Overall Job Purpose: Business Partner the Customer Marketing, Retail and Corporate teams, providing Financial Planning & Analysis and insight for both internal finance requests and to the wider commercial marketing team. Support the Senior Finance Manager. Key

Responsibilities:
Planning and performance monitoring Own reporting for Customer Marketing, Corporate, Retail and Events (including sales, trend analysis, KPIs and campaign contribution): provide explanations of performance against budget and highlight future risks and opportunities Own customer base and conversion reporting, forecasting and budgeting, including the development of reporting suites in business objects Support business partners to produce the annual budget and re-forecasts, whilst providing challenge for new initiatives and changes to campaigns Provide meaningful analysis and collaborate to produce insight Understand the drivers of current performance Use internal and external information to extrapolate future performance based on scenario planning Work with business partners to turn analysis into value adding insight Provide ad-hoc analysis when required to support the wider Finance team Provide analysis for campaign test results to drive future revenue and profit growth Assist in developing strategic objectives Support business partner contract negotiations including forecast profitability model Develop and monitor the delivery of strategic initiatives Experience: Experience of finance business partnering within FMCG / Retail /Direct Marketing business or a complex organisation Strong ability to analyse and drive initiatives Highly advanced Excel modelling skills, with experience of handling large data sets Business Objects Personal Qualities and Skills: Commercially intuitive with strong business partnering and communication skills Ability to challenge, have their voice heard and provide insight to all levels of the business Highly numerate with strong analytical capability