Finance Business Partner(Marketing) in Northampton

Customer, Marketing & Digital Hybrid working with travel to Northampton and Bridgwater. You should be able to commute to either easily.

Are you a highly analytical, commercially-minded finance professional, ready to drive performance in a dynamic retail environment?

What You’ll Do

We are seeking a Customer, Marketing & Digital Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team. This is a high-impact role, reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance. You will be instrumental in providing analytical support to our Customer, Marketing, and Digital teams to ensure improved decision-making that optimises Toolstation’s performance. Your proactive, insightful, and accurate analysis will challenge resource allocation and provide robust support for future opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the key link between Finance and the Customer, Digital, and Marketing teams, providing decision support to help determine strategy and drive overall performance improvements.
• Deliver actionable insight by analysing trends and drivers of performance across multiple KPIs.
• Take the finance lead on business case proposals, ensuring the use of robust and realistic assumptions, and conducting follow‑up performance analysis.
• Play a significant role in key finance planning activities, including the delivery of the 5 Year Plan, budget, and forecasting cycles.
• Own the month‑end process for the Marketing P&L line and lead regular monthly review meetings with senior stakeholders.
• Continuously challenge current processes and recommend improvements to shift focus from data production to analysis.

Qualifications

• Newly qualified or 1 to 2 years Post Qualified Experience (PQE) accountancy professional (CIMA/ACCA/ACA).
• Prior experience in a commercial business, demonstrating a broad understanding of business and the impact of the role.
• Strong business partnering and stakeholder engagement skills, coupled with excellent analytical capabilities.
• Excellent data management skills and proven experience in data manipulation.
• Competent user of Google Sheets (advanced level), Docs & Slides, and Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel advanced level).
• Confident in liaising at all levels of the business with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in a large retail or FMCG business is advantageous.

We Are Looking For Someone Who Is

• Detail oriented—Thorough and accurate on all areas when working on a task, performing tasks with care and making few, if any, errors.
• Communication—Communicates openly and effectively, ensuring that messages are clear and concise, and can adapt content and style to help others understand.
• Relationship building—Listens actively, responds appropriately, develops a network of contacts, and builds trust and credibility.
• Drive and motivation—Focuses on results and desired outcomes, taking ownership for completing tasks and getting the job done.
• Analytical—Goes beyond analysing factual information to develop a conceptual understanding of information and notices when data appears wrong, incomplete, or needs verification.
• Resilience—Is confident to challenge constructively, anticipates positive outcomes to difficult situations, and is comfortable operating in an uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment.

You’ll find every opportunity to be yourself and bring your personality and potential to work. Wherever you join us, you’ll be able to take your career wherever you want—up the ladder, across the business or into another role in the Travis Perkins Group. And because we want to do our best for you, you’ll be supported all the way with training and development, including apprenticeship, licence to operate and management development programmes. Plus, you'll receive some fantastic benefits. As well as 25 holidays and bank holidays, company pension scheme and life assurance, we offer a bonus scheme, cycle‑to‑work scheme, save and buy as you earn, 20% discounts across all Travis Perkins companies, financial education and support, family‑friendly policies, recognition awards and discounts at over 1000 other retailers.

Toolstation. The story so far.

We’re one of Britain’s fastest growing multi‑channel retailers of tools, accessories and building supplies and an integral part of Travis Perkins plc. The trade, home improvers and self‑builders all trust us to deliver a lot more than tools. Our store expansion programme and the size and diversity of our Group mean we always have opportunities for ambitious people who want to grow with us. Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability.