Senior Finance Business Partner - Digital

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Overview

We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

We are seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to support the Group Digital & Ecommerce Director and COE leadership team across Ecommerce, Marketplace & Retail Media. You will play a key role in developing the e-commerce business performance finance activities and will be able to interpret and present financial information to key stakeholders to a high standard, providing value add advice and challenge.

You will advise, challenge, support and connect with senior group stakeholders. A key element of the role is to develop finance deliverables to best understand the financial performance of our channels across our banners (B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama etc).

They will need to raise standards across all financial decision areas taking a forward-looking, commercial and value focused approach to assist in the articulation of options and the optimisation of financial outcomes.

What's the job?

• Business Partner the Digital Leadership Team, playing a key role in the success of implementing the Digital strategy:
• Launch, scale and expand our Marketplace offer across our Banners in a profitable way. Leading the marketplace P&L, understanding performance and driving action.
• Support the launch of our Retail media, understanding financial performance
• Understand the drivers of channel profitability by banner to communicate performance and allow actions to be taken to enhance future profitability.
• Work with key Digital functions and Banners to develop and improve our group reporting of e-commerce, providing commercial challenge as required.
• Ensure Digital costs (plans and actuals) are visible and clear to key partners and proactively manage to targets.
• Support the Digital Leadership team in the strategic long term plan process, informing Digital guidance to Banners and supporting the Group Digital and Ecommerce director in delivering the Digital LTP to the Group Exec

What you'll bring

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Significant business-facing or commercial finance experience with business partnering background. Comfortable building relationships with senior stakeholders and challenging where appropriate.
• Dynamic individual with the ability to analyse complex data with sound rationale and intellectual rigour
• Strong people management experience
• Ability to interpret financial information and deploy it effectively across the organisation
• Proactive approach to driving efficiencies and improvements across teams with a proven history of change management.
• Positive attitude, paired with a strong analytical approach
• Able to work with ambiguity & be comfortable with change
• Experience working in a matrix environment

Be Customer Focused - constantly improving our customers' experience

• I listen to my customers

• I use available data to help make decisions

Be Human - acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing

• I am respectful

Be Curious - thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas

• I try new things and share my learnings

Be Agile - working with trust, pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative

• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20

Be Inclusive - acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship

• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn

Be Accountable - championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions

• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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