
Finance Business Partner Retail Services
- Ireland
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Overall responsibility for control of store staff costs including, store benchmarking and target KPI’s, collaborating with the operational team on payroll hours & rosters, gross margin analysis to staff numbers & productivity analysis
- Support operational teams to understand KPIs and how to influence them.
- Business Partnering with Operations to drive performance by analysing key P&L drivers , develop action plans and support area managers understanding and improving their business.
- Monitor, analyse and report on store performance, creating benchmarking and standard operating model
- Daily, Weekly & Monthly reporting on store performance to senior management
- Support operational teams in relation to profit protection and leakage such as discounts, cancelled sales, zero value sales & loyalty.
- On-going review and assessment of controls , working with Process Integration/IT to implement or enhance KPI outputs.
- Support Budgeting, Financial Planning process and Rolling Forecasts
- Project work – review and analyse business cases proposals/projects including post investment review
- Work with finance colleagues to help optimise the efficiency and insightfulness of reporting
- Qualified Accountant with min 2/3 years post qualified industry experience
- Multi-Site Retail Experience Desirable but not essential if candidates meet other criteria.
- Experience in reporting to senior management
- Demonstrate good communication skills when dealing with key stakeholders (Financial and non-financial)
- Ability to work with significant volumes of data to investigate and summarise data to present to various Business owners.
- Ability to work on their own and deliver results to tight deadlines
- Problem Solver
- Initiative
- Team worker
- Attention to detail
- Communication
- Knowledge of an ERP package ( BC & Navision is an advantage)
- Knowledge of MS Office products, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Excellent excel skills essential.