Commercial Finance Manager - Supplier and Own Brand

Commercial Finance Manager - Supplier and Own Brand

Apply locations Asda House

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 3 Days Ago

Time left to apply: End Date: December 31, 2024 (14 days left to apply)

Job requisition id: R-045496

Job Title

Commercial Finance Manager - Supplier and Own Brand

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

30 December 2024

We've got a fantastic Commercial Finance Manager opportunity, responsible for driving performance improvement in Food. You will work closely with the Trading team, supporting the strategic direction, decision making and insight into commercial performance.

As a team, the focus is to develop and implement Business Intelligence innovations to create value for the business with insight and recommendations to the leadership team. We also play a key role in ensuring we deliver the trading plan through detailed category analysis on sales and promotional performance and active monitoring of gross margin, costs, and inventory. Also, working alongside the commercial team to implement action plans.

Your Role

• You will Business Partner the Food trading team and be an expert on what is happening in Food in Asda and across the wider market, utilising the financial data to drive improvements in sales and through insight. It's important you understand the wider business performance context and own the commercial updates at leadership meetings.
• Own the strategic plan and budget for your area, working alongside the category owners to define their long-term plans and category roles with regular deep dives to understand trends and opportunities.
• Strengthen the performance culture by holding the team accountable for their financial commitments.
• Identify risks and opportunities to support improving our performance and changing direction on underperforming areas.
• Support strategic initiatives as a key member of working groups, supporting on business cases and helping to define suitable performance tracking.

About you

• You'll 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 delivery to plans and commitments.
• You will comfortably challenge, confront and solve difficult situations whilst maintaining solid internal and external connections.
• Be able to 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.
• Be able to bring a balanced view to decision making with credible contribution beyond financial analysis.
• A positive attitude and keen to develop – motivated to get the job done and to deliver 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.

“Everything you’ll love”

• 25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best; the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George – with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving colleagues an average of £700 a year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes – we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.

Plus, much more!

“That’s more like it”

“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.

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• £5,700 company car or car allowance
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking, and many additional rewards.

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.

About us

Asda is Reimagining Retail. It’s hard for anyone to imagine how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with, there are hundreds more you don’t often get to see. In fact, because our business is changing, we're creating new roles all the time! So take the time to look around. Once you’ve had the chance to explore our current open positions, apply to the ones you feel suit you best. And don't forget you can keep an eye on new positions and check how your current applications are progressing by visiting regularly.