Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Role: Finance Business Partner

Location: Head Office, Leicestershire

Salary: Competitive plus bonus & benefits

A great opportunity has arisen for a qualified financial accountant to join our Commercial Retail Finance team, supporting our ‘North’ region which has over 130 stores! Based at our Leicestershire Head Office on a full time basis, our Commercial Retail team are responsible for delivering finance support to key stakeholders across the business for a variety of purposes including;

• Producing insightful financial reporting for key Business Stakeholders
• Profitability Analysis to shape store investment decisions
• Challenge ideas and report on their success
• Setting Stores Sales targets
• Challenging costs and highlighting areas for focus
• Report on store movements within our annual report

About the Role 

Next is a dynamic and fast growing business, to succeed in this role you must be happy in a fast-moving, fluid, ever-changing environment. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to review, advise and influence the shape and decisions made in our store portfolio. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Business partner the North regional team being their first point of call for commercial finance questions
• Run Retail Store appraisals
• Report on Sales and SQFT movements
• Assess the impact of Store opening and closures
• Review Store Sales targets
• Maintain the integrity and coordinate our store profitability 
• Liaise with Estates and Shopfitting teams
• Provide Ad Hoc analysis as required to support business initiatives

About you

• A pro-active and hands on qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) with proven experience in a large company, working cross functionally with proven ability to deliver to strict deadlines.
• Excellent understanding of P&L with the ability to explain & educate non-finance stakeholders
• The ability to work productively, efficiently and effectively, maintaining attention to detail and quality
• Excellent planning & organisation skills
• Demonstrates self motivation and an ability to work on own initiative and is confident making decisions
• Excellent written and verbal skills, coupled with the ability to comfortably present to all levels
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• The willingness to learn, improve and adapt to changing business needs.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to think outside the box.
• Exceptional working knowledge of MS Office (esp. MS Excel) suite of products, Google Gsuite is desirable
• Experience summarising large quantities of data is desirable

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

About some of our Benefits

• 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
• Company performance based bonus
• Sharesave scheme
• On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
• 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
• Early VIP access to sale stock
• Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
• Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
• Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
• Free on-site parking
• Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
• Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
• Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
• Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
• Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.

Apply Before: 12/22/2024

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.