Senior Finance Business Partner in Northampton

Distribution and Supply Chain – Hybrid working from Northampton. Are you a commercially-focused finance professional ready to drive strategic change? Toolstation is looking for a proactive and resilient Distribution & Supply Chain Senior Finance Business Partner to join our team in Northampton. This is a pivotal role where you will directly influence strategic and operational decision-making across our ambitious transformation programme. As a key Business Partner to the Distribution & Supply Chain leadership team, you will ensure every financial strategy is commercially sound and aligned with our core business objectives. You will also take on a leadership element, responsible for the management and development of the Distribution and Supply Chain Finance Analyst.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Cost Management: Partner with the Distribution leadership team to meet cost targets across the network, driving continuous improvement and controlling costs in third-party supplier relationships, including managing open-book contracts. Proactively identify risks and opportunities, developing mitigation or exploitation strategies.
• Network Transformation: Act as the Finance lead for the network transformation project, applying robust financial management to deliver cost-effective, long-term business solutions and recommending corrective actions when financial targets are at risk.
• Stock & Supply Chain Insight: Partner with the Supply Chain leadership team to deliver on stock holding targets in our Distribution Centres and Stores, providing crucial analytical support to drive decision-making on stock purchases, weeks cover, and stock health.
• Financial Planning: Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly re-forecasting processes for the function.
• Performance Reporting: Produce insightful weekly and monthly performance reports, including detailed variance analysis and narrative-driven commentary that clearly explains the "why" behind the numbers.
• Team Leadership: Line manage, mentor, and develop the Distribution & Supply Chain Finance Analyst, fostering a culture of strong business partnership and high performance.

What you’ll bring

• 3 years plus Post-Qualified Experience (PQE) accountancy professional (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or relevant experience in a similar role.
• Strong business partnering and stakeholder engagement skills essentially within a Supply Chain and Distribution Function.
• Excellent analytical, data management, and data manipulation capabilities.
• Confident in liaising at all levels of the business with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Behaviours: You are a strong relationship builder, analytical, resilient, driven, and adept at problem-solving and collaboration. You are comfortable operating in an uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment.
• Experience in a large FMCG or retail company is advantageous.

What you’ll get

You’ll find every opportunity to be yourself and to 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 days’ holidays + 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.

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.