Finance Manager Trading in Croydon

Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!

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.

Why Superdrug?

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.

We’re 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. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit… A day includes

Role Purpose

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

This job is a good fit for you if

• 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 offlineplatform

What you'll need

• 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 functions
• A 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 & diversity is considered and celebrated.
• Feels empowered to challenge across different career bands and roles. Supporting other team members in shaping their work to do so.
• Proactively keeps up to date with market and consumer trends in their specialism and feeds this into department strategy.
• Uses data and insights to challenges the status quo to keep us ahead of the competition.
• Uses data to inform and generate new ideas and make decisions to improve on future plans.
• Tech & AI : Helping your team understand when to use AI, when to rely on human judgement, and how to combine both.
• Tech & AI Rethinking how work gets done - Actively shifting work from repetitive tasks to higher‑value activities as AI takes on routine work
• Tech & AI Role modelling behaviours to encourage confidence with AI. Actively developing your ability to use AI effectively and think critically about outputs
• Tech & AI Strengthen Human Touch - Keeping the human element strong: Balancing AI efficiency with human coaching, empathy, and team cohesion
• ASW Capabilities
• Customer-Focused; Results Driven; Think
• & Act Strategically; Foster Collaboration; Manage Complexity
• Assessment: A critical strength; A core
• capability; A useful skill

Here's what's in it for you

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
• Hybrid working patterns 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
• Company pension matching and bonus
• We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
• We are part of A. S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
• Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
• Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support

• Come and be part of something special!

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