supporting trading teams with analysis, identifying risks and opportunities, and supporting the delivery against financial targets

Owning and managing all the financial processes and controls relevant to sales and margin, including month end accounting and supporting KPIs as well as providing and presenting financial updates to senior stakeholders and parent company

Delivering weekly and monthly trading performance analysis, translating complex financial and commercial data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders

Ownership of the Superdrug Mobile P&L providing business partnering support, internally and with external stakeholders, on strategic projects, promotional initiatives, and supplier negotiations

Leading financial support for strategic trading projects and tenders with robust financial modelling and analysis

Driving continuous improvement and automation across trading finance processes

Providing ad-hoc analysis and support to the wider Finance function and leadership teams

Can convert financial performance into compelling commercial narratives tailored for senior stakeholders

Able to identify issues and use initiative to bring structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous financial problems

Build strong, influential relationships and act as a trusted advisor

Enjoy working cross-functionally across multiple teams

Enjoy challenging assumptions and driving continuous improvement

Are proactive and comfortable working at pace in a dynamic retail environment with strong organisational skills and can meet tight deadlines

Can combine strong analytical capability with sound commercial judgement dealing with large volumes of data with a high level of accuracy

Generates detailed customer focused initiatives, in line with the Finance strategy and supports with execution. Listens to the customer and implements new ideas and ways of working which are designed to improve service considering both Online and Offline.

Ensures the team priorities actions which delight the customer/team member

Customer Focus:
Be the voice of customers and orchestrate the organisation to live the brand purpose and inspire a customer-first culture to build customer love in every touchpoint of our online and offline platform

We're looking for someone who can combine strong technical finance skills with the confidence to influence and present to senior operational stakeholders.

Strong commercial finance experience, ideally within retail

Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across multiple functionsA proactive, organised approach with the ability to manage priorities, improve processes, and work effectively in a fast-paced environment

Establishes strong relationships at all levels.

Can manage tough/complex messages with all stakeholders.

Role model collaboration to the team to exceed goals.

Positive attitude towards feedback, uses this to generate initiatives to meet/exceed expectations, and shares feedback in a meaningful way.

Effectively manages their team by playing to strengths and proactively addressing its opportunities. Ensuring everyone wellbeing &…