Gross Margin Business Partner

TN United Kingdom; Hove; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Residential & SME Gross Margin Business Partner to enhance business performance through strategic insights and operational excellence. In this dynamic role, you'll forge strong relationships with sales and margin management teams, optimizing financial outcomes while providing actionable insights. Your expertise in data analytics and commercial acumen will drive decision-making and influence gross margin performance. Enjoy a flexible working environment with a competitive salary and a range of benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth.

Benefits

Electric Vehicle Leasing

Enhanced Parental Leave

Health Insurance

Employee Discounts

Flexible Working

IT Equipment for Remote Work

Qualifications

• Excellent communicator with strong relationship-building skills.
• Experience in data analytics within finance systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage month-end reporting and collaborate with Finance teams.
• Perform variance analysis and present results to stakeholders.

Skills

Data Analytics

Communication Skills

Commercial Acumen

Excel Skills

Education

Qualified Management Accountant

Chartered Member of CIMA

Tools

Finance Systems

Job description

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As the Residential & SME Gross Margin Business Partner, you'll collaborate with the Customers team, providing insights that drive strategic and operational decisions for better business performance.

You'll forge strong relationships with Residential & SME Sales & Margin Management teams, optimizing financial outcomes while balancing support with independent challenge. Proactively offering insights and ideas, you'll play a key role in influencing business performance and decision-making.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary of Circa £55,000 DOE and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts, and employee pricing.

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively.

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll manage Residential & SME month-end reporting, ensuring deadlines are met. This involves collaborating with various Finance teams and Retail Commercial Performance.

You’ll perform variance analysis, interpret data, and present monthly results to key stakeholders. Understanding key drivers of revenue and costs for SVT/Variable and Fixed products, you’ll provide accurate analysis and assess risks and opportunities affecting gross margin.

Building strong relationships with Wholesale Market Services, you’ll proactively manage gross margin risks by recommending mitigating actions. You’ll also develop analysis tools to better understand gross margin drivers.

In partnership with the business, you’ll create challenging but achievable budgets and forecasts for Residential and SME. Additionally, you’ll support balance sheet reconciliation and the Unbilled Action Plan by understanding wider finance and gross margin processes.

Who you are

To excel in this role, you must be an excellent communicator with the confidence to build strong relationships across the business. Your experience in data analytics within finance systems will enable you to interpret large data sets effectively.

Strong commercial acumen is essential, along with the ability to quickly understand and communicate the implications of data to drive decision-making. You should be adept at converting complex data into executive-level narratives and have advanced Excel skills.

You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, demonstrating resilience, organisation, and prioritisation skills. A growth mindset and passion for learning will help you challenge the status quo.

Comfortable working independently and as part of a team, you should have experience or a solid understanding of the energy industry. Ideally, you are a qualified management accountant or a chartered member of CIMA.

If this sounds like you, I'd love to hear from you so please do get in contact with me - Bethanie.Price-

Closing date for applications: Sunday 13th October

Location: Hove/London/Flexible/Work from home