What can we offer?
- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Company car or car allowance
- Personal private medical care cover
- Free on-site car park
- Onsite coffee lounge
- Discount Card – 10% discount on most purchases in-store
- Family Friendly Benefits
- Loyal Service Awards
- My Staff Shop – exclusive discount portal
- Apprenticeships & Career Development
- Life Assurance Cover
- Health & Wellbeing – employee assistance programme to support you
- Holiday Allowance – 33 days, along with the option to purchase additional holiday (annually)
- Birthdays are important, so each year, you can take the day off as an extra day's holiday
- Pension scheme
About the opportunity...
As we continue to grow, we seek a talented Finance Manager to join our Group Finance function.
Based in Walsall and reporting to the Group Head of Finance - Trading, this permanent role involves collaborating with the Commercial Buying & Merchandising teams across the Group and the wider Pepco finance teams across the UK and Europe.
You will work closely with various key stakeholders from Pepco Group and the different brands. (Pepco, Poundland, Dealz)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
What you'll be doing...
Support and Challenge Performance:
- Improve profitability and working capital across the FMCG commercial function, focusing on sales, margin, retros, and other margin items from a P&L perspective, as well as stock and stock provision from a working capital perspective.
- Introduce a consistent and challenging performance review process with the Trading teams to review monthly FMCG category P&Ls and stock positions.
- Act as the Commercial Finance lead to drive cost efficiencies regarding the cost of sales and other margin items.
- Influence the Trading strategy through your knowledge and experience of the Commercial function.
Lead Process Improvements:
- Enhance reporting, performance review, forecasting, and budgeting processes to ensure they are appropriate and fit for purpose.
- Ensure consistency across reporting and performance review processes within the Group.
- Review and improve the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes to achieve the most efficient and effective outcomes.
- Work closely with Commercial Finance Controllers for Retail, Distribution, and Financial Planning & Analysis to share best practices.
Team Leadership:
- Lead, coach, and challenge a team of three, including 1 Finance Business Partner and two Commercial Finance Analysts, to address core issues and deliver key processes.
- Develop team members to maximise their potential and ensure they have clear, specific, and manageable objectives.
- Create a challenging and fun working environment where colleagues trust in the team's ability to deliver a supportive but challenging experience.
What you'll need...
- Drive, enthusiasm, and tenacity to deliver targets.
- Effective planning and implementation skills, with a strong ability to make things happen.
- Well-developed business partnering skills to overcome concerns in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to interact well with others and present information clearly.
- Strong leadership and strategic planning abilities, with experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing projects.
About us..
Since our humble beginnings in 1990, Poundland has evolved into a retail powerhouse with over 900 stores and nearly 18,500 dedicated colleagues across the UK and Republic of Ireland. The addition of Dealz in 2011 further solidified our presence, enabling us to reach millions of customers with our unparalleled value offerings.
At Poundland & Dealz, we don't just offer products at unbeatable prices; we cultivate an environment where every colleague can thrive and contribute to our mission of providing amazing value to millions of customers. Our commitment to excellence, inclusion, and sustainability forms the foundation of our culture, empowering our team members to be the best versions of themselves while making a meaningful impact on the communities we serve.
It is our behaviours and the hard work, commitment and passion of our wonderful colleagues that make it all possible.
We like to keep things simple, so we have just three behaviours that lie at the heart of everything we do, and they keep us on track.
They are Love our customers, Care for our colleagues and Protect the Pounds & Euros...
By living our behaviours every day, we've created a land which is fun, friendly and full of surprises — a place where our people can truly be the best version of themselves!