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More about the role This is a key commercial finance role within our dynamic and fast-growing Convenience division. Working closely with Commercial teams, this role provides financial insight, challenge and analysis that supports better decision-making and drives profitable growth. This role partners with Category Directors and Commercial stakeholders to understand performance, identify opportunities and risks, and translate complex financial and trading data into meaningful commercial recommendations. Supporting the wider commercial finance team, this role plays a key part in budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting while helping shape the commercial agenda through data-driven insight. Accountabilities Customer

• Building strong relationships as a business partner to commercial and supply chain functions; embedding finance into day-to-day decision making
• Comfortable and adaptive to working with both financial and non-finance facing stakeholders
• Responsive to stakeholders across the commercial function and ad hoc requests from these individuals
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability through enhanced analysis and commercial challenge.

Colleague

• Partner with Category Managers and Commercial stakeholders to provide financial insight that supports trading performance, pricing decisions, promotional activity and margin improvement.
• Driving continuous improvement in processes and analysis within Commercial Finance

Operational

• Produce robust analysis of weekly and periodic trading performance, identifying trends, explaining variances and recommending actions or improvement
• Support annual budget setting for commercial margin
• Build reporting and analytical tools that improve understanding of business performance and enable faster decision-making.
• Support quarterly outturn and forecast delivery plan
• Collaborate across Finance to ensure consistency of reporting, planning and governance.

Sales, Profit and Cash

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