Finance Business Partner – Stock & Imports

Finance Business Partner – Stock & Imports

Permanent

£60,000-£70,000 + Pension + PMI + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (2/3days per week in the office)

Southampton, Store Support Office

Partnering with business stakeholders to provide insight and actions to manage stock effectively to deliver profitable sales growth and optimise working capital investment, as well as budget and forecast movements in stock, stock provisions and import costs.

• Produce regular forecasts and an annual budget for stock, commercial stock loss provisions and import costs.
• Provide actionable insight on stock and commercial stock loss provisions.
• Support the Supply Chain & Commercial teams to define and deliver plans to achieve effective stock performance through building trusted relationships, improving performance reporting processes and building Supply Chain and Commercial capability.
• Model and track clearance events with the Commercial teams to ensure clean stock and manage the trade off between clean stock and margin.
• Collaborate cross functionally to enhance business planning processes to deliver integrated and actionable demand, purchases, stock and operational volume forecasts.
• Provide insight to the Commercial teams on exchange rate and freight cost movements impact on product cost prices so they can manage product margins and retail prices.

• Proven experience of budgeting and forecasting as well as financial modelling and analysis.
• Knowledge of Commercial, Supply Chain, Logistics and Retail processes that impact on stock.
• Demonstrate impact & influence with senior stakeholders to define priorities and facilitate key decisions.
• High level of self-initiative and drive and enjoys working in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Positive approach to problem solving and developing cross functional working relationships.
• Clear and concise oral and written communication to non-finance stakeholders.
• Able turn large volumes of data into actionable insight and leverage changes in data analysis tools and technology to deliver improved automation and quality of insight
• Drives continuous improvement in processes, performance and themselves.

Essential Professional Qualifications: Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more! 

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact ssorecruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.