Finance Business Partner - Retail in Tring

Finance Business Partner (Retail)

We are looking for a commercially minded, analytically sharp Finance Business Partner to own the financial performance of our global Retail channel and act as a trusted partner to our sales teams.

You'll use your experience in previous Retail Finance roles to bring rigour and accountability to our budgets and forecasts, trade investment decisions and retailer/country P&Ls.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end financial performance of the global Retail channel across all markets including all commercial insight, budgeting and forecasting, and ensuring correct allocation of revenue and costs to the channel.
• Work closely with the management accounts team to ensure accurate recording of trade and promotional spend and channel-specific costs in each Retail market, and to understand variances to budgets and forecasts.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting process from a Finance perspective, working closely with the Sales teams and covering gross revenue, trade spend and direct Retail marketing spend.
• Partner the Sales teams providing financial insight and challenge on revenue outlooks, planned promotional activity, marketing spend, retailer negotiations, and new business opportunities.
• Build and maintain retailer P&Ls, giving clear visibility of profitability by account, market, and product.
• Own market-level Retail P&Ls and work with teams across the business to create and drive roadmaps for improvement.
• Build financial models to support business cases for new products / retailers / markets.
• Work closely with the data team to ensure we have robust reporting for all Retail markets to inform decision making.
• Identify and communicate risks and opportunities within the Retail P&L as they arise and suggest opportunities to mitigate risks.

Qualifications

This role is best suited to a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with 5+ years post-qualified experience. You will also have:

• Proven business partnering experience supporting Retail trading teams
• Strong understanding of retail commercial mechanics including trade investment, promotional spend, retailer P&Ls, and margin management.
• Confident communicator who can engage and influence senior non-finance stakeholders
• Commercially curious and takes a genuine interest in the business beyond the numbers
• Highly analytical with the ability to build financial models to the appropriate level of complexity and explain outputs simply and clearly
• Thrives (yet remains calm) when there’s a lot going on and able to juggle competing demands
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to set your own direction without waiting to be told what to do
• Actively curious about how AI is changing finance, and already thinking about how to use it

Benefits

• Hybrid working - We spend Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office together. The remaining two days have the option to be worked from home.
• 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• Free Huel to keep you going

• 2 weeks a year to work remotely from anywhere!

• Free on-site gym with free classes, and we will give you your own nutrition plan
• Free on-site wellness area offering infrared saunas and an ice bath
• Free 1-on-1 therapy provided by Self‑Space.
• Private Medical and Health insurance for you and your loved ones, including free life insurance covering up to 4x your salary
• Electric Car Scheme with onsite charging
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Biannual events to celebrate success - Have you heard about Huelchella?
• About Huel

Huel provides sustainable nutrition for people worldwide.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status.

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