Job Description

Senior Finance Manager - Ecommerce & Marketing - Permanent
up-to 80,000 + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working
Southampton, Store Support Office
This role provides strategic insight and decision-making support to the Digital & Marketing function. The role also plays a key part of leading the overall Business Performance function, working collaboratively to ensure cross functional business impacts are considered and aiding career progression within the analyst and assistant analyst population.
What's the job?
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Partner theBoard Director, and the 4 Directors
• Provide key insight to the functional directors to drive performance and support business decisions
• B&Q finance lead on the business case development and implementation of the B&Q Marketplace project
• Act as link between Kingfisher and B&Q to understand digital roadmap and impact on the B&Q P&L
• Be the finance representative at Kingfisher and B&Q customer & digital leadership meetings
• Challenge the function to ensure meaningful decisions are made, taking account of both short- and long-term impacts
• Develop key assumptions to support short- and long-term planning including advice on trade-offs and opportunities
• Bring clarity of targets and drive accountability of ownership through effective communication, MI, and performance review
• Track progress against targets throughout the year in order to be able to advise on timely corrective action plans
• Educate and coach commercial teams to improve financial acumen and awareness
• Ensure end to end business ownership, across all P&L lines and business areas
• Provide the right level of governance and control over key trading decisions
• Use business knowledge and judgement to prioritise where Finance can most influence risks and opportunities
• Develop strong working relationships and processes with other Finance teams, within B&Q and Kingfisher, to bring simplicity, control and business improvement
• Management and development of one direct report, role modelling values and behaviours within Business Performance
• Effective planning and prioritising, making decisions about commercial & digital finance team resource and managing stakeholder expectations
• Deputy for Head of Commercial Finance across the Digital & Marketing agenda

What we need:
Required Skills & Experience:

• Post-qualified experience, preferably in a fast-paced retail environment
• Ability to problem solve complex issues and recommend actions in a clear and concise manner
• Strong stakeholder management skills, working collaboratively and influencing effectively
• Excellent communication skills, able to flex style to different audiences
• Resilience in a high-pressured environment with positive attitude to change /ambiguity
• End to end thinker - joins up business issues and external factors, looking for root causes

What's in it for me?
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, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more! We also provide generous breaks to make sure you're refreshed and able to perform at your best.
So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact ssorecruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.