Finance Business Partner - Tech

Kingfisher; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job description

Overview

This role can be based in London, Southampton or Krakow. We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

We're looking for a commercially-minded Finance Business Partner to join our Group Tech Finance team at Kingfisher. In this high-visibility role, you’ll work closely with senior leaders across our Technology functions, influencing key decisions and driving performance. Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you’ll be at the heart of DigiTech, collaborating with stakeholders across the UK and Krakow.

What's the job?

Business Partner the Group Technology and Data Leadership Team and Banners so that they:

1. Understand the drivers of the IT cost base to allow early visibility of spend variances and allow reactive activity on a timely basis
2. Understand any gaps to deliver required financial targets and deploy recovery plans if necessary
3. Provide commercial and cost challenge to the business as required
4. Develop and deploy the right strategic activities
5. Understand the recharge to the banner from the activity incurred in Group Tech

Lead the financial analysis to ensure the best decision making for key investment activities.

Make Group Tech costs (plans and actuals) visible and transparent to key partners in a clear, “non-financial” manner to identify actions to drive opportunities and mitigate risks and challenge business assumptions in forecasting and planning to improve the understanding of IT cost across Kingfisher.

Fully understand in-flight and future projects to ensure spend on projects is correctly reported and forecasted.

Preparation of business cases for Group Tech projects and linking these through to budgets and forecasts as well as post-investment reviews.

What you'll bring

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Significant business-facing or commercial finance experience working in a business partnering background. Comfortable building relationships with senior stakeholders and challenging where appropriate.
• Strong ability to interpret financial information and deploy it effectively across the organisation.
• Proactive approach to driving efficiencies and improvements across teams with a demonstrable history of change management.
• Confident presenting data to small and large groups of people.
• Able to work with ambiguity & be comfortable with change.

Be Customer Focused – constantly improving our customers’ experience

• I listen to my customers
• I use available data to help make decisions

Be Human – acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing
• I am respectful

Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas
• I try new things and share my learnings

Be Agile – working with trust, pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative
• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20

Be Inclusive – acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship
• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn

Be Accountable – championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions
• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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