Commercial Finance Manager - General Merchandise

ASDA; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title

Commercial Finance Manager - General Merchandise

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Financial Planning and Analysis

Closing Date

10 April 2025

Commercial Finance Manager - General Merchandise

Are you looking for a challenging, new and rewarding opportunity, business partnering Senior Leadership to drive business growth? If so, then look no further.

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone’s input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

Your role:

• Be an expert on what is happening in General Merchandise in Asda and across the wider market.
• Provide robust and timely weekly trading updates, focusing on sales, trading margin and stock and make considered recommendations on key areas of movement.
• Continually monitor and review stock management including intake, dispatch and terminal position in partnership with Senior Directors and highlight any cash concerns to the CFO.
• Challenge senior stakeholders to prioritise and evaluate trading to help facilitate decisions to deliver growth, unlock opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Ensure correct modelling of strategic initiatives and alignment to corporate principals (including cash optimisation, enhancing the end-to-end sourcing model, delivering the significant Online growth Plan).
• Own the Strategic Plan and 1 Year Plan. Drive the business strategy process, working alongside the category owners to define their long-term plans and category roles.
• Provide robust financial control of forecasting and planning processes, ensuring there are no surprises during month end cycles and taking any learnings forward to continually improve.

Let's find out about you”

• You will be a graduate (or equivalent) with strong academics and have a professional accounting qualification with post qualified experience.
• You will have a range of communication and influencing styles that you can deploy with your stakeholders and senior members of Asda’s Leadership Team to drive performance and deliver their plans and commitments.
• You will comfortably challenge, confront and solve difficult situations whilst maintaining solid internal and external connections.
• You will bring credibility and integrity to your business area through your commercial awareness and mindset of doing the right thing for our business, colleagues and customers.
• You will bring a balanced view to decision making with credible contribution beyond financial analysis / implications.
• You will have a positive attitude, be keen to develop and be motivated to get the job done, delivering to tight timelines; actively seeking accountability and opportunity.
• Demonstrate an inquisitive approach, an eye for detail and solid financial modelling skills, evolving in line with business and external requirements.

For this role we would require at least 3 days in the Asda House office, Leeds.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.