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Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Finance Business Partner and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.
The Role:
As our Finance Business Partner you'll be joining a dedicated, high performing team, where you will support and partner The Bathroom Showroom, Bathrooms across P&H Division as whole as required. Your ambition to succeed as a Finance Business Partner and develop your skills will help achieve this when operating within an area of the business as you liaise and deliver excellent analytical and reporting information to drive the best commercial decisions. You will be working closely with the other teams within finance including FP&A reporting teams along with your Operations / Bathroom Showroom business partners to drive and maximise profitability in a fast paced business that continues to undergo a period of transformation.
This Finance Business Partner is a hugley significant role that would either suit a fully-qualified Business Partner, or a part-qualified Finance Analyst who has been exposed to business partnering before and is ready to take the step up.
Key Responsibilities
Providing Business Partnering and key financial support to colleagues.
Adding value by supporting other Business Partners and Finance Analysts with producing relevant reports and information to make business choices.
Presenting the key themes facing the business at management meetings.
Delivering annual planning cycles (forecasts, budgets, & 5-year plans).
Continually review key reporting to ensure the business remains focused on improving KPI metrics to improve profitability
This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home 3 days a week, with 2 days in our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire
You:
You'll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and agile approach to problem-solving. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and you'll thrive on delivering excellent support to the wider team.
Whilst our preference is for someone to be fully qualified in either ACA / ACCA / CIMA, we will also consider more junior applicants who are currently part-qualified and studying with a few exams left to complete
Skills and competencies
Strong demonstrable experience in business partnering.
CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualification would be beneficial but we would also consider part-qualified applicants.
Ability to accurately follow departmental procedures.
Strong experience in Excel is a must with evidence of large data slabs and manipulation (Google Sheets will also be considered).
Well organised, with the ability to work under your own initiative managing multiple projects at once.
SQL knowledge (or the ability to learn SQL) is also beneficial.
Financial experience of working within Retail or Manufacturing industries is beneficial
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Finance Analyst, Finance BP, Finance Business Partner, Finance Partner, Financial Accountant, Finance Analyst, CIMA Qualified, ACCA Qualified, ACA Qualified, FMCG, eCommerce, Online, Digital, Retail, Manufacturing, Building Products, Plumbing & Heating, Construction.
Us;
From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We're proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we're super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.
Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:
Bonus
Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
Life assurance
Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
Financial education and loans
Flexible working options
A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
And more!
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We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don't want you to ‘fit' our culture, we want you to enrich it.
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