Finance Business Partner – Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Overview

In this role, you will drive store performance by delivering high-quality financial insight and data-driven decisions in close partnership with Stores and Finance. You will combine financial, operational and customer data to surface key performance drivers, opportunities, and risks, translating analysis into actionable recommendations. You’ll shape decisions with timely insight and constructive challenge, while advancing analytics, AI and automation to raise the impact and speed of insight across Stores Finance. By simplifying reporting, you’ll give Finance teams more time to influence outcomes for customers and the business.

Pay / Benefits

• Annual bonus up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday 25 days + personal day + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Maternity and adoption leave (26 weeks) with paid options
• Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service and EAP for wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Identify key drivers of store performance across sales, profit, costs, productivity and operations; surface risks and opportunities and recommend actions
• Use financial and operational data to spot trends, outliers and root causes to improve business decisions
• Build strong partnerships with Finance and Operations; translate complex analysis into clear, actionable messages and influence action
• Champion practical use of AI, automation and new analytical tools to improve insight and streamline reporting
• Support budgets and forecasts; challenge assumptions and identify emerging risks/opportunities
• Drive continuous improvement by simplifying processes and sharing analytical best practices across the team

Key requirements

• ACCA/ ACA /CIMA or equivalent
• ability to work in a fast-paced change-led environment
• strong analytical and financial capability; translate data into actionable insight
• commercially curious with strong problem-solving, communication and influencing skills
• experience using data to enhance business performance; openness to AI and new analytics technologies

• communication
• influencing
• problem-solving
• data analysis
• financial planning and forecasting
• AI and automation tools

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