Investor Relations - Senior Manager

Kingfisher plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

25 Days' Holiday

Bonus scheme

Share Save scheme

Job summary

Kingfisher plc is seeking an experienced Investor Relations professional to join our team in London. You will translate complex financial and operational information into clear messages for investors and analysts, shaping our equity story and communicating Kingfisher's strategy and value creation.

You will collaborate with the CEO, CFO and senior leaders, manage investor meetings, roadshows, and planning, and help refine messaging across results, guidance and capital markets communications.

Qualifications

• Experience as a sell-side equity research analyst or buy-side analyst is strongly preferred.
• Excellent financial and accounting literacy across income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Strong understanding of capital markets and investor needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior/external audiences.
• Highly organised with ability to manage multiple workstreams to deadline.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint, with ability to build and reconcile models.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to market-facing communications, including drafting announcements, presentations, Q&A and supporting analyses.
• Support investor engagement across meetings, roadshows, conferences and briefings.
• Help develop Kingfisher’s equity story, articulating strategy, growth drivers and value creation.
• Analyse valuation relative to peers and monitor market themes and models.
• Own or oversee consensus processes, reconciling forecasts with company metrics.
• Contribute to annual IR strategy and calendar with cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Financial literacy

Accounting literacy

Analytical mindset

Written communication

Verbal communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Bloomberg

FactSet

Visible Alpha

Job description

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 70,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Kingfisher’s Investor Relations team in a highly influential role at the heart of our engagement with the capital markets. Bringing your experience from the sell-side or buy-side, you’ll use deep financial analysis and market insight to shape how Kingfisher’s performance, strategy and value creation are understood by investors and analysts. From results and consensus to valuation, investor engagement and Board reporting, you’ll turn complex financial and operational information into clear, decision-useful insight and play a key role in telling the Kingfisher story to the market.

• Contribute to quarterly trading updates, full- and half-year results, Capital Markets Days and other market-facing communications, including drafting and reviewing announcements, presentations, management scripts, Q&A and supporting analysis, working across the business to ensure messaging is accurate, consistent and delivered to timetable.
• Support investor and analyst engagement across meetings, roadshows, conferences, store visits and analyst briefings, partnering with corporate brokers and corporate access teams on investor targeting and preparing tailored briefing materials for the CEO, CFO and other senior leaders.
• Help develop and continuously refine Kingfisher’s equity story, clearly articulating strategy, financial framework, growth drivers, capital allocation and long-term value creation, while translating complex financial and operational information into clear and credible investor messaging.
• Build and maintain a data-led view of Kingfisher’s valuation and performance relative to peers, analysing multiples, earnings expectations, share-price performance, analyst research and models, sector developments and market themes to identify implications for management and the Board.
• Own or oversee the company-compiled consensus process, maintaining a detailed understanding of Kingfisher’s financial model, accounting, performance drivers and sensitivities, reconciling external analyst models to company-reported metrics and constructively challenging forecasts and assumptions.
• Take ownership of agreed IR workstreams and projects and contribute to the annual IR strategy and calendar, working closely across Group and banner functions to improve information flows, processes, tools, reporting and the effective delivery of results, roadshows, conferences and capital markets activity.

• Prior experience as a sell-side equity research analyst or buy-side investment analyst is strongly preferred, with a proven ability to analyse listed companies, interpret financial statements, build and interrogate financial models, assess forecasts and form a view on valuation. Retail or consumer-sector experience would be advantageous.
• Excellent financial and accounting literacy, with the ability to work confidently across the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement; understand the interaction between operational KPIs and financial outcomes; and identify the drivers of earnings, cash flow, returns and valuation.
• A strong understanding of capital markets and the needs of institutional investors and sell-side analysts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear, concise and credible messages for senior and external audiences.
• Strong analytical capability, attention to detail and intellectual curiosity, combined with the judgement to focus on what is material.
• Confident and credible with senior stakeholders; able to challenge constructively, handle sensitive information and operate calmly under pressure.
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple workstreams, short deadlines and changing priorities without compromising quality.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, including the ability to manipulate and reconcile large datasets, build and review financial and valuation models, and present analysis clearly. Experience of market-data, consensus and shareholder-analysis platforms such as Bloomberg, FactSet, Visible Alpha or equivalent would be advantageous.

How We Work
We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average, around 60% of your time will involve in-person collaboration.

At Kingfisher, being all-in means contributing fully to our ambitions, supporting one another, and helping create a culture where we succeed together.

Continuously curious. Listen to understand. Always improving.

We are brave

Aim high. Act with courage. Move with pace.

We win together

Lead with customer. Commit to deliver. Help each other win.

Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.

Since joining Kingfisher in 2007, I have made many genuine friends and the company has helped me to grow both professionally and personally.

Training & Development

There are so many ways you can grow, learn, and develop here at Kingfisher. At whatever pace suits you.

Resources and tools to help you grow

Improving without instruments to help you learn is near impossible. That's why we make sure you have everything at your fingertips to find exactly what you need to keep growing.

Initiatives that measure development

With plans that ask you what you want to achieve and when you want it by, tracking progress and keeping development at the front of conversation is easy.

Find your path

The scale of group functions within Kingfisher is huge. That means you have the chance to build different career paths within multiple areas of the organisation.

Sharing is caring

We aren't selfish here at Kingfisher. Whatever your level of experience, you'll work with colleagues who are always welcoming and ready to share their knowledge whenever you need it.

Reach for the stars

So your ambitions are high? Good thing we have opportunities in line with more senior roles and responsibilities. Here, you can evolve your career, no matter your level.

Why Kingfisher

We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?

What we offer.

Private Health Care

Opportunity to receive up to family level cover with AXA. Join within three months of starting or at annual renewal in April. (This benefit is subject to Benefit In Kind taxation).

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

Immediate eligibility through auto-enrolment. Contribute 8% to receive a max 14% from the Company.

25 Days' Holiday

25 days per annum plus bank holidays as stated in your contract (pro rated for part time colleagues).

Staff Discount

20% discount at B&Q and Screwfix. Eligible after 3 months service.

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Share ownership in a tax efficient way. Save between £10 to £150 per month. Join at any time once three months service is reached.

Life Assurance

x4 Salary plus benefit equal to value of your Retirement Account (if an active member of KPS-MP) or x1 Salary if not active member.

Bonus

Competitive bonus scheme that aligns to work level of role.

Kingfisher Share Save

Save with the option to buy Kingfisher plc shares at the end of a 3 or 5 year period. Offered annually. Three months service is required at the annual invitation date, normally in October.