Finance Business Partner in Loughborough

Topps Group is home to premier UK tile brands including Topps Tiles, Pro Tiler, CTD, Tile Warehouse and Parkside. We are a community of small teams with big ambitions who trust each other, celebrate success, and put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

We are currently looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our team! You will drive various financial planning activities for our CTD and Pro Tiler brands, including store/company budgeting cycle, forecasting, and strategic 5-year planning. Your role will be instrumental in supporting the integration of the CTD business into the wider organisation.

• Ensure timely and accurate reporting and analysis to business managers, ensuring accuracy and relevancy of insight.
• Administer key aspects of the monthly management accounting and financial accounting processes, ensuring information is available in a timely fashion.
• Maintain open communication within the wider finance team around the period end accounts preparation.
• Communicate with other departments who either feed information to the accounts or utilise information generated.
• Close off the ledgers within agreed timescales and ensure that all key balance sheet control accounts have been reconciled and approved on a monthly basis.
• Work with the Senior Finance Business Partner to deliver a five-year financial plan, one year budget, and annual reforecast for CTD and Pro Tiler Tools.
• Challenge decision makers to optimise financial performance for the business, including identifying commercial opportunities and supporting the MDs to control costs.
• Support with various other financial activities as required, e.g. financial analysis, reviewing performance against plan.
• Support CTD stores with queries in relation to their P&Ls.

• Support in the preparation of month end management accounts and present to key stakeholders on a monthly basis.
• Ensure that financial performance is well understood across the business, generating commercial insight.
• Keep the Senior Finance Business Partner and Director of Commercial Finance appraised of financial performance and emerging long-term trends.
• Prepare information for presentations across the business, including weekly reporting and Board reporting.
• Support financial control and ensure that key balance sheet control accounts have been reconciled on a monthly basis.

• Ensure appropriate processes exist both within finance and across the organisation to identify key areas of risk.
• Agree with the Senior Finance Business Partner and Director of Commercial Finance appropriate plans to manage those risks.
• Ensure that appropriate controls exist across the businesses, including compliance with key regulatory areas.
• Drive improvements to increase the reliability and robustness of information and controls.

• Newly qualified or Part qualified accountant.
• Good working knowledge of core finance processes.
• Good working knowledge of accounting systems.
• Good level of commerciality.
• Effective communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to influence and support non-finance teams.
• Ability to prioritise, multi-task and manage deadlines.

• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Dynamics or Xero.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Good working knowledge of other business areas.

In a culture where hard work is recognised and great results are rewarded; you can look forward to a company bonus that will give you a share of our success (up to 25% of your base salary). There’s a generous staff discount, pension and life assurance, a holiday allowance that increases with length of service and a wide range of other benefits. Plus, flexible working, free on-site parking, generous discounts on products and services and more.

We’re committed to promoting talent from within too, which means you’ll be well-supported to build a rewarding career with an individual development plan and lots of training on offer.

At Topps Group CTD we believe that diversity isn’t just a box to tick. We are committed to creating an authentic ‘One Topps’ culture, where our colleagues feel included and supported regardless of who they are or where they are from.

We actively welcome applications from individuals of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, ages, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know—we’re here to support you.

Join us in shaping a culture where inclusion is more than a policy—it’s a daily practice.