Poundland & Dealz
Finance Business Partner
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Join us here at Poundland & Dealz as a Finance Business Partner
About the Role
Based at our Walsall office and offering the flexibility for hybrid working, as a Finance Business Partner, you will partner with our commercial team to turn financial and operational information into clear, actionable insight. You will identify risks and opportunities, constructively challenge assumptions and help teams achieve their performance targets and strategic objectives.
This is a broad and influential business-partnering role. You will embed yourself within the areas you support, building trusted relationships and providing the financial guidance, commercial challenge and independent perspective needed to assess opportunities and make confident, well-informed decisions.
Key Responsibilities
With autonomy and trust to make an impact from day one, you will:
- Develop a deep understanding of the business, its strategic priorities and the operational and commercial factors that influence performance.
- Build strong relationships across the organisation and become a trusted financial partner to senior leaders and operational teams.
- Provide supportive but constructive challenge, helping stakeholders navigate competing priorities and agree the best course of action.
- Represent Finance at senior management and strategic meetings, presenting clear, focused and actionable insight.
- Translate complex financial information into accessible recommendations that enable timely, well-informed decisions.
- Lead a consistent and appropriately challenging weekly, monthly and quarterly performance-review process.
- Deliver high-quality analysis that moves beyond reporting what has happened, instead explaining why it has happened and what action should follow.
- Lead robust budgeting, forecasting and financial-planning processes for your areas of responsibility.
- Support the development of meaningful category-level profit and loss reporting across relevant income and cost lines.
- Develop financial models and business cases for strategic plans, investments and commercial opportunities.
- Lead post-investment reviews to identify what worked, what did not and why, using the findings to improve future decisions and, where appropriate, reset expectations or recommend corrective action.
- Continually improve the quality, consistency and efficiency of financial reporting and performance reviews.
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What We're Looking For
We are looking for a Finance Business Partner with proven experience gained in a large and complex commercial organisation. Previous experience in the retail sector is preferred but not essential. You will be able to demonstrate strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex or loosely defined business questions into clear reporting, meaningful insight and practical recommendations. You will have the gravitas and relation-building skills to engage, influence and constructively challenge. Superb Excel and Power BI skills are vital to success, and you will ideally be fully or part ACCA/CIMA qualified.
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What We Offer
We offer rewards that go beyond the payslip, including:
- 10% employee discount card with increased discount events over the year.
- Celebrate your birthday, you’ll get an extra day off for your birthday.
- Holidays, 33 days a year inc banks.
- Single private medical cover.
- Annual bonus scheme, with the opportunity to earn up to 15% of your base salary.
- Car allowance of £500 per month.
- Free parking onsite.
- Pension scheme for your future, with up to 5% employer matched contributions.
- We put wellbeing first through our partnership with Retail Trust which gives you and your family access to a fantastic range of resources.
- My Staff Shop, giving you an amazing number of discounts and shopping vouchers.
- For those unexpected moments, our partnership with stream enables you to access up to 50% of your monthly earned wages early, along with savings and financial advice.
- Training and development opportunities, we want you to grow your career with us, be that through one of the qualifications we offer or internal programmes, this role can be just the first step.
- Plus, life assurance, loyalty service awards and more.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
We’re committed and proud to our inclusive culture, and that starts with the recruitment and selection process. If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please do share this with us on your application form and we’ll make every effort to meet your needs.
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