Commercial Business PartnerYour Impact in this role
* Act as a trusted finance partner to the retail business, supporting both short‐term performance and long‐term strategy.
* Play a key role (leading or supporting as required) in retail forecasting and budgeting, ensuring clear linkage between business results and strategic retail initiatives.
* Develop clear, actionable insights and key insights into variances across forecasts, budgets and actual performance.
* Support strategic retail initiatives including pricing, promotion, margin improvement, cost optimisation, growth opportunities and capital investment.
* Provide detailed margin analytics, including gross margin rate and gross profit dollars by category, channel, and store cohort, and identify "margin pool" opportunities to improve profitability.
* Partner with Trading/Pricing to evaluate pricing, promotions, and markdown effectiveness (ROI and incrementality), including cannibalisation/halo impacts, and translate learnings into actionable recommendations.
* Partner with leaders to develop and assess retail business cases and initiatives ensuring robust assumptions and clear value drivers.
* Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable commercial recommendations.
* Influence and challenge stakeholders constructively to support commercial trade‐offs.
This is a hands‐on commercial role where your analysis will not sit on a slide deck — it will directly shape decisions and outcomes across a growing retail business.
What Makes You a Great Fit
* Proven experience in commercial finance, FP&A, or business partnering roles, ideally within retail, consumer, or fast‐paced, multi‐site environments.
* Strong financial acumen, including end‐to‐end P&L ownership, forecasting, performance analysis, and business case development.
* Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability, with experience using Power BI or similar analytics and reporting tools highly regarded.
* Well‐developed influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear commercial insights and practical recommendations.
* Confidence working with senior stakeholders, with the ability to constructively challenge assumptions and drive commercially focused decision‐making.
* A commercially curious, solutions‐oriented mindset, comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, underpinned by high levels of accountability, integrity, and resilience.
Equal Opportunity and Diversity Statement
Our diversity makes us better. We encourage applications from people of diverse backgrounds who wish to be part of a culture where everyone can proudly be themselves. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all.
We also aim to hire candidates from the same geographic region (typically within a 80km radius) to strengthen community connections and support local economies, while recognising that we do not prioritize local candidates over others.
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