Finance Manager - Online

Morrisons; Bradford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% colleague discount

Generous holiday entitlement

Company pension contributions

Perks with over 850 retailers

Free parking onsite

Family friendly policies

Job summary

A leading retail company based in Bradford is seeking a qualified accountant to drive financial strategy and support online partnerships. This mid-senior level role involves providing financial leadership and analysis, challenging commercial decisions, and ensuring effective budgeting and forecasting. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, a proactive mindset, and experience in a business partnering environment. Competitive benefits include colleague discounts, generous holidays, and a supportive workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in a business partnering role required.
• Strong commercial mindset and accountability essential.
• Ability to navigate a fast-paced environment needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-week analysis and challenge on commercial performance.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting for Online Partnerships.
• Influence decision-making at the senior leadership level.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Confidence to challenge

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)

Job description

Overview

At Morrisons, we’re more than just numbers – we’re about driving real commercial success. This isn't just about reporting figures; it’s about getting under the skin of the business, challenging decisions, and influencing strategy. This is a dynamic and senior business partnering role, pivotal to the profitability of our fast-growing Online Partnerships.

As a key financial expert for all immediacy channels (Amazon, Deliveroo, Uber, and Just Eat) and Convenience online partnerships, your purpose is to provide robust financial leadership, challenge commercial decisions, and expedite the centralisation of controls and reporting to ensure sustainable growth and a healthy bottom line through focussed business partnering.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Driving Profitability: Provide in-week analysis and challenge on commercial performance, ensuring every pound spent is adding value and identifying opportunities to maximise the bottom line across all partner channels.
• Commercial & Operational Challenge: Use data-driven analysis to inform and challenge promotional performance, pricing strategies, and operational efficiencies within the immediacy partner channels.
• Strategic Financial Planning: Lead on the budgeting and forecasting work for all Online Partnerships, ensuring financial plans are robust, accurate, and aligned with wider business strategy.
• Leading Business Partnership: Act as the primary financial business partner to the Senior Manager for Online Partnerships and their team, providing strategic insights and challenges to optimise commercial performance.
• Influencing Senior Leadership: Regularly interact and present key financial insights and recommendations to the Online Executive Director, building your profile and influencing decision-making at the highest level.
• Expediting Centralisation: Take a pivotal role in expediting the centralisation of controls and reporting, actively driving process improvements and laying the groundwork for a more efficient, future-proofed team structure.
• Delivering Accurate Reporting: Produce comprehensive P&L, sales, and margin reports for all online partnership channels, ensuring accuracy and providing clear, concise commentary on performance.

About you

We need a Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with a strong commercial mindset and a proven track record in a business partnering role. This is an important position requiring an individual who is ready to take ownership, drive change, and operate with a high degree of autonomy.

You’ll also bring:

• A 'can-do' mindset: A problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Strong analytical skills: Able to turn complex data into actionable insights.
• Confidence to challenge: The ability to influence and gain buy-in from a wide range of stakeholders, including senior management.
• Great communication skills: Able to explain complex financials in a simple way.
• Resilience and adaptability: Comfortable navigating a business that’s evolving and growing.
• A sense of ownership: Taking responsibility for results and seeing things through.

About us

Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Accounting/Auditing

Industries

• Retail

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