Superdrug
Finance Manager Trading
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đź“ŤLocation: Croydon
đź•’Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
đź’·Salary: Competitive
🎉Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
📅Here's The Exciting Bit… A Day Includes
This is a high-profile senior role within the Commercial Finance team. The primary deliverable is to provide and analyse financial information to generate insight and recommendations that support value-added decision-making, partnering closely with the Trading, Merchandising and Supply Chain teams to drive performance, support strategic initiatives, and ensure robust financial control. The job holder will demonstrate strong commercial acumen, excellent reporting capability and confident use of financial systems. The role includes responsibility for a direct report, so the successful candidate must be capable of coaching and mentoring.
đź“ťKey Responsibilities
- Being the finance owner of all elements of company stock, business partnering with the business to provide financial analysis, insight and support. This includes analysis of stock targets and optimum levels, slow moving stock, and maintenance of the stock provision calculation
- Owning and managing all the financial processes and controls relevant to Stock, including month end accounting and supporting KPIs as well as providing and presenting financial updates to senior stakeholders
- Overseeing the production and delivery of weekly and monthly reports including KPIs and performance commentary
- Supporting the Cosmetics & Fragrance Trading teams enabling understanding of sales and margin performance, and helping the company to achieve Supplier Income and promotional retros targets
- Leading financial support for strategic trading projects and tenders with robust financial modelling and analysis
- Leading the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes for stock and relevant trading areas
- Identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance reporting, controls, and efficiency
- Providing ad-hoc analysis and support to the wider Finance function and leadership teams
- Managing, coaching and developing a Finance Analyst
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This Job Is a Good Fit For You If
- Can convert financial performance into compelling commercial narratives tailored for senior stakeholders
- Able to identify issues and use initiative to bring structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous financial problems
- Build strong, influential relationships and act as a trusted advisor
- Enjoy working cross-functionally across trading, merchandising and supply chain teams
- Enjoy challenging assumptions and driving continuous improvement
- Are proactive and comfortable working at pace in a dynamic retail environment with strong organisation skills and can meet tight deadlines
- Can combine strong analytical capability with sound commercial judgement dealing with large volumes of data with a high level of accuracy
- Are confident coaching and mentoring others, providing clear feedback and supporting development
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What You’ll Need
We’re looking for someone who can combine strong technical finance skills with the confidence to influence and present to senior operational stakeholders.
- 5+ years of finance experience, CIMA/ACCA/ACA preferred
- Strong commercial finance experience, ideally within retail
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across multiple functions
đź’ˇHere's What's In It For You
- 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
- 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
- 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
- Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
- Company pension matching and bonus
- We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
- We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
- Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
- Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
- Come and be part of something special!
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