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In the Finance team at Asda the focus of a Commercial Finance Manager is to drive the performance of the business area that you partner, using available tools and data to develop actionable insight, and using that insight to drive change. This particular role will partner with our Food Trading stakeholders. You play a key role in ensuring we deliver the operational plans and the P&L targets, ensuring monthly performance is understood and acted upon, and influencing stakeholders to address risks and opportunities and make a real difference to business performance.
Job Responsibility:
Partner with the Food leadership team to surface value-add ideas, understand risks & opportunities, and rigorously challenge mitigation and action planning
Manage the long-range, in-year, and short-term planning process for revenue and costs, incorporating the latest information into a robust outlook and ensuring alignment with our corporate financial and strategic plans
Value-add analysis: In collaboration with the finance analysts and the data and analytics team, you'll turn insights into actions to identify value-add opportunities
Investment Appraisal: Lead the assessment of projects that redefine our store operations, driving cost efficiency and elevating our customer proposition
Own the month-end performance narrative, ensuring performance is understood and necessary future actions are in place
Working with senior finance and non-finance stakeholders, you'll help make complex financial concepts easily understood and actionable
Play an active role within the wider finance community
Requirements:
Relevant Profession level Finance or Business qualification preferred
Obsessed about the Asda Customer and can demonstrate an understanding of the customer across different channels & formats
Proactive and curious – challenging the status quo and capable of driving change
Excellent collaborator, able to communicate complex matters simply and effectively and build effective relationships to influence senior stakeholders
Passionate about your own performance and Asda’s – willing to take ownership and be accountable for delivering your piece of the puzzle
Resilient to change and embrace positively with a continuous improvement mindset
Want to understand the business, the market and know what will make a difference commercially
What we offer:
Discretionary company bonus
Company pension up to 7% matched
Company Car allowance of £5,700
15% colleague discount in store and online
Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas
Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments