Retail Finance Partner – Profitability & Strategy

Allwyn UK; Watford; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Bonus Scheme

Matched pension up to 8.5%

26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days

Private Health Cover

Income Protection

Wellness Allowance

Job summary

Allwyn UK is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to lead end-to-end Retail profitability across 40k shops, partnering with Retail Revenue and Field Directors. You will develop a profitability framework, challenge costs, and deliver KPI-driven insights to optimise the Retail estate.

In this role you will own budgets, model scenarios, and work with analytics teams to track benefits after implementation, helping to translate financials into actionable business decisions alongside senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) with previous experience in Commercial Finance as well as partnering Senior Stakeholders.
• Ability to lead cross functional workstreams and influence outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal, communication & presentation skills and able to articulate financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness and ability to apply this to decision making and recommendations.
• Strong financial modelling required enhanced with the ability to actively translate this into actions & insight.
• Previous experience of driving improvements to underlying profitability.
• Self-starter with a keen attention to detail and independent thinking.

Responsibilities

• Business Partner to the Retail Revenue and Field Directors and their Direct Reports.
• Commercial Finance leadership across the Retail end to end P&L.
• Detailed understanding of controllable costs and contracts as well as budget ownership.
• Build Profitability framework across over 40k shops to Include.
• Understanding profitability by various segments.
• Identify and prioritise highest value opportunities.
• Understand operational levers to drive value including people, investment & incentives.
• Challenges existing ways of working to unlock financials benefits.
• Build prioritised pipeline with relevant stakeholders of activities for Optimisation strategy.
• Provide profitability & sensitivity scenarios.
• Work with the analytical teams to develop benefit tracking measurement post implementation of any recommendations.
• Clear KPI framework to be established
• Upskill the business to understand the Commercial drivers of profitability by channel and work alongside senior leadership to drive change.
• Support the Head of Finance with ad hoc commercial requests as required.

Skills

ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified

Commercial Finance

Stakeholder partnering

Financial modelling

Presentation skills

Cross-functional leadership

Attention to detail

Education

ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualification

Job description

Allwyn UK is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to lead end-to-end Retail profitability across 40k shops, partnering with Retail Revenue and Field Directors. You will develop a profitability framework, challenge costs, and deliver KPI-driven insights to optimise the Retail estate.

In this role you will own budgets, model scenarios, and work with analytics teams to track benefits after implementation, helping to translate financials into actionable business decisions alongside senior leadership.