Commercial Finance Manager

John Lewis Partnership
About the role

As a Commercial Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role within the Finance team. You will provide influential insight to assist business leaders in making well-informed commercial decisions, and challenge the business to make improvements such as reducing expenditure to maximise profit, improving financial performance and delivering on the Partnership goals. The role focuses on driving business decisions and actions to improve overall financial performance within the John Lewis Customer team. You will be responsible for mitigating risks, maximising opportunities and investing in new capability / propositions. This is a proactive position jointly responsible with Business leaders to develop plans to meet financial targets and ensure leadership understands the financial implications. You will work with Senior Finance Analysts and Finance Analysts to support their development and ensure delivery of outcomes.

• Salary – £61,300 – £89,000.
• Contract type – We are recruiting one 12 month fixed term contract/secondment role for the John Lewis Customer team.
• Working pattern/flexible working – The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, allowing a mix of office and home working based on personal needs and business requirements.
• Location – The role will be based at our Pimlico Head Office.

Key responsibilities

• You will be accountable for the financial performance of your assigned business area-driving performance through performance insight, commercial analysis and financial expertise to support the Partnership Plan.
• You will ensure that recommendations to improve financial performance are acted upon by senior stakeholders, driving incremental value.
• You will be an expert in your business area, including the financial context, wider market and competitor context, delivering high-quality verbal and written outputs to communicate insight, recommendations and influence decisions with stakeholders at all levels.

Essential skills/experience

• Accounting qualification with post-qualified experience in a similar business environment.
• Proactive and collaborative approach, strategic thinking, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with and influence stakeholders.
• Highly organised, structured and analytical with the ability to analyse complex data sets to derive meaningful insights for decision making.

Desirable skills/experience

• Retail or FMCG experience.

The partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never knowingly undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can thrive. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note

It’s important to note that some roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process. Any DBS checks will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some roles.

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications; we recommend applying early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability, please contact us as soon as possible. We support flexible working and may offer flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts where possible; discuss this with the hiring manager during your interview.